St. Sulpice in Paris Widor Plays Widor Pipe Organ
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There's nothing better than hearing composers playing their own music!
3 years ago 7
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I dont like Virgil Fox! To much Show!
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Talk about tingles down the spine. I have no adequate words.
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many thanks for this precoius recording!!!
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@marsvltor2 I completely agree with this assessment!
Listen, sometime, to Fox's Franck Grande Pièce Symphonique performance, on Pipedreams archives. The most hideous Franck playing ever conceived, and on one of America's most hideous pipe organs (in a dead concert hall!). Playing like that doesn't get any worse. The music completely disfigured.
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I was taught by one of his pupils, and have often visited Saint Sulpice. Last time it was closed due to refurbishment.
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Time cannot erase this gem from collective memory.
Such voices, textures, the glory of interior space
as if spoken from a higher plane of existence
where moments at the console bespeak
almost limitless powers of expression
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Glenn
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Special, indeed.
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A wonderful historical recording ! Beautiful sonorities !
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Unfortunately, no. There are only four known recordings of Widor.
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It's absolutely wonderful to be able to hear Widor himself play.
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Where did you get that very first photo? I love the sepia tone, and the overall look of it? Can you buy it?
stickershomeplus 2 years ago
Straight off the internet -- which is where all the photos on my uploads come from. But I'd be hard-pressed to tell you how to find it. Google "St. Sulpice photo" & rummage around in whatever pops up. And good luck ;-)
a55b47 2 years ago
Thankyou for that a55b47. Pity we can't see a video of the old man actually playing!
NiallMS 3 years ago
Now, that really would be something, wouldn't it? In this day & age, where everyone has a camera, we take for granted that there are pictures for everything. But back in 1932, film cameras were huge & not very portable, & required extremely bright & hot lights. I'm not sure they could have squeezed all that equipment into the st. Sulpice gallery -- even if they'd thought of it.
a55b47 3 years ago
Widor Did record the Toccatta at the st sulpice i have a recording of it.theres a break in the middle where u turn the record over. He played it VERY slowly though as by the time he recorded it he was 85.
simonsteam 4 years ago
See contratromba's comments farther down the thread. He was generous enough to send me an MP3 of his old recording, & you're right: it was very "stately." But we've certainly got to give him credit for his efforts ;-)
a55b47 4 years ago