Word: cochereau
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...Carnegie's new Rodgers really worth all that time and money? Emphatically yes. Fox's recital was merely the first of an inaugural series this season featuring such other eminent organists as Pierre Cochereau, Fernando Germani and Claire Coci. More important, perhaps, the new organ will permit performances of a sizable repertory of neglected works for orchestra and organ-notably the Saint-Saens "Organ" Symphony, the Poulenc Organ Concerto, and the concertos of Handel and Haydn...
Vierne: Symphony No. 2 for Organ (Pierre Cochereau; London). Music by the late member of the French school of "symphonic" organists (he died at the console in 1937) founded by César Frank. The music is pretentious and harmonically shifty but has a faded fascination. It is played on the wonderful organ that Vierne played for 37 years, in Notre Dame Cathedral ; its stops range from cheese-grater harshness to buttery smoothness...
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