This recording features the complete works for organ and trumpet by Jean Langlais, with each collection of pieces differing in character and style.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Jean Langlais' compositional style combines elements of Gregorian, Baroque, and modern music, characterized by strong expressiveness and rich harmonic texture.
Composer Biography
Jean Langlais, a French composer and organist, lost his sight at the age of two due to untreated glaucoma but pursued his passion for music.
Cultural Impact
Langlais' work is considered a milestone in the 20th-century organ repertoire and he is remembered for overcoming blindness, turning his condition into a source of inspiration.
Composer Biography
Jean Langlais served as the titular organist at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Montmartre, Paris, from 1945 until 1987.
Composer Biography
Langlais studied at the National Institute of the Young Blind in Paris and later at the Paris Conservatoire, where his teachers included Marcel Dupré, Paul Dukas, and Charles Tournemire.
Instruments
The recording uses the Brondino Vegezzi-Bossi organ at St. Paul Protestant Church in Gland, Switzerland, chosen for its sonorities typical of the French symphonic and Neo-Classical organ.
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