Organ Symphony no. 6 - Widor

First movement of Widor's 6th organ symphony

Pierwsza część szóstej symfonii organowej Widora. Polskich widzów odsyłam do linków zamieszczonych poniżej. Tam znajdują się informacje o instrumencie o których piszę po angielsku poniżej.

Organ:
The organ was originaly built by a German firm Sauer from Frakfurt in 1982 as Opus 2134. It was biult in a music school wich unfourtunatly was flooded in 1997. After the flood Sauer built a new instrument in this school (Opus 2270) using some of the parts from the previous instrument.
The rest of the 'old' Sauer organ was mooved to the church of the Holy Cross by a Polish firm "Cynar" from Wroclaw. It was then very much rebiult and extended. It is actually a totaly new instrument now, thogh the most beautilfully sounding voices are those built originaly by Sauer.
In my opinion the organ now is a big mish-mash. Cynar is a firm with no traditions which came into excistance when Poland was a communist country. His instruments are very rough sounding and biult very carelessly. Unfourtunatly after World War II this firm had a 'monopol' for building organs in Wroclaw as it was the only firm a those times (of course any contact with west Europe countries was strictly forbiden). Many churches and organs where destroyed during the war and Cynar was the one to built new instruments in them.
Sauer on the ather hand is a great German organbuilding firm whith long romantic traditions. They build many instruments in Wroclaw before the war (including one of the worlds biggest organ in the Centennial Hall mooved after war to the Wroclaw Cathedral).

Personly I especially like the sound of romatic stops in Sauer's instruments and perfect intonation.

That's why the instrument in the church of the Holy Cross sounds that good even thoug there is more Cynar than Sauer in it right now.
The other thing is the magnificent acoustics of the church - something incredeble.

Player:
Organ student in Wroclaw Secondary Music Shool - 5th grade.

Here are som links if you're more interested thou some are in polish, but the dispositions are rather clear
http://www.organy.art.pl/instrumenty.php?instr_id=569
http://www.organy.art.pl/instrumenty.php?instr_id=12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Hall

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[vkovacsjr]

Overall nice performance, however, at 7:40 the high climax of that phrase was missed, but did a good job recovering from it. I doubt the audience noticed even though I almost spilled my coffee.

[STASZK0]

@vkovacsjr Haha, I'm sorry for your coffee ;) Guess I got too excited about that climax that I've actually missed it...

[TreblRebl]

it really doesn't take three people to play this....

[STASZK0]

Primo:

Maybe on a 'super supported' american organ with heaps of pistons it doesn't, but that instrument doesn't even have a foot sequencer for the poor set of four free kombinations it has. So I'd like to see you playing it by yourself only, keeping the registration rather appropriate for this French romantic piece.

[STASZK0]

Secundo:

Page turners and registration helpers don't actually 'play' the music, do they? Does it really matter how many of them are there? One should listen to the music not look how many people stand by the console.

Maybe a comment on the interpretation of the piece? Immagine there's only audio with no video ;-)

Regards.

[mogemoets]

Sweetie Baby,

Tell us where this organ is, who built it, and who's playing it...!

It's clearly a world-class acoustic, and this kid can certainly play the organ!

Martin

The Queen of Sheba

[STASZK0]

mogemoets - please see the updated information about the video. I hope it will answer your questions.

Regards :)

[smoothshaver82]

Does your copy of the score contain something mine doesn't? What is "staccato - legato il basso" mean? Absolute legato isn't possible with the notes in the score unless you have 6 or 7 fingers on each hand. Widor could hide behind many seconds of reverb at St. Sulpice - watch D. Roth play it there - you can see staccato in his hands even when not indicated by Widor. And since when are the mixtures located somewhere other than on the chest with the reeds? Anches d'orgue includes mixtures.

[estatic17]

nice. great performance!

[MrQuebec]

Très bon!!

[hutzman76]

the climax is so cool that I guess you might as well play it twice!!

[phillyblizzard]

What a great talent! Extremely well done, maestro. It is a great pleasure to play this You Tube post, informative as well. Merci beaucoup.

[phillyblizzard]

What a great talent! Extremely well done, maestro. It is a great pleasure to play this "You Tube", informative as well. Merci beaucoup.

[omahas9000]

Stazsko, thank you for posting and your description! Great to watch and listen.