Organ History: Erik Satie and French rarities of the XXth Century - Arturo Sacchetti

Artist: Arturo Sacchetti Album: Organ History: Erik Satie and French rarities of the XXth Century Released: 2001 Label: Arts Catalog N°: 47641 Genre: Classical, Organ File Format: eac_wv_cue_log, covers complete 312MB. mp3 (lame) VBR-245 V0, 120mb T he present installment of Arturo Sacchetti's encyclopedic Organ History survey for Arts Music drops anchor in late-19th/early-20th-century France. It can be argued that the five instrumental sections from Satie's Mass for the Poor that open this recital lose poignancy when shorn of their surrounding vocal movements, although the organ is a perfect instrument for the composer's quirky, instantly identifiable harmonic language. By contrast, D'Indy's Les Vêpres du Commun des Saints, Roussel's Prélude et Fughetta, and Honegger's Deux Pièces pour Orgue make an arid, academic impression. After Wayne Marshall's pulverizing speed through the Pastorale by Roger-Ducasse (Virgin Classics), Sacchetti's rela...