Edouard Batiste: Organ Works

Diego Innocenzi (organ)

Edouard Batiste (1820-1876)
Offertoires op. 10, 23, 27, 28, 33, 36, 38, 39, 40 - Elévations op. 5 no. 2, op. 23 - Communions op. 4, 28, 29
Transcriptions of movements from Beethoven Symphonies op. 30, 31, 32, 33 - Grand Offertoire (sur un thème de la Kreutzer-Sonate de Beethoven) op. 35 - Marche solennelle de Hamlet (Ambroise Thomas)

This double SACD album offers two world premieres: rediscovered organ works by Edouard Batiste (1820-1876) played on an outstanding 4-manual French symphonic instrument (1857) that has never been recorded before: the Merklin & Schütze organ of Murcia cathedral (Spain). Edouard Batiste who was called an "organ tamer" was one of the most famous French virtuosos in the 19th century. He worked as an advisor for the Merklin & Schütze organ company and inaugurated many of their new instruments. He himself was titular organist of the Saint-Eustache church in Paris. The recently restored instrument of Murcia cathedral, which had been unplayable for over 30 years, is almost contemporary and very similar to the Ducroquet organ the composer
used to play.
Diego Innocenzi, titular organist of the Van den Heuvel organ of the Victoria Hall in Geneva, is well known to Aeolus' customers: he already performs on the two highly recommended albums with music for voice and organ by César Franck.

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