Quentin Guérillot - Lefébure-Wély: Noël sous l'Empire (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 64:55 minutes | 1,15 GB
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles, Official Digital Download
French organ music under Napoleon and the Restoration is an overlooked period in musical history, inheriting the glories of classical organ and heralding the great romantic organ music. This pivotal time, teeming with great performers - most of them improvisers - counted Isaac-Francois Lefebure-Wely among its masters, who presided over the prestigious Eglise Saint-Roch from 1805. In 1823 he published a collection of 34 Noels, inspired by those of his predecessors yet deeply rooted in their time, imbued with the memory of the Incroyables and the Merveilleuses. These extremely popular works for nativity ring out in true splendour from the organ of the Chapelle Royale, shimmering with the mysteries of Christmas through Quentin Guerillot's generous, familiar style.