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Widor's Toccata - or - Widor's 5th Symphony in F - Movement V - Toccata

Full Symphony - http://www.youtube.com/view... The fifth and final movement-often simply Toccata-of Charles-Marie Widor's Fifth Symphony for Organ in F Major, the very famous Toccata. The organist ...  
 
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ds1868 (1 day ago) Show Hide
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@willowthebored That is a good point. I have two excellent recordings using this registration of diminuendo at this point: Philip Ledger at King's College Cambridge, and Simon Preston at Westminster Abbey. However these two locations are more intimate - you are closer to the instrument and the effect is worthwhile. At NDdeP the organ is way distant at the top of the nave, and this effect may be lost. Certainly in a normal service, not worth it, all the noisy customers would drown it out!!!
chamade216 (2 days ago) Show Hide
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This is from Cochereau's era, the chamade's are on top of everything which is nice!! :-)
Tetsuo315 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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I like the whole registration but would not have added the en chamade until the final section before the cadance
willowthebored (1 week ago) Show Hide
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I think I'd have added them where he did, but I'd have removed them again and put them back in for the cadence.
dulzian64 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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I agree with you
Tetsuo315 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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I agree. While listening and looking at my score I was trying to figure out how to remove them.
advisorC101 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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I would NOT have added the en chamades on this organ at all.
muslador21 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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THIS -- brilliantly executed! Listen to those chamades at the end just barking away!!! I love Philippe Lefebvre, one of my favorite musicians in the world --, but there's a clip on here of M. Lefebvre playing the Toccata at Chartres, and it's completely a mess.
kriswilkes (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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This piece is very special to me. It reminds me of my reunion with my father after not seeing him for 10 years. When I was 10 years old my father stop visiting following a messy divorce. I remember sitting in his front room and he played me this after explaining about the organ and ever since it has sent shivers down my spine. I have a fantastic relationship with my father now and this piece is my memory of the reunion. It's perfect.
MrAlex413x (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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ok thank you for that is sounds AMAZING !!! i take it he has the 32' going aswel wil it be the 32 ' reeds i mean

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