An episode of Breathtaking – modern music for the instrument with the longest breath of all: the organ.
In The Last Century, music of French composer and organ player Marcel Dupré on the organs of the St. Ouen in Rouen (Ben van Oosten) and the St. Marienkirche in Berlin. The recording from Berlin is a live recording of Dupré himself on the Wagner-Kern organ.
Marcel Dupré: Evocation op.37 (1941)
02:04 Moderato
10:43 Adagio con tenerezza
20:00 Allegro deciso
Ben van Oosten, St. Ouen in Rouen (Cavaillé-Coll)
Marcel Dupré: Improvisation (live recording, 1953)
28:05 Allegro
33:58 Andante
40:53 Scherzo
47:23 Finale
Marcel Dupré, St.Marienkirche in Berlin (Wagner-Kern)
52:05 Max Reger – prelude in D Major, op.65 no 7 (1902)
Piet Kee, Protestantse Bavo in Haarlem (Müller)