Some Thoughts on Playing the Organ by Willem Tanke: Copy video flutist Chauvet cave

13/12/2017

Copy video flutist Chauvet cave

3. Combining modal improvisation and atonal fragments from "L'Ange aux parfums" and "Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité" on a rhythmic melodic pattern in 7/4 measure

Video: Olivier Messiaen and the flautist of the Chauvet Cave

Time table to this video:

0'00 - 4'10'' modal improvisation (without fragments from Messiaen)
4'10" - 10'14" passages from the first duet of Messiaen's "L'Ange aux parfums" on the second and third manual alternating with modal improvisations on the first manual
10'15"- 10'27" two passages from Messiaen's "Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité" (7th movement; middle section)
10'28" - 12'27" like before from "L'Ange aux parfums"
12'28" break
13'37" - 14'14" varied racapitulation of the left hand loop; modal improvisation (not Messiaen)

About

As a classical organist I have been a prominent Messiaen and Reger interpreter since the '90s. Nowadays Bach interpretation is my main classical project. This is represented by my research "Dancing Bach on the organ". At the same time, as an improviser and a performing composer, I have been creating a new musical language which brings together musicians with avant-jazz, avant-pop, Western classical and traditional African and Asian backgrounds. I now relate this to my Bach interpretation.