Once Upon a Time… At the Walt Disney Concert Hall; Jean-Baptiste Robin (CD)

Jean-Baptiste Robin b.1976

1. Improvisation on Fairy Tales 3’30

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840-1893

2. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker 1’46

Jules Massenet 1842-1912

3. Les Mandores from Cendrillon 2’07

Maurice Duruflé 1902-1986

Suite Op.5

4. I. Prélude 9’15
5. II. Sicilienne 6’38
6. III. Toccata 8’09

Claude Debussy 1862-1918

7. Clair de lune (from Suite bergamasque) 5’13

Marcel Dupré 1886-1971

8. Deuxième esquisse Op.41 No.2 in B-flat minor 4’08

Frédéric Chopin 1810-1849

9. Prelude No.15 from Op.28 7’47

Maurice Ravel 1875-1937

Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose)                                                                                                                                 

10. I. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant (Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty) 1’47
11. II. Petit Poucet (Little Tom Thumb) 3’46
12. III. Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes (Little Ugly Girl, Empress of the Pagodas) 3’45
13. IV. Les Entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête (Conversation of Beauty and the Beast) 4’36
14. V. Le Jardin féérique (The Fairy Garden) 3’27

Jean-Baptiste Robin

15. The Hands of Time 11’16

First premiere recording commission from the American Guild of Organists for the Biannual National Convention in Kansas City, 2018

Jean-Baptiste Robin organ

at the Walt Disney Concert Hall organ, built by Rosales Organ Builders

2, 3, 7, 9, 10-14: transcription by Jean-Baptiste Robin

7: transcription published by Le Chant du Monde © Le Chant du Monde

15: Score published by Gérard Billaudot Editeur © Gérard Billaudot

Total time                                                                                                                                                                      77’21

Recording: 10 July 2018, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, USA