Guillou WIDOR Symphonie St Eustache with his cadenza

The great organist Jean Guillou plays a part of the "Allegro" from the Symphonie n°6 from Charles-Marie WIDOR with a Guillou's cadenza !!! Very interesting composition on the great organ van den heuvel in Sait Eustache - Paris

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[marsvltor2]

Couldn't agree more that we're different individuals now; however, if Guillou's performance WAS an improvement, I'd agree with your views on tradition. Roth's performance has one on the edge of one's seat (wonderful interpretation of the composer's thoughts); Guillou's, on the other hand, makes one wonder 'why bother'. And adding a cadenza isn't exactly new - Handel was doing it in his organ concerti nearly three centuries ago...

[marsvltor2]

Just listen to Roth from 5:20 to rejoin the work as it should be played...

[lagny666]

BRAVO Jean GUILLOU !!! Jamais je ne me lasseré des vos interprétations et de vos oeuvres !!

[Brockett122]

Love his crazy hair

[cliveso]

@redletterchurch You are not talking about the Arthur Nobile Jr. crap, are you? :-)

Good or bad, correct or incorrect, it doesn't bother me the least. The cadenza itself is harmonically inconsistent with the rest of the piece (that's bad, perhaps), but so what? Guillou makes me smile inside -- I just love his eccentric ways. Imagine him having this eureka moment when he suddenly thought, "how about a crazy cadenza there?"

[tomandsuehunter1]

Now this is great, unlike his rendition of Liszt B-A-C-H.

[megaswenson]

Now THAT is how Widor is supposed to sound! Utterly transcendent!

[wouterschalkoort]

@OrganPianoMusic  What do you mean by that?

[organ444]

Amazing skill, and so catchy too! loving the music, and the hair. Merci Mr. Guillou!

[thonyus]

We must remember, of course, that all musical developments were called obscene, until they were accepted. It would be interesting if we could listen to "experimental" Mozart with the ears of his contemporaries.

I hope, like many others here, that performances like this are not where organ performance is developing towards; I think this rendition is horrid, and profoundly disrespectful towards Maestro Widor. But maybe I am just a jealous Kappelmeister, like back in the good ole days.

[OrganPianoMusic]

@Organiste06 Yes that is right! This is a dutch instrument (van heuvel organ) so it is not THAT practical for french organ music!