The organ in brief
Built for the 1878 World Fair and the Trocadéro concert hall in Paris, this monumental instrument (82 stops and 6,500 pipes) was the “showpiece” of the most renowned organ builder of the time, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll.
– Les Nuits hallucinées
Escaich (Les Nuits hallucinées, Violin Concerto , La Barque solaire)
Thierry Escaich (organ) / Orchestre national de Lyon / Christian Arming et Jun Märkl (cond.)
CD Universal 2011
– Organ Symphony
Saint-Saëns ("Organ" Symphony, Cyprès et Lauriers, Danse macabre)
Vincent Warnier (organ) / Orchestre national de Lyon / Leonard Slatkin (cond.)
CD Naxos 2015
– Fairy Tales
Mussorgsky (Pictures of an Exhibition), Liszt (Concerto pathétique), Tchaikovsky (Sleeping Beauty)
Véra Nikitine (organ) / Katherine Nikitine (piano & organ)
CD Hortus 2017
– Vocalises
Purcell, Handel, Franck, Saint-Saëns, Rachmaninov, Gliere, Puccini, Satie, Piaf, Bernstein, Parker, Jackson, improvisations
Romain Leleu (trumpet) / Thierry Escaich (organ)
CD Aparté 2017
– La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc
Silent movie by Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928)
Karol Mossakowski (improvised accompaniment on the organ)
DVD/Blu-Ray Gaumont 2017
1878: Palais du Trocadéro
1939: Palais de Chaillot
1977: Auditorium de Lyon
Specifications
The works premiered on the instrument