L. Vierne wasn't part of my musical instruction as a youth. I 'discovered' some of his Organ and Chamber Music in my late 30's and have been fascinated for 30 years since.

Each nocturne exudes it’s unique and distinct character. Perfection

no words for the beauty of number one. beautiful combination of the nocturne's ideas and motifs at 6:38 and marvellous texture are colour at 7:20. the second to last chord of the nocturne is also pure bliss. I remember listening to a few of vierne's pieces and not being all that convinced. hearing these I don't understand how that can be. those harmonies hit the spot exactly and the three nocturnes have such wonderful otherworldly and shattered (I don't know why, but many of the crunchier harmonies in these pieces evoke an image of shattered glass in my mind) colours and textures. the pianist also delivers an exceptional and colourful interpretation.

I've played Chopin, Field, and Faure Nocturnes, but these are new to me. Wish I found these sooner. Truly marvelous works!

Wonderful cycle. Each piece has got its own distinctive personality. I'd honestly not share the comments about Debussy influence. I hear more Faure than Debussy, here and - as the other way around - even something that may have served as inspiration to the young Poulenc. However those pieces are truly and genuinely stand-alone masterpieces, extremely personal and independent on any strong influence although, obviously, being children of their time and of the great French early XX century school.

These pieces are really masterworks!!!

I... can't understand this music. I've been playing for over 20 years but I consider myself an amateur pianist because I'm not a professional, and I've listened to classical music most of my life since childhood, and played mostly Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Lyapunov, Scriabin, Faure, Liszt, Wagner, Debussy, Kapustin, etc, but this is so unusual to my ears. It's not that I can't listen to more abstract compositions, but these are just so strange to me. Apparently all the people in the comments are much more musically educated than me since they find them so wonderful. I wish I knew what everyone seems to understand that I can't.

Musique oscillant entre racines classiques et impressionisme moderne et surtout très belle écriture non privée de clarté !

Non li conoscevo stupendi!

I have been aways curious if Vierne wrote for the piano also. And to my astonishment these pieces also portray his subtle details as he did his organ works. I will look up on his other piano works from now on.

Grande Vierne

no.3 is wonderful!

Bellissimi

I LOVE it. I haven't heard of Louis Vierne. I wish I had the score to try it. It's a great piece to show-off your ability to play, even better to sight read the piece. It reminds me of many Classical composers, and I don't mean composers from the Classical period, including Poulenc, Satie, Bortkiewicz, scriabin, Liszt and Chopin to name a few. It's the kind of music I like to stretch my small hands (a ninth).

Chef d'œuvre !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chopins nocturnes are quite easy to understand. Faure's are quite difficult to. These from Vierne are hard to. But all nocturnes from them are jewels of piano literature.

Beautiful music, should indeed be performed in public more often. Thank you for posting this, and by the way your translation from french is very good.

The second one is my favourite. It's the most concise.

It sounds very fresh and impressionistic

Reminiscent of Debussy’s richer works, but with more despair, reminds me of a grieg and rachmaninoff mix

these are really nice

Bonjour, il semblerait que pour le premier de ces trois nocturne, le premier accord de la mesure 6 main droite, soit des croches et non pas des noires ; ça ne se reproduit plus après.

Last 4 bara of the second nocture :)

i am not sure if the guy understood the first piece

These are beautiful pieces. But to mistakenly claim, as one person erroneously does here, that Claude Debussy "ripped off" Vierne by copying him is nonsense and chronologically inaccurate. Debussy performed in public many of his works, and wrote his Images from 1901 to 1907, that is something like a decade and a half before these pieces by Vierne.

15:56 Summer of 42 anyone?

Had no idea that Vierne wrote for the piano

Played mysteriously enough?

水漾夢幻

Debussy ripped this off!

hmm, Vierne knew Debussy, did Debussy kniw Vierne?