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These two volumes of music contain reconstructions of improvisations in classical and contemporary styles. Like all improvisations, they came into being spontaneously, while I was travelling in search of those exciting and emblematic organs, whose beauty was my source of inspiration. Improvisation is ephemeral and dies away with the final chord. The advent of recording changed everything and some people asked for these pieces to be reconstructed in print. The commitment and the skill and the infallible ear of Christophe Robert were necessary to achieving this goal. I have made one or two modifications myself, here and there.
ETNA71, however, is a composed piece. I have tried to reproduce the noises, the sighs, the explosions and the raining-down of stones, with its crystalline sounds, all of which I had seen and heard during the violent eruption of Etna in April 1971: I was lucky enough to be present, at an altitude of three thousand metres, amongst the vents of the volcano.
Francis Chapelet
1. Ay triste que vengo (5'40'')
2. 3 improvisations sur l'Evangile (9')
3. Etna 71 (9')
