Prières pour Notre Dame: Music for organ and upper voices by Dupré, Boulanger, Demessieux, Poulenc
Dir George Richford
Regent
There can’t be many car manufacturers who have added notably to the Catholic liturgy – or indeed any liturgy. But there is Claude Johnson, who described himself as the hyphen in Rolls-Royce. By 1910, Johnson was running the company after the death of the two founders. And he was the dedicatee of Marcel Dupré’s 15 versets pour les vêpres du commun des fêtes de la Sainte Vierge. This was initially in alternatim form: the treble line of chant alternated with Dupré himself improvising on the vast organ of Notre-Dame de Paris for the feast of the Assumption on August 15, 1919.
