Notre-Dame à Saanen – Olivier Latry
Chamber Music
Sunday, 28 July 2019
6 pm, Saanen Church
Is there a more prestigious organ than that of Notre-Dame in Paris? By inviting Olivier Latry, co-titular organist there since 1985, it is a little as if we were moving – for an evening – the power of the iconic cathedral’s magnificent Cavaillé-Coll into the surroundings, albeit more modest but nevertheless as welcoming, of the St Maurice church in Saanen.
With a programme aimed to demonstrate all that such an instrument is capable of giving, both in the registers of harmony (skilful counterpoint of the German organists) and melody (brilliant frescos of the French masters).
Olivier Latry, Organ (Notre-Dame de Paris)
on the organ of the Mauritiuskirche Saanen
| Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly (1785-1858) | |
| Fantasy and Fugue in B-flat Major | 5' |
| Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) | |
| «Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele», Choral BWV 654 | 8' |
| Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 (after the piano version by Franz Liszt) | 12' |
| Robert Schumann (1810-1856) | |
| 4th & 5th Fugues on the Name B-A-C-H | 8' |
| Franz Liszt (1811-1886) | |
| Prelude and Fugue on the Name B-A-C-H (version by Jean Guillou) | 10' |
| Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) | |
| «Marche du veilleur de nuit» from «Memento Bach» | 4' |
| Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) | |
| Prelude, Op. 29 No. 1 | 4' |
| Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 – 1921) | |
| Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major, Op. 99 No. 3 | 8' |
| Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) | |
| Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582 | 15' |
| 80' | |
| CHF 125/105/65/40 |