Widor Toccata - 5th Organ Symphony Opus 42 No1

Charles Marie Widor's 5th Organ Symphony Opus 42 No1 -Toccata

Recorded on March 29, 2007

Oh yea and thanks for everyone's infos and tips, but by now, I think I got this piece mastered already.

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• Charles
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[ISE65]

"I think I got this piece mastered already."

You play it very well, but you haven't got it mastered: always strive for perfection, and never let arrogance get in the way. Keep working, for you are clearly very talented.

[simonjamie]

Why are there so many people out there who are just either RUDE or incredibly STUPID. This is a performance by a very young performer and it is a terribly hard piece to play. Give the guy a break and STOP posting such ridiculous and unworthy comments.

[chenrikl]

@darktangent10 I have a similar tempo indication in my sheets at home, but the interpretation by Widor himself can't be ignored. I'm not saying that this tempo is wrong, I'm just saying that when played this way, many organists make it sound like a giant mess of sound with no structure. The staccatos in the sheets are rarely implemented these days. I prefer the slow style, but as for which tempo is truly right, Widor's performance or the tempo indication, we can never know.

[darktangent10]

@chenrikl This was the tempo he indicated when he composed the piece

[darktangent10]

@funwiththethe I played RCT2, I don't remember this piece being in there...

[mudgebauer]

You play it very well, but the sound quality is terrible. It sounds like a crappy electric organ, not a pipe organ.

[trompettechamade1]

While you play it excelently, any good musician you never really master a piece in the sense of there is nothing more you can learn about it. Near the end of his career, the eminent conductor Sir Georg Solti went back to the scores and re-studied the symphonies of beethoven, which he had already recorded several timed over. Keep looking at very familiar pieces many times over and you will keep discovering new things in them. Keep up the excellent playing and the best to you!

[plutonium136]

WOOOOO! all the other people who play this can not measure up to how you play this wonderful piece. Even i could not play this piece as well as you could.

but there is always room for improvement

[funwiththethe]

This is wicked. I remember this from roller coaster tycoon 2...brings back so many memories. I'm going to try to make this on noteflight for my own piece :)

[hawchubby39]

Young man, you have inspired me to take up lessons again...I never had discipline when I was a young kid, and totally regret not sticking to the lessons I should have taken when I was 10. I'm 43 now and here I go.

Don't let the criticisms get to you. This is youtube and everybody becomes a critic here. Just keep up the good work. I would like to know what instruments you are playing on. I love pipe organs and would like to get how many ranks are there? Info like that, if you could?

[DanielDHowe]

I find it fascinating that you play it all on one manual; good clarity in your playing.

[gtimny]

Well done. And at a good tempo. I think most of the folks who carp about Widor's performance tempo being the "correct" one have no idea that he was nearly 90 when that recording was made. He was lucky to be able to get through it at all given that he was playing a 5 manual mechanical organ with all the couplers engaged. Widor's recording is an important historical document but the fact is that his playing was pretty messy and much slower than his own tempo marking.