Charles Tournemire 1870-1939

[Symphonic Addict]

More Tournemire is always welcome...

I wish a new complete cycle of his symphonies in more authoritative performances (especially regarding Nos. 1, 2 and 4) would be recorded instead of that organ work, or choral works that haven't seen the light of day yet.

[foxandpeng]

I wish a new complete cycle of his symphonies in more authoritative performances (especially regarding Nos. 1, 2 and 4) would be recorded instead of that organ work, or choral works that haven't seen the light of day yet.

Completely agree. Hurray for any Tournemire, but his symphonies first and foremost.

[Mandryka]

There's too much music in the world really. Tournemire's sequence of Préludes-Poèmes  is another example of the imaginative, the satisfying and the undeservedly neglected. This is Georges Delvallée's recording - he's a well known Tournemite. There's another recording by Lise Boucher. It is very different and no less satisfying, in a different way (softer.)

The music is like nothing else that I know  - I wonder if anyone would disagree with that, I'm maybe not that familiar with French keyboard music from his milieu.

Just saw that Wikipedia asserts "Tournemire a également composé pour le piano, ainsi son cycle de Douze préludes-poèmes op. 58, dans la lignée d'Alexandre Scriabine, Claude Debussy et Maurice Ravel." Maybe.