Jean Guillou

Though the work bearing this title is a portrait of childhood, it is a childhood quite different from the purely gameplaying and dreamlike childhood that is customarily represented. The childhood desc...

Jean Guillou gehört zu den führenden Orgelkomponisten der Gegenwart. Seine bisher einzige Komposition für Chor a cappella entstand im Februar 2010 und wurde anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstags am 18. Ap...

Jean Guillou gehört zu den führenden Orgelkomponisten der Gegenwart. Seine bisher einzige Komposition für Chor a cappella entstand im Februar 2010 und wurde anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstags am 18. Ap...

A transcription justifies itself only by forgetting that it is a transcription and by incorporating the 'new' instrument into the work, as it were, Jean Guillou writes in the preface to this edition.E...

The third movement (Allegro molto vivace) from Tchaikovsky's 'Symphonie pathétique' is - though not specially designated as such - a typical scherzo and, what is more, actually one of the most brillia...

Orpheus is one of 12 symphonic poems composed by Franz Liszt between 1848 and 1858. Liszt regarded these compositions as representing a higher form of musical creation. Their genesis in what he descri...

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...

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...

'Augure' is not about looking into the future. This piece does not attempt to conjure up omens; instead, it describes figures that may subsequently be interpreted in the listener's mind. The richest o...

'Augure' is not about looking into the future. This piece does not attempt to conjure up omens; instead, it describes figures that may subsequently be interpreted in the listener's mind. The richest o...

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 organ fantasy was originally commissioned by the famous Japanese actor Masaru Sekine for his production of the Shakespeare work. Jean Guillou later assembled the various parts to form a musical p...