Jean Guillou

Since Bach's Trio Sonatas, this form of playing with 2 obbligato parts and pedal has been among the most important and elaborate tasks of every organist, the art of polyphonic playing. Jean Guillou ha...

Schlagzeug (2 Spieler): Gongs, Templeblocks, Woodblocks, Becken, Toms, Tamtam

Handel's 'Alla Hornpipe' from 'Water Music' is one of the best-known pieces of music from the Baroque era. With its rich melody and harmony and the inimitable tonal splendour of the Baroque era, this...

This organ fantasy was originally commissioned by the famous Japanese actor Masaru Sekine for his production of the Shakespeare work. Jean Guillou later assembled the various parts to form a musical p...

Jean Guillou is one of the most significant contemporary organ virtuosos and composers for the instrument. A student of Dupré, Duruflé and Messiaen, he is the personification of the great and living F...

Jean Guillou is one of the most eminent organists of our time. His compositions make use of the full range of colours which the organ is capable of producing and handle the instrument with virtuoso sk...

As its title indcates, this is a miniature symphony, its structure compacted as much as possible. The classical form is respected, dwon to the smallest details, so that the various development section...

Jean Guillou, geb. am 18. April 1930 in Angers, gehört zu den bedeutenden Organisten der Gegenwart. Er studierte in Paris bei Dupré, Duruflé und Messiaen und wirkte als Professor in Lissabon, Berlin u...

This is the name given to the ancient tales and legends of Scandinavia, mostly drawn up in Iceland. The term itself is of Germanic origin, form the verb 'sagen' which means to say, to recount. The tit...

Julien Gracq's novel Au château d'Argolo includes a chapter in which one of the heroes, Herminien, discovers a chapel hidden deep within a forest. Soon ... through the branches, twisted in fantastic a...

Though the work bearing this title is a portrait of childhood, it is a childhood quite different from the purely gameplaying and dreamlike childhood that is customarily represented. The childhood desc...

In his series of works Colloques, the French organist Jean Guillou composed 'Conversations' since 1956 in which the organ and a solo instrument hold a conversation on the same level. For the tenth wor...

Jean Guillou is one of the most significant contemporary organ virtuosos and composers for the instrument. A student of Dupré, Duruflé and Messiaen, he is the personification of the great and living F...