Jean Phillipe Rameau

Pivka, Marián 1959- Kleine stücke grosser meister, vol. 2 Short pieces, great composers, vol. 2.  West Germany PMG ; Costa Mesa, CA  PILZ Compact Disc (distributor) [1988]. Gavotte und 5 variationen / J.P. Rameau   Marián Pivka, piano.
The French harpsichord. Angel [1973] Rameau, J.P. Suite in A minor. Igor Kipnis, harpsichord. Rameau, Jean Philippe, 1683-1764. Pièces de clavecin,

 Rameau, Jean Philippe,1683-1764.     Concerts en sextuor, string orchestra.Selections.     Concerts en sextuor :no. 1, 4, 5 [and] 6.  Mercury,[1964?   Stuttgart Baroque Ensemble; Marcel Couraud, conductor.

 Greatest harpsichord hits.     Decca[1970 ] Rameau  Sylvia Marlowe, harpsichord.

 French baroque music for harpsichord. Epic[1964 -Suite in E [minor] by Rameau [from Pièces de  clavecin, 1724]  Igor Kipnis, harpsichord.

 Holiday for orchestra New York :Columbia,[1965?]  The hen /   Rameau 
Percussion, brass, strings and winds of the Philadelphia  Orchestra ; Eugene Ormandy, conductor.

Baroque masterpieces for the harpsichord. Mercury, [1965]  J.P.   Rameau    Rafael Puyana, harpsichord.

Treasury of harpsichord music    RCA Victor[1957]  Rameau,    Wanda Landowska, harpsichord.

Ralph Kirkpatrick, Cembalo.    Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft[1966]      Pièces de clavecin:  Les tendres  plaintes (rondeau); Les niais de Sologne, von J. P. Rameau. 

Paul Dukas

Paul Dukas
Paul Abraham Dukas 1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935 was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man, of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, and he abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions. His best known work is the orchestral piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'apprenti sorcier), the fame of which has eclipsed that of his other surviving works. Among these are the opera Ariane et Barbe-bleue, a symphony, two substantial works for solo piano, and a ballet, La Péri.
Hermann Baumann – Dukas: Villanelle for Horn and Orchestra  Hermann Baumann & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig & Kurt Masur – French Horn Music
Nikolai Petrov – Variations, Interlude and Finale On The Theme Of Rameau Nikolai Petrov – Works By Rameau, Dukas, Bizet, Saint-Saëns and Ravel
Falla, Manuel de 1876-1946.Homenajes Homage.  RCA Victor [1957]   To Paul Dukas.--Pedrelliana.   Rome Symphony Orchestra; J. J. Castro, conductor.
Leopold Stokowski conducts Seraphim [1977]   Dukas. Fanfare [from La péri]
Dukas, Paul, 1865-1935.   La péri   La péri ; The sorcerer's apprentice P.A. Dukas.  Hollywood, CA  Capitol, [1956]  Orchestra of the Paris Opera ; Robert Benedetti, conductor.
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Paul Dukas – Symphony in C Major: I. Allegro non troppo vivace, ma con fuoco  II. Andante espressivo e sostenuto   III. Allegro spiritoso Margaret Fingerhut – Dukas: Essential Paul Dukas (The)
 Paul Dukas – Polyeucte
Paul Dukas – Piano Sonata in E-Flat Minor: I. Moderement vif - expressif et marque : II. Calme - un peu lent - tres soutenu  III. Vivement, avec legerete

Louis Vierne

Born blind, Vierne partially regained sight at age six. Obvious talent was rewarded with piano and solfège studies, to which were added harmony, violin, and a general course when he entered the Institution National des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris in 1880. There he was befriended by César Franck who, from 1886, gave him private tuition in harmony while including Vierne in his organ class at the Paris Conservatoire. The lessons of the master were not lost on him—Franck possessed perhaps the richest harmonic palette in Western music and Vierne effortlessly absorbed many of its features. Vierne entered the Conservatoire as a full-time student in 1890. Franck died in November, succeeded by Charles-Marie Widor as professor of organ. Vierne soon became Widor's assistant, a post he continued to hold under Guilmant—where he taught Dupré and Nadia Boulanger—and deputized for Widor at St. Sulpice. Vierne took the Conservatoire's first prize for organ in 1894, though his career waited until 1900 to be spectacularly launched when, on May 21, he triumphed over four other organists in a competition for the prestigious post of titular organist at Notre Dame de Paris (its magnificent instrument reconditioned by Cavaillé-Coll) where his audience came to include such luminaries as Clémenceau and Rodin. The Symphony No. 1 for organ (1898-1899) forecasts the succession of moods—grand and assertively virile, searchingly contrapuntal, effusive, and distressingly confessional—which would deepen anguishingly in succeeding works, reflecting an unhappy marriage and divorce, professional disappointments, the loss of a son and a brother in the Great War, and a continual battle to retain minimal sight. After being passed over for professorship of the Conservatoire's organ class in 1911, Vierne taught at the Schola Cantorum. His Symphony No. 2 for organ, completed in 1903, drew from no less a critic than Debussy the stunning accolade, "M. Vierne's symphony is truly remarkable. It combines rich musicality with ingenious discoveries in the special sonority of the organ. J.S. Bach, the father of us all, would have been well pleased...." The spate of disturbingly eloquent compositions—mélodies, piano pieces, chamber works, mass settings, the Symphony in A, and numerous works for organ (including, at last, six symphonies)—continued to pour forth until his death. Concert tours took him to England in 1924 and 1925, and on to a three-month visit to the U.S. and Canada in 1927. Vierne died of a heart attack at the organ of Notre Dame during a public concert on June 2, 1937.

Virgil Fox plays the Wanamaker grand court organ, Philadelphia. Command| 1964]  Vierne, L. Carillon de Westminister.

A Festival of French organ music  Columbia, [1962]
Contains works by Widor, Saint-Saëns, Franck, Gigout, Vierne, Alain, and Dupré.
E. Power Biggs playing the organ at St. George’s Church.  New York City.

Organ music from France   Capitol[1961]
Scherzo, from Second symphony,  by Vierne.Virgil Fox, playing the organ in Riverside Church, New York.

Finale

"Final" Vierne Symphony No. 1, James Welch on the Mormon Tabernacle Organ 

 The Virtuoso organ    Capitol[1959]
--Allegro from the second symphony, by L. Vierne.    Virgil Fox, organ.

 Martin Jean – The Complete Symphonies of Louis Vierne
 Louis Vierne – Organ Symphony No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 28: I. Allegro maestoso   II. Cantilene
 III. Intermezzo  IV. Adagio V. Final
Louis Vierne – Organ Symphony No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 32: I. Prelude II. Allegro III. Menuet IV. Romance V. Final