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Alexandre Guilmant
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Noël Écossais (Communion No. 1), (From Opus 60) Click to Listen [3:26]
Guilmant's slow tempos are legendary (they're about half as fast as everybody else, if you check the Riemenschneider edition of the Bach's Liturgical Year). So this rather sing-songy Noël might seem dirgelike if it were not in a reverberant hall. Though written for two manuals, a transposition down one octave for the Récit. passages allows a slightly different timbre to distinguish them. Instrument: Dieter Ott, (2003) House Organ recorded by Christian Datzko

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