Nantes Cathedral (2) Augustin Barié

Update on July 18, 2020: The news this morning has shaken us all. The organ, for some reason that no one can fathom, appears to have been targeted for destruction. Quel dommage.

Augustin Barié's Marche. Marie-Thérèse Jehan is the organist on the IV/74/104 Clicquot (1784), restored & enlarged twice since then. Debierre did the first work, in 1933. Not too many years later, the cathedral was severely damaged by (British) bombing during WW II. But it wasn't until 1971, for a multitude of reasons, that the organ was brought back up to full function by Beuchet-Debierre. Then, just a few months later, a fire wrought havoc on the cathedral. The organ is obviously in fine fettle, though, for this recording, made in 1980.