Torvald Toren – Durufle & Dupre: Organ Music (2015) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

Torvald Torén, one of the most notable Swedish organists of his time, performed a vast amount of organ repertoire and is considered a foremost interpreter of French Romantic symphonic music. This double album compiles selections from previously released ’70s and ’80s recordings dedicated to both Marcel Dupré, considered the greatest organ composer of the 20th century, as well as Maurice Duruflé. Torén studied with Duruflé in Paris and had the unique opportunity to learn from the composer himself.

This record of Maurice Duruflé’s great organ works, begins with another of the greatest masterpieces of 20th-century French organ literature: Symphonie-Passion by Maurice Dupré, a work central to the same intensively creative period as Duruflé belonged to. Duruflé himself raises a grandiose memorial to his colleague Jehan Alain, who fell in the World War II. We also hear his first organ work, Scherzo, Op.2. The whole is played by TorvaldTorén – one of Scandinavia’s most eminent interpreters of the French organ music – in a recording which bears the unmistakable signature of sound engineer Bertil Alving.

Tracklist:

Suite, Op 5
1. I. Prelude 08:02
2. II. Sicilienne 05:49
3. III. Toccata 08:04

4. Prelude, Adagio et Choral varie sur le theme du Veni Creator, Op. 4 21:07

Symphonie-Passion, Op 23
5. I. Le monde dans l’attente du Sauveur 06:23
6. II. Nativite 07:45
7. III. Crucifixion 09:04
8. IV. Resurrection 05:46

Sur le nom d’Alain, Op. 7
9. Prelude 05:45
10. Fugue 04:52

11. Scherzo, Op. 2 05:39

Personnel:
Torvald Torén, organ

Digitally remastered

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