André Isoir - Bastille Day (2025) [Official Digital Download]

André Jean-Marie Isoir (20 July 1935 – 20 July 2016) was a French organist and pedagogue.

André Isoir was born in 1935 in Saint-Dizier in Grand Est, France. Isoir studied with Édouard Souberbielle (organ) and Germaine Mounier (piano) at the École César Franck and under Rolande Falcinelli at the Conservatoire de Paris where he won the first prizes in organ and improvisation in 1960.

Thereafter he won several international organ competitions. In 1965 he won the improvisation competition in St Albans (UK). And, in three successive years, he won the competition in Haarlem (Netherlands), earning the "Challenge Award," the only French interpreter to have achieved this distinction since the inception of the competition in 1951.

André Isoir was organist titulaire at St-Médard in Paris from 1952 to 1967 and at St. Severin in 1967. Since 1973 he has been titulaire (head organist) at the ancient Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris.

In 1974 Isoir was appointed to the organ staff at the Conservatoire d'Orsay, in 1977 promoted to the rank of National School of Music. He became a full professor in January 1978 and remained at Orsay until 1983, when he was appointed to the Conservatoire National de Region de Boulogne-Billancourt, where he taught organ until 1994.

Isoir recorded some sixty discs, notably for Calliope. His recordings have been awarded the Grand Prix du Disque in 1972, 73, 74, 75, 77, 80, 89 and 91 as well as the «Président de la République» prize for "Le Livre d'Or de l’Orgue Français". In February 1974 he was awarded membership of the Friends of the Organ for his "Variations sur un psaume huguenot". He has recorded the complete organ works of J. S. Bach, which remains one of the benchmark performances of Bach's organ music. His recordings of works by César Franck on the organ of the Luçon Cathedral were also highly praised.

TRACKLIST

1. André Isoir - Marche des Marseillois et l’air Ça-ira (Version for Organ) (Live)
2. André Isoir - Pièce en trio in E Minor
3. André Isoir - Deuxième Livre d’Orgue, Op. 26: Magnificat du 8e ton: I. Plein Jeu
4. André Isoir - Deuxième Livre d’Orgue, Op. 26: Magnificat du 8e ton: II. Duo
5. André Isoir - Deuxième Livre d’Orgue, Op. 26: Magnificat du 8e ton: III. Trio
6. André Isoir - Deuxième Livre d’Orgue, Op. 26: Magnificat du 8e ton: IV. Récit de Trompette
7. André Isoir - Deuxième Livre d’Orgue, Op. 26: Magnificat du 8e ton: V. Musette
8. André Isoir - Deuxième Livre d’Orgue, Op. 26: Magnificat du 8e ton: VI. Grand Jeu
9. André Isoir - Troisième Fugue in D Major
10. André Isoir - Douze Noël variés pour l’orgue, Op. 13: No. 11, Noël en grand chœur
11. André Isoir - Nouveau Livre de Noëls, Op. 2: No. 11, Noël en récit de taille
12. André Isoir - Noël Lorrain
13. André Isoir - Quand Jésus naquit à Noël
14. André Isoir - Fugue en duo in D Minor
15. André Isoir - Pièces de Clavecin, Op. 5: No. 21, Les cloches d’Orléans (Version for Organ)
16. André Isoir - Symphonie concertante
17. André Isoir - Flûtes in D Minor
18. André Isoir - Messe for Organ in F Major: XIII. Récit de tierce
19. André Isoir - La Victoire de l’Armée d’Italie (Live)
20. André Isoir - Nouveau livre de Noëls, Suite No. 1: IV. Noël provençal
21. André Isoir - La Marseillaise (Arr. for Organ by André Isoir)



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