PUBLISHED: Mar 14, 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Luca Massaglia (http://www.lucamassaglia.com/) plays "Berceuse sur deux notes qui cornent", JA 7 bis (AWV 5), by Jehan Alain (1911-1940).
Hauptwerk system, Cavaillé-Coll organ of St. Etienne Abbey Church in Caen, France.
The piece was written in August 1929, and it's based on two notes of the composer's home organ that had stuck, producing what organists call a cipher. That organ was built by Jehan Alain's father, Albert, and was moved in 1991 from the Alain family's home in Saint-Germain-en-Laye to the Grange de la Dîme in Romainmôtier (Switzerland), where the "Jehan Alain" Association is based.