Secrets of Organ playing contest Week 39

I discovered Jeanne Demessieux music by accident late in 2018 when I, on a whim, ordered her 12 Choral-Preludes on Gregorian Chant Themes, Op. 8 with some Durufle works. All twelve of these pieces are wonderful, but I like to use the Attende Domine Choral Paraphrase quite often as a prelude or offertory because of it's reflective atmosphere. The chant tune is richly harmonized in the upper most voice throughout with fragments of the chant melody appearing in the lower parts frequently. The harmonic language is fairly tonal, but with occasional twentieth century dissonances in to create interest. Near the end, two fragments of the chant are played against each other--one in the left hand on the great manual, and the other in augmentation (twice as slow) in the pedals. The ending of the piece is full of tension as the last two chords slowly resolve one note at a time to the final D major chord over the course of three slow bars. I find the over all effect to be one of reverence and circumspection. I hope that my playing also conveys that feeling.

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It's a great piece and performance! I'm not so familiar with organ literature... is it a well known composer?

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Demessieux die fairly young (I believe at 46). She doesn't have a large repertoire of pieces, but they are all remarkable.
Thank you!

All organ pieces? I have never heard of her...

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I love this piece. I have this on my newly released CD: https://www.jamesfloresorganist.com/silver-celebration/

I also played it for the contest earlier this year. Great playing! Thanks Jeremy.

Love the harmonies and modes in this piece!

I like this, has both a very classic church music feel but has some interesting bits of dissonance that resolve nicely - gives the brain a bit of a tease without venturing too far out of familiar territory. Nice playing as well :) BTW if you are using #sonicgroove tag you might as well use #creativecoin as well, Sonic Groove is part of the Creative Coin umbrella and there is a very high degree of overlap between SONIC holders and Creative Coin holders. Cheers


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Thanks for sharing this nice tune, @jeremyowens9501!

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