39 Pipe organ, Cathedrale Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, France

Recorded as part of Pipedreams tour of Historic Organs of Southern France on Tuesday 18 May 2010. The organ is played by members of the tour party.An opening fanfare is followed by the concluding section of Widor's toccata to his 5th symphony, and finally Boellmann - Priere a Notre Dame from Suite Gothique. The organ at Saint Sernin was built by Cavaille-Coll in 1889 and has 3 manuals,pedals and 54 stops(including 2pedal stops of 32').
*"Pipedreams" is a weekly audio presentation of pipe organ music and may be found at Pipedreams.publicradio.org

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[Southfrancepipedream]

Some of the recordings made the "cut" because the people who played them are special. Others because there was something memorable about all or part of the performance or indeed our visit. All recordings by visiting touring party members were unrehearsed on an organ none has seen before. Oh....and we are are not all American. Anyway, appreciate your opinion,... so thanks.

[a55b47]

Ah! The South of France. Great food, great wine, friendly people (mostly), great weather (generally). And some extremely interesting instruments. Thanks for uploading what was obviously a massive undertaking & a labor of love.

[OrganNLou]

This is certainly Cavaille-Coll's Magnum Opus of Orgues

[jeanseborg]

Pretty bad playing... Hope those americans heard this organ better then "that" !! Or a least I hope this is'nt the "best of" of that recital...