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Fugue sur le thème du Carillon des Heures de la Cathédrale de Soissons by Maurice Duruflé performed by Ben Bloor on the 45 stop 1954 Downes/Walker organ of the London Oratory Church in a live recital on Monday 31st October 2022.

No composer of the French Organ School was more of a perfectionist than Maurice Duruflé. Despite only having fourteen published opuses, mostly organ and choral music, he has a firm place in the musical canon for the undeniable quality of compositional craft and the emotional depth of each individual work. He was born in 1902 in Louviers, Normandy, and was a chorister in Rouen Cathedral, which clearly had an influence on some of his later sacred compositions. Having taken organ lessons with Charles Tournemire at St Clotilde in his late teens, he became Louis Vierne’s assistant at Notre Dame from 1927, before being appointed a titulaire himself two years later at St Étienne-du-Mont. Fugue sur le thème du Carillon des Heures de la Cathédrale de Soissons, Op 12, as the title suggests, is based on the Carillon of Soissons Cathedral, and was dedicated to Henri Doyen, the canon-cum-organist of the cathedral. The harmonic language leans towards the diatonic rather than chromatic, with a heavy emphasis on the modal. As the piece builds, the fugal writing culminates in a long held A punctuated by devastatingly loud chords.

Ben Bloor is Organist at the London Oratory Church, School Organist at Westminster School and a Junior Fellow at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

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