Dupré: In memoriam Tomasz Głuchowski

• Marcel Dupré (1886 - 1971): Vêpres du commun des fêtes de la Sainte Vierge, Op. 18 (Excerpts):
• 1 Dupré: Vêpres du commun des fêtes de la Sainte Vierge, Op. 18 (Excerpts): No. 6, Ave Maris Stella. When the Salutation Gabriel Had Spoken 01:19
• 2 Dupré: Vêpres du commun des fêtes de la Sainte Vierge, Op. 18 (Excerpts): No. 7, Ave Maris Stella. Jesus Tender Mother, Make Thy Supplication 01:54
• 3 Dupré: Vêpres du commun des fêtes de la Sainte Vierge, Op. 18 (Excerpts): No. 8, Ave Maris Stella. So Now as We Journey, Aid Our Weak Endeavor 02:31
• 4 Dupré: Vêpres du commun des fêtes de la Sainte Vierge, Op. 18 (Excerpts): No. 9, Ave Maris Stella. Amen (Finale) 02:06
• 4 Pièces, Op. 19:
• 5 Dupré: 4 Pièces, Op. 19: No. 2, Cortège et litanie 06:05
• Symphonie-Passion, Op. 23:
• 6 Dupré: Symphonie-Passion, Op. 23: I. Le Monde dans l’attente du Sauveur 06:59
• 7 Dupré: Symphonie-Passion, Op. 23: II. Nativité 09:10
• 8 Dupré: Symphonie-Passion, Op. 23: III. Crucifixion 09:14
• 9 Dupré: Symphonie-Passion, Op. 23: IV. Résurrection 06:34
• Lamento, Op. 24:
• 10 Dupré: Lamento, Op. 24 07:06
• Entrée, canzona et sortie for Organ, Op. 62:
• 11 Dupré: Entrée, canzona et sortie for Organ, Op. 62: No. 1, Entrée 02:42
• 12 Dupré: Entrée, canzona et sortie for Organ, Op. 62: No. 2, Canzona 02:21
• 13 Dupré: Entrée, canzona et sortie for Organ, Op. 62: No. 3, Sortie 02:57
• Total Runtime 01:00:58

Info for Dupré: In memoriam

Quasi as a supplement to the Dupré year 2021 (135th birthday, 50th year of death), the new CD recording of the Polish organist Tomasz Głuchowski reached us at the beginning of this year. Recorded in March 2021 at the New Forum for Music in Wrocław, it includes works from three different creative periods of Dupré. It begins with the four versettas on "Ave maris stella" from the 15 versettas opus 18, composed in 1919 when Dupré was substituting for the ailing Louis Vierne at the organ of Notre-Dame in Paris.

The central block of the program is formed by three works from the period immediately following, beginning in 1920, when Dupré increasingly concentrated on his international concert career. For example, the Symphonie-Passion recorded here was written as a series of improvisations during his 1924 tour of America, which Dupré worked out and notated on the train on the way to the next concert venue following the respective concerts.

The program concludes with the late work Entrée, Canzona et Sortie from 1967, whose tonal language and compositional technique testify to a new clarity in Dupré's oeuvre. Despite, or perhaps because of, the virtuosity receding into the second row, this late work is rarely heard.

The recording has been nominated for the Opus Klassik Award 2023 in the category 'Instrumentalist of the Year'.

Tomasz Gluchowski, organ of the National Forum of Music Wroclaw, Klais-Orgelbau

Tomasz Głuchowski
organist, harpsichordist, improviser, gregorianist, doctor of arts. Titular organist of the Dominican Church in Wrocław. He works as an adjunct professor in the Department of Church Music at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. A certified teacher of harpsichord and organ at the Wrocław Comprehensive Music School of the 1st and 2nd degree. He conducts courses in improvisation and organ music interpretation in Poland and abroad, as well as lectures on organ music, organology and Gregorian chant. Consultant of the Centre for Artistic Education. Juror of national organ and piano competitions. Consultant on organ restoration and revitalisation projects. Recognised specialist in historic tuning and tempering.

Curator of organs at the National Forum of Music and programme manager of organ concert series. Permanent collaborator of the Symphony Orchestra of the National Forum of Music in Wrocław and other ensembles of the institution. Co-founder and artistic director of Wrocław's early music ensemble Ars Concordiae, member of ensemble Sanssouci - Opole Philharmonic's baroque ensemble. He has over a dozen albums of organ and chamber music to his credit.

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