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Triumphal Music for Organ & Orchestra

Franz Hauk appears as organist in Guild's series of CDs devoted to French and Belgian music for organ and orchestra (American Horatio Parker's Concerto is still to come). Saint-Saëns, Guilmant, Gounod and Dubois, born between 1818-37 were each actively concerned with composing celebratory or patriotic music, as well as experiencing successes as fine soloists in their lifetimes.

Triumphal Music is centred around the 'Ingolstadt Organ Days', and the works are: Romance, Marche élégiaque, Hymne à Sainte Cécile et Nuptial, Marche funèbre, Sérénade, and finally Guilmant's massive 5-movement Concerto, which will shake the rafters of your living-room played back at full volume [listen - track 7, 0:00-1:00].

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