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Reel-to-reel: Reel to reel Master tape: César Franck by Jean-Paul Imbert. 15 i.p.s stereo
320.00 GBP
(439.57 USD)
320.00 GBP
06 Feb 2021
15 Jan 2019
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César Franck organ works
by Jean-Paul Imbert.
15 i.p.s stereo Reel to reel Master tape.
Analogue 15ips 10.5 inch metal reels 1/2 track. 2 tapes 60 minutes total
(Includes free CD/SACD surround sound edition!)
This Reel to Reel tape is a copy edition of the pure analogue master tape recorded at the Abbey of St Etienne. The recording is organ works by César Franck performed by legendary french organist Jean-Paul Imbert in 2017 on an original
1885 Cavaillé-Coll organ.
This tape was recorded by Base2 Music, from a stereo microphone pair at 15 metres height facing the organ, and independently recorded direct to tape at 15 ips 1/2 track on Studer tape recorders re-built by Tim de Paravacini, with modified Dolby A noise reduction also by de Paravacini.
Each tape is manufactured to order on brand new 911 tape.
Please allow 7 to 10 days for production. The tape on sale here is a direct 1:1 copy from the master tape. The original master tape was hand edited, and has not been digitised in any way.
The tape is made at our recording studio and is monitored on Vivid Audio Giya loudspeakers.
The recording is also available on CD/SACD (in 5.1 and Stereo) and I will include the disc as a compliment to those who purchase this prestige tape.
You are buying a hand made and bespoke copy. The tape is uncompressed and unprocessed and is a superb addition to any high end reel to reel tape library.
POSTAGE: £40 to EU and USA £60 CHINA/HK/ASIA. Russia - we have our own agent there. If you are from Russia please contact me.
UK postage at £10 - or collection from our Studio.
Biography of Jean-Paul Imbert:
Jean-Paul Imbert, international concert organist and professor, performs music written for the organ, by French composer César Franck (10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890).
Jean-Paul Imbert, is an organist from France. Born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1942, he studied piano and organ : at the early age of 15 he was appointed organist of the church of Sainte Jeanne d’Arc. In Paris he studied with Pierre Cochereau and Jean Guillou whose assistant he was from 1971 to 1993 in Saint-Eustache.
From 1997 to 2006 he was the organist in the Basilica of Notre Dame du Perpétuel Secours in Paris where he contributed largely to the reputation of this magnificent contemporary instrument by organizing a series of concerts « Organ in Duet », but also at the time of it’s official inauguration with the orchestra of the Schola Cantorum conducted by Michel Denis in September 2004. He made several recordings on that organ .
Since 1982 he taught at the Schola Cantorum, and his classes have produced a number of artists of international repute.
His concerts have seen him mostly in Europe where he intrigued the public with his innovative registration, exploring all the possibilities offered by the instruments.
He has taken part in the most renown festivals: Caen, Chartres, Radio-France, Ravenna, Torino, Cambridge, Rome, Roquevaire, Bordeaux, Moscow, Freiburg in Brisgau, Gdansk-Oliwa, Portsmouth, Lausanne. He has a strong passion for Bach, and also the romantic school, and his interpretations are always colourful and lively. He has written a number of transcriptions of works by Prokoviev, Rachmaninov, Grieg, Liszt, Verdi, and Wagner.
He has received distinctions such as "Officier des Arts et des Lettres" from the minister for Culture in 2010 and in 2014 was awarded the "Palmes Academiques" by the minister for Education.