Marcel Dupré: SymphoniePassion, Op 23 | Deux Esquisses, Op 41 | Quatre Motets, Op 9 | Variations sur un Noël, Op 20
£14.50 £12.08 Ex vat
Richard Cook Organ
St Edmundsbury Cathedral Choir
Claudia Grinnell Director
Available on 08/10/2026
Track List
This is the first solo organ recording from Richard Cook, the Assistant Director of Music at St Edmundsbury Cathedral, and features one of the most significant solo organ works of the twentieth century: the SymphoniePassion, Op 23 by French composer and organist, Marcel
Dupré (1886–1971), together with other virtuoso organ works by Dupré, the Deux Esquisses, Op 41, and the Variations sur un Noël, Op 20.
The recording is also the first featuring the St Edmundsbury Cathedral Choir under their new Director of Music, Claudia Grinnell, who was appointed in 2024, who contribute Dupré’s Quatre Motets, Op 9, and the plainchant on which the four movements of the SymphoniePassion
are based.
Jesu redemptor omnium [plainsong]
0:33Symphonie-Passion, Op 23: I Le Monde dans l'attente du Sauveur
7:42Quatre Motets, Op 9: III Ave Maria Soloist – Natalie Werner
2:32Deux Esquisses, Op 41
I Mi Mineur
3:30II Si Bémol Mineur
4:46Adeste fideles [plainsong]
0:44Symphonie-Passion, Op 23: II Nativité
8:32Variations sur un Noël, Op 20
14:02Quatre Motets, Op 9: II Tantum ergo
2:58Stabat Mater [plainsong]
0:21Symphonie-Passion, Op 23: III Crucifixion
7:29Quatre Motets, Op 9: I O salutaris hostia
4:17Adoro te devote [plainsong]
0:34Symphonie-Passion, Op 23: IV Résurrection
9:44Total playing time: 71:39
Production credits
Recorded on 2–5 October 2025 in St Edmundsbury Cathedral
Recording producer and engineer: Myles Eastwood
Executive producer: Gary Cole
