Pre-Order: Maxtone-Smith, Charles * Cinquieme Symphonie: Organ Music by Vierne, Tournemire and Durufle [New CD] 3/11/22 E1 Behind Blue Eyes

E1 Behind Blue Eyes

and an exquisitely decorated book of basse dances on black-stained vellum with silver and gold calligraphy

Polished Knives

Recipients of five Grammy nominations and winners of multiple Blues Music Awards (the Grammy of the blues)

but remained unfinished for a long time

Pre-Order: Maxtone-Smith, Charles * Cinquieme Symphonie: Organ Music by Vierne, Tournemire and Durufle [New CD] 3/11/22 E1 Behind Blue EyesThe early twentieth century was a period of enormous innovation and inventiveness in French organ music. On his debut album, Charles Maxtone Smith brings together some of it's finest treasures by three titans of the organ repertoire, namely Louis Vierne, Charles Tournemire, and Maurice Durufl, making full use of the resources of Buckfast Abbey's Ruffatti instrument. Vierne's tumultuous Cinquime Symphonie explores chromaticism through his vivid