Pierre Labric, a blind French organist whose career spanned the mid-20th century, was one of the greatest players of his generation and a tireless champion of French romantic repertoire. Labric’s recorded legacy is small but was deeply influential, and his recordings of the ten organ symphonies of Charles-Marie Widor, performed on the Cathedral of Saint Owen de Rouen’s enormous Cavaille-Coll Organ, released on LP by Musical Heritage Society, captured Labric’s revelatory, highly dramatic readings that many critics and connoisseurs considered the greatest on record. After having been unavailable for over four decades, Orpheus is proud to release these recordings, newly remastered from archival sources, making them available internationally for the first time.
Widor: Organ Symphony No. 6 in G Minor, Op. 42 No. 2
