Bonnal, Ermend

Media Vita

Vincent Grappy organ Mutin-Cavaillé-Coll of the Collégiale Saint-Pierre, Douai (Nord) Christophe Giovaninetti violin A composer of many talents, from the string quartet to the oratorio and lighter music, Bonnal left us two organ masterpieces which, within the rich harvest of the interwar years, form the link between the works of his master Tournemire and those of his friend Duruflé. While the Paysages euskariens blaze with the colours of the Basque country where he spent much of his life, the Symphony on "Media vita" opens the doors of his anxious yet confident soul, in the gentleness of the Gregorian cantilenas: "Holy and merciful Saviour, deliver us not from the bitter death!"

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