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Marcel Dupr & eacute;s Fifteen Antiphons came into being as a set of improvisations played during the celebration of Vespers in Notre-Dame on 15 August 1919. Their true title, Les Vêpres de la Vierge, is also a clue to their true nature: a set of improvisations inserted into the choral liturgy, replacing fifteen items of it.
A centuries-old living tradition of such alternation between choir and organ (alternatim) lies behind Dupr & eacute;s Op. 18. On that 15 August1919 an Englishman, Claude Johnson, the General Managing Director of Rolls-Royce, was attending Vespers. A man of great vision and sensitivity, he was struck by the beauty of Dupr & eacute;s music and wanted to buy a copy of it.
On being told that it had been improvised, and therefore not written down, he at once persuaded Dupr & eacute; to try to recapture his original inspiration and commissioned the set of 15 pieces. They appeared the following year .
| Track | Duration | Title | Composer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 03:31 | Deus in adjutorium Dum esset rex/Ps 110 (109) | Gregorian Chant |
| 2 | 02:48 | Maestoso: Dum esset rex | Marcel Dupre |
| 3 | 02:15 | Læva ejus/Ps 113 (112) | Gregorian Chant |
| 4 | 02:31 | Tranquillo: Læva ejus | Marcel Dupre |
| 5 | 02:41 | Nigra sum/Ps 122 (121) | Gregorian Chant |
| 6 | 03:24 | Træs lent: Nigra sum | Marcel Dupre |
| 7 | 02:09 | Jam hiems/Ps 127 (126) | Gregorian Chant |
| 8 | 01:20 | Assez animé: Jam hiems | Marcel Dupre |
| 9 | 02:32 | Speciosa facta es/Ps 147 | Gregorian Chant |
| 10 | 02:08 | Andante moderato: Speciosa | Marcel Dupre |
| 11 | 00:51 | Ab initio/Ave maris stella | Gregorian Chant |
| 12 | 01:31 | Træs modéré: Sumens illud | Marcel Dupre |
| 13 | 00:24 | Solve vincla reis | Gregorian Chant |
| 14 | 01:42 | Lento: Monstra te esse | Marcel Dupre |
| 15 | 00:24 | Virgo singularis | Gregorian Chant |
| 16 | 02:32 | Adagio: Vitam præsta | Marcel Dupre |
| 17 | 00:24 | Sit laus Deo Patri | Gregorian Chant |
| 18 | 01:49 | Animato: Amen | Marcel Dupre |
| 19 | 00:21 | Dignare me | Gregorian Chant |
| 20 | 00:40 | Beatam me dicent/Magnificat | Marcel Dupre |
| 21 | 02:24 | Andante: Et exsultavit | Gregorian Chant |
| 22 | 00:19 | Quia respexit | Marcel Dupre |
| 23 | 02:17 | Maestoso: Quia fecit | Gregorian Chant |
| 24 | 00:16 | Et misericordia | Marcel Dupre |
| 25 | 01:24 | Allegro: Fecit potentiam | Gregorian Chant |
| 26 | 00:13 | Deposuit potentes | Marcel Dupre |
| 27 | 02:29 | Cantilena: Esurientes | Gregorian Chant |
| 28 | 00:16 | Suscepit Israel | Marcel Dupre |
| 29 | 04:09 | Misterioso: Sicut locutus | Gregorian Chant |
| 30 | 00:12 | Gloria Patri | Marcel Dupre |
| 31 | 01:22 | Finale: Sicut erat | Gregorian Chant |
| 32 | 02:17 | Beatam me dicent | Marcel Dupre |
| 33 | 04:12 | Salve, Regina | Gregorian Chant |
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