Jean Guillou: Partituras medio

Colloque, colloquy or symposium, is a term used in reference to Erasmus, but of course also to Plato and, closer to us, Paul Valéry. In this piece, instead of characters who speak to each other, there...

Jean Guillou is regarded as an important organist and composer. As such, he has created a comprehensive oeuvre, especially for solo instrument(s) and organ, including Intermezzo Op. 17 composed in Ham...

A musical instrument has its own personality, with a voice that can provoke reactions, give rise to dramatic impulses and awaken colours and moods; it is capable of articulating and responding to all...

La "Première Valse oubliée" de Franz Liszt es conocida y popular como una pieza para piano sutil y delicadamente bella. Esta joya romántica ha sido arreglada por Jean Guillou para órgano a su manera i...

Jean Guillou is one of the most eminent organists of our time. His compositions make use of the full range of colours which the organ is capable of producing and handle the instrument with virtuoso sk...

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...

In his series of works Colloques, the French organist Jean Guillou composed 'Conversations' since 1956 in which the organ and a solo instrument hold a conversation on the same level. For the tenth wor...

Julien Gracq's novel Au château d'Argolo includes a chapter in which one of the heroes, Herminien, discovers a chapel hidden deep within a forest. Soon ... through the branches, twisted in fantastic a...

'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...

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, born 18 April 1930 in Angers, studied organ at the Conservatoire in Paris with Dupré, Duruflé and Messiaen and is a leading organ vituoso. 'Alice in Organ Land' for Organ and Narrator is...