Discography, search exemple

Content

Database is composed by :

exhaustive discography of principal French organists (187 born between 1875 and 1977)
exhaustive discography of some non French organists : A. Froidebise, J. Jones,, K. Koïto, C. Rakish, G. Weir, G. Arel, A. Bolliger, A. Bouchard, G. Bovet, D. Briggs, R. Cavarra, J. D. Christie, R. Daveluy, H. Deutsch, L. van Doeselaar, M.-A. Doran, P. Ewers, R. Fisher, B. Foccroulle, M. Haselböck, A. Heiller, C. Herrick, K. van Houten, P. Hurford, G. Kaunzinger, A. de Klerk, E. Kooiman, B. Lagacé, G. Leonhardt, A. Luy, C. M. Moosmann, M. Murray, T. Murray, A. Newman, F. Peeters, P. Planyavsky, R. Poirier, Y. G. Préfontaine, M. Radulescu, L. Rogg, H. Schoonbroodt, J. Sluys, R. Smith, W. Syré, L. F. Tagliavini, T. Toren, H. Vogel, H. Walcha, H. Walther, J. C. Zehnder.
records of non French organists totally devoted to one of 150 selected composers.
Concert recordings of non-French organists only from 1996 on.

Structure

Fields content :

Organist : indicates the performer's name or performers' names. Always write first name first and then the last name. If you want, you can write the last name only.
Record Title : defines general content.
Composer: Piece : This field groups two pieces of information but may contain the composer's name (initial and last) only. Pieces may be named by their appropriate French title (Symphonie, Sonate, Concerto...) or by a generic term such as 'Piece'. If the entire composition is recorded, you may write " X Sonates " or intégrale, or Oeuvre d'orgue (organ work).
Town / Church or Concert Hall : defines the place.
Publisher-Label: write the whole name or common abbreviation without reference codes.
-CD means numeric recording on a compact-disck or re-issue of a LP. After 1990 CD symbol is obviously omitted.
-The number between parentheses is the issue number of French journal "Disque" (dq ) or "Diapason-Harmonie" ( ) where the record is reviewed.

Exemple 1

To search some works by L. Vierne recorded in Paris.

There is no difference between UPPER or lower case letter. (VIERNE = vierne)
Notice that the place where the recording has been made is not always defined in the database.

Organist (first name NAME) Record title

Composer (NAME) Piece Town / Church or Hall

Publisher

Exemple 2

To search works by J. S. Bach performed by Marie-Claire Alain

If the "j." is not specified, recordings of the entire BACH family will appear. J.S. Bach or J. Bach must be indicated. Do not write the full first name as Johann Sebastian.
Please leave one space between the initial of the first name and the last name.
For the performer, write the first name followed by the name. Fisrt name may be written Marie-Claire, or Marie, or M C without periods.

Organist (first name NAME) Record title

Composer (NAME) Piece Town / Church or Hall

Publisher

Exemple 3

To search recordings of the Toccata in d BWV 565 by J. S. Bach

Organist (first name NAME) Record title

Composer (NAME) Piece Town / Church or Hall

Publisher

Exemple 4

To search recordings of the Passacaglia (Passacaille in French) by J. S. BACH

Organist (first name NAME) Record title

Composer (NAME) Piece Town / Church or Hall

Publisher

Exemple 5

To search the 5th Symphony by Widor

Please write only 5, never 5th or #5 or anything else.
If the result is not complete, you will need to write the number in all letters but in French "C. Widor cinq" (five=cinq)

Organist (first name NAME) Record title

Composer (NAME) Piece Town / Church or Hall

Publisher

Source : data base Alain CARTAYRADE