Thierry PALLESCO

French organist and composer

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Biography

Thierry Pallesco was born in Paris in 1956. After achieving his piano studies at the Conservatoire National de Région de Versailles in the class of Madeleine Chacun - he later became one of her assistants - he studied the organ at the Ecole Nationale de Musique d'Orsay with André Isoir (gold medal in 1980), then with Rolande Falcinelli at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where he got the first prizes in harmony (in 1980, in the class of Roger Boutry), in counterpoint (in 1981, in the class of Jean-Paul Holstein) and in fugue (in 1982, in the class of Michel Merlet) then his prize in organ.

In 1984, he was a finalist of the composition competition of the Amis de l'Orgue. Since then his works have been published in France and Germany.

At the present time, he is harmony teacher at the department of musicology at the University of Poitiers, France. He has been organist of the Cathédrale St-Spire de Corbeil-Essonnes (in the Paris area). He now plays in Poitiers (St-Paul church).

All Thierry Pallesco's works are inspired, heard (not only calculated). They are in the evolutive prolongation ot tonal music, but including a few peculiar discords to atonality, only the most expessive ones.

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Thanks to Alistair Reid (USA, Greenwich, Connecticut), Kevin Bowyer and Marcus Wibberley (UK), (Dr) Josef Dahlberg (Köln, Germany), Jacques Saint-Laurent (Canada), Pascale Rouet, Michael Matthes, Maxime Patel, Yannick Merlin and François Clément (France) : all of them are T. Pallesco's performers round-the-world !

- Kevin Bowyer is going to perform the Toccata et Fugue en ut# (T. Pallesco), in Germany, next June 2012 (two recitals). Details later...

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Thierry Pallesco : MP3 files :

Last updating : 25/07/2011

You are going to hear all my organ works (MP3 files). All of them have been recorded with my own digital organ about ten years ago to give to the organists one idea of my personal - and last - performance (no marketing). I stopped all concert in 1999 for many reasons so I count on organists as you to play (or record !) my organ works ! Thierry Pallesco

*Christ a vaincu la mort (Toccata) (26/01/88, 4'). Edited by Heinrichshofen - réf. N 2145 You can order this score at Di-Arezzo web site (or Heinrichshofen's web site).

All these other scores are published by Delatour France

To order all the following scores, click here

* = currently, the most popular works

Volume I - Editions Delatour-France. Réf. DLT 0012

- Toccata et fugue en Ut# (total = 7'33) :

*a) Toccata (24/11/1979, 4'33) for a full version, click here

* b) Fugue (20-22/04/2001, 3') for a full version, click here

- Toccata en ré (30/05/2002, 3'20) for a full version, click here

*- Le salut messianique (24/09/1990, 3'45) for a full version, click here : Portsmouth Cathedral Choirs (Marcus Wibberley, organ) From the Album Sing to the Lord

* - Au commencement... (Genèse, I, 1-2) (28/03/1989 et 23/12/1998, 4'28) for a full version, click here

* - Vers Toi, Seigneur, j'élève mon âme (31/07/1998, 5'02) for a full version, click here

Volume II - Editions Delatour-France. Réf. DLT 0029

* - Caprice poétique n°1 (25/03/1982, 2'52) for a full version, click here

- Caprice poétique n° 2 (25/06/0982, 3'10) for a full version, click here

- Caprice poétique n°3 (14/07/1982, 3'45) for a full version, click here

- Caprice poétique N°4 (31/01/2001, 5'23)

*- Variations (1980)

* - Harmonies en Paradis (21/02/1988, 3'05)

Volume III - Editions Delatour-France. Réf. DLT 0032

* - La Femme de l'Apocalypse (09/09/1977 et 09/1990, 5'07) for a full version, click here

* - Rhapsodie (07/06/2001, 7'47) for a full version, click here

- Evocation (30/08/1990, 4'05) for a full version, click here

- Petite suite : (total = 4'53) for a full version, click here

a) 1ère pièce (14/04/1989)

b) 2ème pièce (18/04/1989)

c) 3ème pièce (08/09/1989)

- Paraphrase sur "Hosanna filio David" (16/01/2002, 1'25) ; a very easy work.

Suite en FA (07/07/2001, total = 15') - Editions Delatour-France. Réf. DLT 0046 . This work can be even played on an ancient organ tuned to unequal temperament.

- 1er mouvement :

* a) Grave

* b) Andante

for a full version, click here

* - 2ème mouvement for a full version, click here

* - 3ème mouvement for a full version, click here

* - 4ème mouvement for a full version, click here

Caprice poétique N°5 (29/05/2008, 4'40) - Editions Delatour-France. Réf. DLT 1750

These scores are as well published by Delatour France et distribued by di-arezzo.com : 2 Préludes (niveau moyen), Parfums d'enfance (5 petites pièces faciles) pour piano, and 3 petites pièces faciles : Andantino pour Flûte traversière et piano , Andante pour clarinette et piano, et Adagio pour violon et piano.

Contact Thierry Pallesco : tpallesco@yahoo.fr

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III - Organ recitals/CD's including Thierry Pallesco's works :

Please, send me an email to exchange information

I) Recitals 2012 (m/d/y) :

- Kevin Bowyer, (University of Glasgow, Scotland) will perform the Toccata et Fugue en ut#, in Germany (two recitals in june 2012). Details later...

II) CD's :

The Salut Messianique was recorded by Marcus Wibberley (Portsmouth Cathedral) on the CD "Sing to the Lord" (2009), The Choirs of Portsmouth Cathedral, published by "Convivium records".

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IV - ERRATA LIST

The errata list only concern (in principal) the first edition (before 04/2003) ; please, check your scores !

Editions Delatour :

Suite en Fa :

- 1st part, bar 11 : F clef, 3rd beat, add a G half-note (4th space).

- 3rd part, bar 44 : (tempo) quarter-note = 56

Volume I :

- Le salut messianique, bar 67 : add the indication : "Lento molto legato".

Volume II :

- Caprice poétique n° 2, bar 5 : add the indication : "un poco più mosso" ; bars 18 and 46 : (tempo) quarter-note = 56 ; bar 13 : play staccato the eighth-note of the right hand ; bar 21: play staccato the eighth-note of the right hand ; bars 23 and 24 : last eighth-note of every bar, read G flat, and not F; bars 25 and 30 : the two last eighth-notes of the F clef, read them a lower third, G-E, and not H-G ; bars 4 and 17, add the indication "flat" on the top of the trill in the F clef ; bar 26, add the indication "C4" ; bar 31, add the indication "C3".

- Caprice poétique n°3, bars 1 and 36, add a fermata at the end of the bar ; bars 3 and 39, add a quarter-note rest at the end of the bar.

- Variations, bar 28 : on the top of the quarter-note rest, add the indication "{I", at the top of the staff in G clef.

Volume III :

- Rhapsodie, bar 119 : at the end of the bar, after the fermata, add the indication of registration "C8".

- La femme de l'Apocalypse, play all the score on the great organ.

2 Préludes for the Piano :

- Prélude n°1, bar 5 : add a sharp in front of every both last C following the two last natural C (in little notes) at the end of the bar.

- Prélude n°2, bar 30, last little note of the left hand, read C flat and not natural C.

Editions Heinrichshofen :

Christ a vaincu la mort (Toccata for organ) :

- Page 3, bar 5 (counting the bar with anacrusis) and page 9, last bar : G clef, 2nd beat, remove the sharp in front of the D in triplet (4th line) and add a sharp in front of the C in triplet (3rd space).

- Page 6, bar 8 : last note of the last arpeggio of the left hand, read F and not G.

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