Jean Guillou

Jean Guillou, geb. am 18. April 1930 in Angers, gehört zu den bedeutenden Organisten der Gegenwart. Er studierte in Paris bei Dupré, Duruflé und Messiaen und wirkte als Professor in Lissabon, Berlin u...

This is the name given to the ancient tales and legends of Scandinavia, mostly drawn up in Iceland. The term itself is of Germanic origin, form the verb 'sagen' which means to say, to recount. The tit...

Julien Gracq's novel Au château d'Argolo includes a chapter in which one of the heroes, Herminien, discovers a chapel hidden deep within a forest. Soon ... through the branches, twisted in fantastic a...

Jean Guillou, born 18 April 1930 in Angers, studied organ at the Conservatoire in Paris with Dupré, Duruflé and Messiaen and is a leading organ vituoso. 'Alice in Organ Land' for Organ and Narrator is...

Der französische Komponist Jean Guillou (geb. 1930) hat eine ganze Reihe von Werken für Orgel plus Instrument komponiert, die alle den Serientitel 'Colloques' tragen. Damit ist alles über die Intentio...

The extensive work for 12-part mixed chamber choir plays with words and vocalises as well as with polyphony and homophony. Large general rests create a very special tension. This work requires well tr...

The extensive work for 12-part mixed chamber choir plays with words and vocalises as well as with polyphony and homophony. Large general rests create a very special tension. This work requires well tr...

Der XIII. Psalm gilt als eines der großartigsten und zugleich berührendsten Chorstücke Liszts. Die Solopartie ist ein Musterbeispiel für innigsten romantischen Ausdruck und atmet reinsten 'Bel Canto'-...

Kompositionsjahr: 1967

In his 'Art of Fugue' Bach himself introduced a theme based on the four letters of his name: the notes we know as Bb A C B correspond to the German note names B A C H. Since that time, many composers...

A transcription justifies itself only by forgetting that it is a transcription and by incorporating the 'new' instrument into the work, as it were, Jean Guillou writes in the preface to this edition.E...

La "Première Valse oubliée" di Franz Liszt è conosciuta e apprezzata come un pezzo sottile e delicatamente bello per il pianoforte. Questo gioiello romantico è stato ora arrangiato da Jean Guillou per...

Nel 1850, in occasione di una rappresentazione di gala di "Der Entfesselte Prometheus" di Herder al teatro di corte di Weimar, Liszt scrisse non solo diversi pezzi corali, ma anche un'ouverture che ri...

This Toccata Opus 9, an early work dating from 1963, is one of Guillou's most often-played works. This brilliant piece works through three themes whose individual character creates a progressive incre...

Jean Guillou did not change a single note for this arrangement. He just distributed the different parts to the manuals and the pedal in a way that guarantees a clear and varied registration in harmony...

Orpheus is one of 12 symphonic poems composed by Franz Liszt between 1848 and 1858. Liszt regarded these compositions as representing a higher form of musical creation. Their genesis in what he descri...

Orpheus is one of 12 symphonic poems composed by Franz Liszt between 1848 and 1858. Liszt regarded these compositions as representing a higher form of musical creation. Their genesis in what he descri...

The third movement (Allegro molto vivace) from Tchaikovsky's 'Symphonie pathétique' is - though not specially designated as such - a typical scherzo and, what is more, actually one of the most brillia...

The French composer Jean Guillou (born 1930) has composed a whole series of works for the organ plus a single instrument which are collectively entitled Colloques. This is all that needs to be said on...