[rodgersorgan] New David Pettit CD
- From: noel jones <gedeckt@xxxxxxxx>
- To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:04:52 -0400
I was loaned a CD by the title "Wind, Wood, Metal + Brass". It sports very nice
cover art by Via Design of Portland, Oregon.
As we enter into a time when anyone can burn a CD of "their favorites" I would
rip a track from this CD without a doubt...
The Rodgers Organ appears with some MIDI and also with two fine trumpeters, Alan
Siebert and Daniel Grantham who play with singing tone and warmth, but it is an
organ-only track that gets my vote.
I have always been a Durufle fan, partly because I had the opportunity to meet
the Durufles and attend rehearsals and performances with them when I was quite
young, just before I went off to New York City to study.
Anyhow, Durufle was a rather parsimonious composer. He didn't write much music.
I know that David Pettit has studied organ in France...it appears that it took.
The A track of choice (#13) on this CD is definitely Prélude to the Introit of
Épiphany. Pettit's tempos, rubato and registration are wondrous. This was
written to be played to introduce the tone for the choir that would follow by
singing the Introit to the Mass in Gregorian Chant. Since Chant is modal
(written not only in major and minor, but following other scales built upon
scales that appear as they do on the white keys ascending from that
note...meaning that the mode associated with C is the regular major scale, the
one beginning on A becomes our minor scale...and that gives 5 other scales we
hear rarely) the chordal relationships are flowing and not familiar always to
the ear...Durufle and Dupre mastered the art of serving as organists in the
Catholic Church where their essential role was the introduction of Chant.
I have always enjoyed David's playing and this is the epitome.
Get a cup of coffee after dinner around dusk, put on the stereo, set track to
repeat Track 13 over and over...imagine stone columns, a hint of incense,
filtered light through old stained glass that is buckling at the bottom...it
will be easy once the music begins to play.
More, Dave, more...
--
noel jones, aago
athens, tennessee, usa
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