Bach To Notre Dame

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OLIVIER LATRY « Bach to Notre Dame »
"OLIVIER LATRY, the guardian of the great organ of Notre-Dame
From fugues to Fantaisie, Bach's work magnified by Olivier Latry on the great organ of Notre-Dame. Just before the fire.
In the aftermath of the fire that partially devastated Notre-Dame de Paris, all music lovers were worried about the Cavaillé-Coll grand organ, inaugurated in 1868. Miraculously, the instrument reportedly suffered neither from water nor from heat. However, it will be necessary to carefully dismantle and clean its seven thousand nine hundred fifty-two pipes before it can sound again...
The album « Bach to the future », recorded last January by Olivier Latry, one of the three titular organists of the organs of Notre-Dame, has changed in nature.
Before April 15, we admired the intelligence of the program, the taste and refinement of the execution, and Olivier Latry's ability to embrace the paradox, proudly claimed, of playing works associated with Lutheran baroque on an organ from the late 19th century, several times transformed and restored, and installed in a Catholic cathedral.
After the fire, a new more symbolic dimension has emerged: even if the organ and Notre-Dame regained most of their former splendor, this album would remain the ultimate recording of a past that is necessarily gone.
Here is a successful recording now available in remastered reissue."