Various Artists - Le Grand JeuThis is a sort of self portrait of the Great Organ of the Royal Chapel of Versailles, delivering all it's aspects, enhanced by the choice of a repertoire emblematic of the baroque era: the major classic French organ works (Couperin, Marchand, de Grigny, Corrette) composed to glorify the very specific aesthetics of instruments like that of Louis XIV's Chapel; but also to reveal it's other sound riches, transcriptions of chefs d'oeuvres, from Le Sommeil

With 'Mozart y Mambo

and indeed that inspired it

Dowland/ Munderloh/ Behr - Awake Sweet Love

Syko Bob & NoCap) 9

written in regard to his predecessor Daniel Magnus Gronau

Peter Van de Velde (* 1972) started his organ-studies by himself at the age of nine

Corelli's prestigious orchestra in full formation performed "Sinfonie" with trumpets and timpani

it evokes the idea of joining two instruments

musical elements in this piece start subtly and are magnified to their extremes

and it is exactly this experience what makes the Swedes' album Revelation so attractive for the listener: an uncompromising mixture of mesmerizing rhythms

all of which star her sister and early muse Tinka Menkes

New Jersey and Boston before finishing up in Hoboken on May 9th