On December 9, the last of some 8,000 pipes from the great organ of Notre-Dame left the Cathedral, marking the end of a spectacular four-month removal project, which required eleven organ builders.
Fifteen days later, Olivier Latry entered another “cathedral of sound”, to shut himself up there for three days.
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Alone in the immense empty vessel of the Philharmonie de Paris, facing the thick and mysterious forest of pine, beech, tin and lead from his organ suspended several tens of meters above his head, the Co-owner of the organ of Notre-Dame has shaped, for seventy-two hours, the sound worlds that nourish his latest album:
Inspirations
, to be released tomorrow by La Dolce Volta.
A fascinating Lisztian journey into the contrasting universe of the orchestral organ.
Ranging from the languor of a tender "dream of love", to the chirping of a sermon to the birds of Saint-François d'Assise, more naturalistic than mystical ...
From the father's explosion of pain
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