Jean Guillou

Der XIII. Psalm gilt als eines der großartigsten und zugleich berührendsten Chorstücke Liszts. Die Solopartie ist ein Musterbeispiel für innigsten romantischen Ausdruck und atmet reinsten 'Bel Canto'-...

Kompositionsjahr: 1967

In his 'Art of Fugue' Bach himself introduced a theme based on the four letters of his name: the notes we know as Bb A C B correspond to the German note names B A C H. Since that time, many composers...

Franz Liszt's 'Première Valse oubliée' is known and popular as a subtle and delicately beautiful piece for the piano. This romantic gem has now been arranged by Jean Guillou for the organ in his inimi...

The orchestral suite Symphonic Dances Op. 45 from 1940 is Rachmaninoff's last work. Almost at the same time, he wrote an arrangement of the piece for two pianos which he played with Vladimir Horowitz...

This Toccata Opus 9, an early work dating from 1963, is one of Guillou's most often-played works. This brilliant piece works through three themes whose individual character creates a progressive incre...

Still leading a shadowy existence, Schumann's works for pedal piano are most likely performed on the organ today. This requires, however, that the music is set for the organ in accordance with the ins...

The French composer Jean Guillou (born 1930) has composed a whole series of works for the organ plus a single instrument which are collectively entitled Colloques. This is all that needs to be said on...

In Impulso Jean Guillou regards the flute as a person who appears and asks a short, yet compelling question in front of the public. This question is followed by a statement. And when the question is a...

Jean Guillou is one of todays' most important organ virtuosos and composers. A pupil of Dupré, Duruflé and Messiaen, he embodies the living tradition of French organ music. The concerto L'Ébauche d'un...

Co-incidence is a work that opens onto an anacrusi made of two notes, the main element of everything that will happen. These first two notes falling like two short blasts thrown into space will evolve...

Die Ruhe und innige Tiefe der Stille, ihre grenzenlose Unendlichkeit, die innere Seelenruhe und Leidenschaft des Dichters im Vergessen sowie das unsichtbare Drama der Sehnsucht: all dies versucht die...

Gerard Manley Hopkins was reputed to be a poet of semantic ambiguity and, in the opinion of Guillou, therefore comes closest to the art of musical expression. Guillou has already 'translated' 'Peace'...

Jean Guillou is one of the most important organ virtuosos and composers of today. A pupil of Dupré, Duruflé and Messiaen, he embodies the living tradition of French organ music.

The French organist and composer Jean Guillou (*1930) calls his own cycle 'Colloque' in which the grand seigneur among the virtuoso organists wants to present an exchange of ideas, while juxtaposing c...

In 1850, on the occasion of a gala performance of 'Der Entfesselte Prometheus' by Herder at the Weimar court theatre, Liszt wrote not only several choral pieces but also an overture which he revised i...

This work with its unusual instrumentation originates in Guillou's conceptual design of the organ for the new concert hall in Tenerife. The composition project came into being when he determined the s...

This work with its unusual instrumentation originates in Guillou's conceptual design of the organ for the new concert hall in Tenerife. The composition project came into being when he determined the s...

Although the organ clearly represents the centre of the musical action in Jean Guillou's Concerto No. 5 'Le Roi Arthur', the accompanying brass quintet has an important role. Like the noble knights at...

Schlagzeug (2 Spieler): Gongs, Templeblocks, Woodblocks, Becken, Toms, Tamtam