(Sept Chorals - Poèmes d'orgue pour les sept paroles du Xrist)
Martin Jean, organ
Newberry Memorial Organ, Woolsey Hall, Yale University

Tournemire's rarely recorded, monumental Seven Last Words employs a dense, French late-Romantic style that makes up a musical "program," dramatically depicting the phrases uttered by Christ in his final hours. Featured performer at the 2004 and 2006 AGO conventions, Martin Jean is Professor of organ at Yale University and Director of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

Tournemire: The Seven Last Words of Christ
I. Pater, dimite illis nasciunt enim quid faciunt
II. Hodie mecum eris in Paradiso
III. Mulier, ecce filius tuus. Ecce Mater tua
IV. Eli, eli, lamma sabacthani
V. Sitio
VI. Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum
VII. Consummatum est

 

Jean Langlais:

     Trois Paraphrases Grégoriennes
     Mors et resurrectio
Tournemire: Choral Improvisation sur le "Victimae paschali," reconstituted by Maurice Duruflé