Short Organ Concert #2

Name: Short Organ Concert #2
Telephone: 04 78 95 95 95
Price range: Full price: 12 to 17 €.
Start: 2025-12-20
End: 2025-12-20

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Last updated date : 03/12/2025

Les Petits Concerts d’orgue (The Small Organ Concerts) give young artists on the cusp of brilliant careers the opportunity to perform on the Auditorium stage. It is an invaluable opportunity for them to test themselves in the experience of a large concert hall for the first time.

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Short Organ Concert #2

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Appointed choir organist at the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris in September 2024, Axel de Marnhac had obtained a brilliant Master's degree in organ from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris three months earlier. To celebrate this achievement, he gave a recital entirely devoted to the works of Maurice Duruflé on the composer's organ at the Church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris. It was only natural that he should include two pieces by this Normandy-born musician to coincide with the ONL concerts and the exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, which was devoted to the mythical landscapes of Étretat. In this recital, Axel de Marnhac explores the contemporary musical trends of the featured painters, ranging from Impressionism to the 1930s. Drawing a parallel between Debussy's illustrious 'Clair de lune' (1890) and Louis Vierne's equally sublime response (1926), he also pays homage to Saint-Sulpice with a prelude and fugue by Marcel Dupré, another Norman musician who worked on the grand organ for sixty-five years.

Programme:
- Marcel Dupré: Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in A flat major, Op. 36/2
- Louis Vierne: Clair de lune, from Pièces de fantaisie, Op. 53/5
- Claude Debussy: Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque
- Elsa Barraine: Prelude and Fugue No. 1, based on an Israelite prayer song
- Maurice Duruflé: Scherzo, Op. 2
- Maurice Duruflé: Toccata, from Suite, Op. 5

Cast: Axel de Marnhac (organ)