Works For Organ Vol. 2 (Incls '15 Versets sur les Vepres de la Vierge')

Marcel Dupré had a long and busy career as a recitalist, composer, teacher, writer and editor and he exerted enormous influence on all aspects of the organist's art in the early part of this century. Dupré's place in the evolution of twentieth century organ music has yet to be fully understood or appreciated and there are those who would seek to detract from the enormous impact his playing and teaching had on countless students who studied with him. It cannot be ignored that the list of his Premier Prix students at the Paris Conservatoire contains nearly every important twentieth-century French organist and composer, including Marie-Claire Alain, Jean Langlais, Jean Guillou, Jeanne Demessieux, and Olivier Messiaën. Several of his organ works have become recognised as standard repertoire for the instrument, and Dupré was unique in that, like Chopin and Liszt in the nineteenth century, he wrote with the innate understanding of the possibilities of the organ as 'seen' through the hands and feet of a virtuoso performer.