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This organ is currently featured on the Public Downloads page of Organs and Organists Online. It was built in 1932, and the opening recital was given by Louis Vierne. Vierne, who was organist at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris at that time, had been involved in the design of this instrument, which was in part a product of the French "organ reform movement", started in 1922 by Andre Marchal, Victor Gonzales and Norbert Dufourcq. On this occasion Organiste Titulaire, Jerome Faucheur, plays music by Vierne, including the Carillon de Westminster and the Final from the the Third Symphony. Gonzales had been an apprentice with Cavaille Coll, whose influence is to be heard here. The building is of Cathedral proportions and acoustics, and the organ is situated in the West Gallery, from whence it speaks with clarity and authority.
John Foss
John Foss