Olivier Latry Final improvisation of the Sunday Mass - Notre Dame de Paris video free download

Daniel Sabzghabaei

Tearing it up

LickYourChops

Utterly Mind Blowing. WOW

Goggle P

Pas si mal, Mssr. Latry.

Andork Kuomo

THAT is organ music!! That's what the s-o-b was built to do!! And no one can do it like Latry. I'm just blown away speechless!

Grizzli Grizzli

Great impro. As mentioned by one commentator, this concludes a service dedicated to the Paris fire brigade, hence the opening theme - the fire truck siren.

KPO6859

Listening to his improvisation, I would find it impossible to want to leave the building (which is the whole purpose of the Recessional). French improvisation is very unique and rich in tradition and has created a large quantity of amazing performances. Bravo! I wish success for the New Organ Project.

Michael Bell

Yup....you can hear the Cavaille-Coll in it again after the Cochereau era.

Chesterbarnes1

It's musical logic on fire!!!!!

Chesterbarnes1

Just awesome, he just takes all of the BREATH out of the organ.... he cleans the air in the church with his music...when you finish listening to Lantry you are tired and worn out....

Âppallith Dómisylír

I learned how to improvise by listening to Latry. I could care less about the theory. Improvisation mostly has to deal with listening and experimentation as far as I'm concerned.

trey782

I love Olivier Latry. He played a recital rededicating my Cathedrals organ that was restored. He just blew me away. I love the organ at Notre Dame. I wish to hear it in person someday. 

OldPost661

It takes a lot of imagination to grasp what this must have sounded like (mind blowing) in the nave. This video sounds like it was recorded not just on someone's phone, but OVER someone's phone - through the lousy, low res phone line. The sound is terrible. Not only that, but the worst place in the room to hear an organ like this is at the console. The instrument is simply not voiced to sound good at the console - it's voiced for that massive nave. So it really does take a lot of mental processing to imagine what this sounded like downstairs. But that's all beside the point. Someone in the organ loft had the wit to pull out their phone and grab this, an incredibly valuable record of an event, and of a musical genius at work. Regardless of the sound quality, thanks for posting. 

mocasiml

I'm exhausted.. Over the top maybe, but who cares? Loved it.

bastien delaniau

Toujours de la musique prétensieuse, agressive... Mais cependant je ne vois aucun majesté dans toute cacophonie ! Changez un peu vos manieres agressives de jouer Mr Latry !

Harold Redline

Heaven forbid someone should have a thought or opinion that differs from others. If one scrolls down others have made comments such as "long and boring" another about white noise. I give my opinion and have people tearing down my throat! I am very sorry that my opinion differs from most of you folks. some like vanilla and some like Chocolate, Some drive a ford and some drive a Chevy. This is not my cup of tea! As the late great Virgil Fox said, "There are those that walk around with their nose so far up in the air that they cannot smell that which life is made of."

Harold Redline

sounds like a cat chasing a mouse on the manuals. I recall being at an AGO convention in Richmond VA. and Mr Latry played for the opening. Large RC cathedral, many of us were musicians. 12-15 singers up front they would sing, he would answer from the balcony at the organ. When the service finally began, he introduced the gathering hymn. He improvised on the indtrocution, now keep in mind many of us, the greater majority, were musicians. We all looked at each other because even we had no idea when it was time to sing! And people call this cacophony wonderful???????

bastien delaniau

i'm french and i hate this horizontal trumpets too !!! ;)

Orgeljonas

I hate those horizontal-trumpets

Bernardo Eraso Lorea

Que fiera. Si uno cierra los ojos no sabe si está en el final de una ceremonia religiosa, o en los créditos de una película épica de ciencia ficción.

william skylark

This organ is very difficult to record and most recording engineers do not know how to do it. It has the power in volume of going from a Whisper to the fffff of a Jet plane. The recording he does not do M. Latry justice---because of the distortions that the recording does. This has been shown time and time again from the days when Louis Vierne attempted to record here all the way down to the prestent presentationNOW I am wondering if M. Larty is still chief organist of Notre Dame?