Jennifer Bate

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There are several artists with that name: 1. a British organist, 2. an American singer. 1) Jennifer Lucy Bate OBE (11 November 1944 – 25 March 2020) was a British concert organist. She is known for recording the complete organ works by Olivier Messiaen, guided by the composer, but also recorded, among others, English organ music, and the complete organ works of César Franck, Felix Mendelssohn and Peter Dickinson. Life: Born in London, Bate was the daughter of H. A. Bate, organist of St James's at Muswell Hill from 1924 to 1978. She was considered an authority on the organ music of Olivier Messiaen, having befriended him within the last twenty years of his life as his organist of choice. In 1986, she gave the first British performance of his Livre du Saint-Sacrement at Westminster Cathedral and later made the world premiere recording of the work under the personal supervision of the composer,[4] winning the Grand Prix du Disque. She recorded the works at the Eglise de la Sainte-Trinite in Paris, and at the Beauvais Cathedral. He also endorsed her earlier recordings of all of his other organ works. Bate owned scores which contain many personal markings and references made by him. Bate had a broad repertoire spanning several centuries. She recorded the complete organ works of César Franck and the complete organ music of Felix Mendelssohn, which was reviewed mentioning the "easy fluency of her technique" and "her highly articulate and intelligent interpretations". She recorded

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Olivier Messiaen - The Celestial Banquet, Nativity of the Lord

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Virtuoso French Organ Music

Olivier Messiaen : Le banquet céleste, la nativité du Seigneur

Messiaen: The Organ Works

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Mendelssohn: Complete Organ Works, Vol. 4

Wesley: Organ Music

Mendelssohn: Complete Organ Works, Vol. 5

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Olivier Messiaen - The Ascension, The Bodies in Glory

Messiaen - La Nativite du Seigneur, Le Banquet Celeste, Apparition de l'Eglis...

Bate: Organ Music

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Messiaen - Messe de la Pentecote etc.

Liszt: Fantasia and Fugue 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam'; Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H; Variations on 'Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen'/Schumann: Four Sketches

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