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Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet
Vive la France!
Marie Bernadette Dufourcet has delighted audiences with her spectacular playing and proves herself to be yet another shining star in the galaxy of famous French organists. On our next Pipedreams program, she steps beyond the shadow of her equally talented husband, Naji Hakim, to demonstrate her own gifts as interpretor, improvisor and composer. In recordings made in Washington DC and Saint Paul, Minnesota, and a few done at her church, Notre-Dame-des-Champs in Paris where she is titulaire, Ms. Dufourcet establishes herself as not just your average wife and mother, sharing a cross-section of music from the past century.
She is a supremely assurred player and composer, as demonstrated through recital recordings and perceptive commentary. Celebrate Marie Bernadette Dufourcet-Hakim, our special guest, who makes you want to shout Viva la France!, which we do, this week on Pipedreams.
Program Broadcast dates:
- March 11, 2002
Music played in the program
NAJI HAKIM: Pange Lingua: 6 Variations (1)
OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Alleluias Sereins, from L’Ascension (2)
JEAN LANGLAIS: Poem of Happiness (2)
ALBERT ROUSSEL: Prelude & Fughetta, Op. 41 (3)
LANGLAIS: Prelude & Fugue, Op. 1 (3)
RENE VIERNE: Postlude in d and Sortie in D, from 10 Pieces in Diverse Styles (3)
LOUIS VIERNE: Carillon de Westminster, Op. 54, no. 6 (2)
MARIE-BERNADETTE DUFOURCET: Image (1)
DUFOURCET: Alba (1)
DUFOURCET: Improvisation on Two Themes (Lauda Sion; H-A-K-I-M)
Concert performances were recorded at:
(1) (1987 Kney/Saint Thomas Aquinas Chapel, University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, MN) (recorded 11/3/97)
(2) (1964 Möller/National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC) ( recorded 7/14/91)
(3) (1876 Cavaillé-Coll/Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Paris, France) (where Ms. Dufourcet is titulaire) (Priory CD-422).