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FRI am currently working on a new French organ sample set.
More news in a few weeks!
New Hauptwerk sample set for 2025
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Joyeux Noël(s)!
“Un joyeux Noël” as we say in French, or better: “2 joyeux Noëls” pieces, here performed by Christian Brembeck with the sample set La Chaise Dieu.
Noël Etranger (VIII) from Louis-Claude Daquin’s “Livres de Noëls”:
Allons voir ce divin gage (No. 36) from Jean-François Dandrieu:
Michel Corrette – Offertoire VII (La Chaise Dieu sample set)
My thanks to Paul Fey for playing Michel Corrette’s Offertoire VII with:
Suite du Premier Ton (L.-N. Clérambault)
The organist Dick Sanderman (you can visit his website here) has recently recorded the “Suite du Premier Ton” from Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749), with the sample set Jeux d’orgues 4 – La Chaise Dieu.
Here you can listen to the recordings:
User-contributed performances / audio demos
Many thanks to the performers of these Contrebombarde contributions!
Récit de Tierce en Taille (Nicolas Lebègue)
Many thanks to J.L. Perrot for his performance.
New French baroque organ: Jeux d’orgues 4
We are glad to announce the release of our new Hauptwerk sample set recorded on a historic organ:
Jeux d’orgues 4 – La Chaise Dieu
Example from French Baroque repertoire:
Example, J.S. Bach :
French organ music – Noël “Allons-nous en promptement auprès de la crèche”
Many thanks to the performer of Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy’s Noël “Allons-nous en promptement auprès de la crèche”, that shows the registration possibilities of the Silbermann sample set. Recorded with the software Hauptwerk.
Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy (1633, Vitry-le-François – 1694, Perpignan) was a French harpsichordist and organist.
User-contributed performance of a J.S. Bach Organ Sonata
Here is a delightful performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Organ Sonata No.1 in E flat major, BWV 525 (my thanks to the unknown performer):
recorded with this sample set.
Jeux d’orgues 3 – Silbermann (1745) demos
Thanks go to Panos Ghekas and Dick Sanderman for their interpretations.