Charles Maxtone-Smith - Cinquième Symphonie: Organ music by Vierne, Tournemire and Duruflé

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Charles Maxtone-Smith - Cinquième Symphonie: Organ music by Vierne, Tournemire and Duruflé Charles Maxtone-Smith

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Release date: Aug 21, 2026
Catalogue number: AF016
Barcode: 5061115741627
Format: CD

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The early twentieth century was a period of enormous innovation and inventiveness in French organ music.

On this album, Charles Maxtone-Smith brings together some of its finest treasures by three titans of the organ repertoire, namely Louis Vierne, Charles Tournemire and Maurice Duruflé, making full use of the resources of Buckfast Abbey’s Ruffatti instrument.

Vierne’s tumultuous Cinquième Symphonie explores chromaticism through his vivid imagining of two overarching themes which coalesce at the end into a triumphal conclusion. Charles Tournemire evokes the beating heart of French mysticism with his sensuous colour and harmony in an improvisation, later transcribed, on the Marian hymn Ave maris stella.

Vierne’s carefully controlled musical forms and Tournemire’s evocative expression are synthesised perfectly in Maurice Duruflé’s Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié, whose earth-shattering beauty and power celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

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Track List:

1. Symphony No. 5 in A Minor, Op. 47: I. Grave
2. Symphony No. 5 in A Minor, Op. 47: II. Allegro molto marcato
3. Symphony No. 5 in A Minor, Op. 47: III. Tempo di scherzo ma non troppo vivo
4. Symphony No. 5 in A Minor, Op. 47: IV. Larghetto
5. Symphony No. 5 in A Minor, Op. 47: V. Final. Allegro moderato
6. Cinq Improvisations: Fantaisie-Improvisation sur l'"Ave Maris Stella" (Transcribed by Maurice Duruflé)
7. Prélude sur l'Introït de l'Épiphanie, Op. 13
8. Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié sur le thème du "Veni Creator", Op. 4: I. Prélude
9. Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié sur le thème du "Veni Creator", Op. 4: II. Adagio
10. Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié sur le thème du "Veni Creator", Op. 4: III. Choral varié
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