Daniel Roth Improvises at Saint-Sulpice | The Prelude to Easter Sunday Mass at Saint-Sulpice

Daniel Roth the Organist of Saint Sulpice in Parish is one of the giants of the organ world who is internationally recognized for his performances, improvisations and compositions will play one recital at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Brooklyn, New York on April 24, 2015. It is his only concert appearance in New York City this season.

The video was made on the Cavaillé-Coll pipe organ at Saint-Sulpice, Easter Sunday of 2010, before the Mass. The improvisation was not written down. Daniel Roth "made it up" on the spot by taking inspiration from the Easter texts and used traditional Easter gregorian melodies celebrating the Resurrection.

These are my personal programatic notes interpretting the improvisation: at the very beginning you can almost see Mary Magdalene experiencing the stone rolled back from Jesus's tomb, her going to find the disciples, but as the music becomes more hurried and chaotic you can almost see the disciples running to the tomb, you can almost hear disciple's thoughts as they realized what had really happened when organ crescendos to the tutti with all the reeds blazing and the 32-Contra Bombarde thundering.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Christ is risen! Truly, He is risen!

Daniel Roth will improvise at his concert Our Lady of Refuge in the Ditmas Park section of Brooklyn and will play written works by Sweelinck, Bach, Franck, Vierne and Mendelssohn as well as his own compositions. Full details are available at: http://www.olrbrooklyn.org

Tickets can be purchased in advanced at http://www.olrbrooklyn.org/organ-reci...

It is strongly suggested you purchase you tickets very soon as the tickets are selling very fast as of April 4th.