Ravel and Debussy on the Organ 2024-2025
From Couperin to Robin, discover French organ music in original organ works as well as transcriptions. While Ravel and Debussy never composed for this instrument, their music, full of subtle colours and timbres, will resound with splendour on the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique.
From Couperin to Robin, discover French organ music in original organ works as well as transcriptions. While Ravel and Debussy never composed for this instrument, their music, full of subtle colours and timbres, will resound with splendour on the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique.
Artists
Jean-Baptiste Robin, organ
The Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique was generously offered to the OSM by Mrs. Jacqueline Desmarais.
Programme
Claude Debussy, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (transcr. J.-B. Robin, 11 min.)
Charles-Marie Widor, Symphony no. 6, op. 42, no. 2: I. Allegro (9 min.)
Maurice Ravel, Ma mère l’Oye, excerpts (transcr. J.-B. Robin, 9 min.)
Jean-Baptiste Robin, Chant du Ténéré (5 min.)
Louis Vierne, Suite no. 2, op. 53: VI. Toccata (5 min.)
Intermission (20 min)
François Couperin, Messe pour les couvents
Maurice Ravel, Le tombeau de Couperin (transcr. J.-B. Robin)
Jean-Baptiste Robin
OrganJean-Baptiste Robin’s appointment as Organist of France’s Chapelle royale in the Palace of Versailles led to his enviable and distinguished place in a long line of royal organists and court musicians, such as Couperin, Marchand, and Daquin. Robin’s playing certainly matches the opulence and grandeur of that world-renowned venue. His frequent performance tours include recitals in 20 European countries, as well as in Russia, Israel, Asia (Japan and South Korea), Canada, and more than half of the fifty United States of America. Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished French organists, educators, and composers of his generation with over 150 new works to his credit, Robin also serves as Professor of Organ at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional of Versailles.
