Duruflé won both the performance prize (1929) and the composition prize (1930) in the annual competition of Les Amis de l'Orgue, a remarkable and never-repeated double.
Performer Biography
Thomas Trotter is a prize-winning concert organist, recognized as one of the UK's most admired performing musicians.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Maurice Duruflé, the composer, claimed not to believe in 'inspiration,' viewing musical creation as a laborious effort of constant revision.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded at 192kHz 24-bit PCM in the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, in March 2020.
Performer Biography
Thomas Trotter, the organist on this recording, was the 14th Organ Scholar at King's College, Cambridge, starting in 1976.
Composer Biography
Maurice Duruflé and his wife, Marie-Madeleine Chevalier, were both seriously injured in a car crash in 1975, effectively ending his career.
Composer Biography
Duruflé was sent to the choir school of Rouen Cathedral at age ten, where he found his vocation as a church musician and fell in love with Gregorian Chant.
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