🎵 Alain - Litanies | One of my FAVOURITE pieces of French organ music!!

Описание: This is one of the most popular pieces in the repertoire of French organ music - and rightly so!

Jehan Alain was killed in the Second World War in 1940 being being posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre for his bravery. It's one of the great travesties of French organ music that Alain died so young.

There is a beautiful inscription at the beginning of this piece which reads: "When, in its distress, the Christian soul can find no more words to invoke God's mercy, it repeats endlessly the same litany....for reason has reached its limit; only faith can take one further...". To me this inscription alongside Alain's untimely death makes this piece very relevant for the poignant season of Lent.

This is one of my favourite pieces in the French repertoire, and I hope you enjoy it.

Jean Alain - Litanies.

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