Widor's Toccata from his 5th Symphony
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Charles Marie Widor's (1844-1937) Toccata from his 5th Symphony in F-dur played on the organ in the chapel of St Stanislaus Institution by Janez Rus in December 2011. The mentor was doc. Dalibor Miklavčič
Descripton of the song trom Wikipedia (I find it interesting):
Widor's best-known single piece for the organ is the final movement, Toccata, from his Symphony for Organ No. 5, is often played as a recessional at wedding ceremonies and even at the close of the Christmas Midnight Mass at Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican City, Rome). Although the Fourth Symphony also opens with a Toccata, it is in a dramatically different (and earlier) style. The Toccata from Symphony No. 5 is the first of the toccatas characteristic of French Romantic organ music, and served as a model for later works by Boëllmann, Mulet, and Dupré. Widor was pleased with the worldwide renown this single piece afforded him, but he was unhappy with how fast many other organists played it. Widor himself always played the Toccata rather deliberately. Many organists play it at a very fast tempo whereas Widor preferred a more controlled articulation to be involved. He recorded the piece, at St. Sulpice in his eighty-ninth year: the tempo used for the Toccata is quite slow. Isidor Philipp transcribed the Toccata for two pianos.
This is an amazing performance. So many organists butcher the pulse of this piece in favour of speed - but this peformer really brings out the musicality of Widor.
This organist is fantastic, but it was just as enjoyable to watch the registrant!! He seemed to have that choreographed! Nice to have someone that dedicated to the performance knowing when and what to do!!! I have watched this over and over. Love it!!!
Best version on RUclips. Tempo is perfect, stops are set with precision, that was incredible.
You haven't heard Peter Hurford's or Olivier Latry's version then. They've got the tempo and articulation right as well.
It is perfect! Bravo Young Man!!!!!
@@PilferingMagpie and also a more sofisticated/automatic organ instead of seting each stop manually.
Magnificent rendition. A truly marvelous piece of music, brought to life by the organist and the registrant.
This is by far one of the bed version's ive heard on RUclips. Its nice when they're slowed down so you can actually enjoy the music instead of wonder if the organists fingers will catch on fire from moving so fast.
This is probably about as close a rendition to Widor's original, with all the stops carefully done (most impressive), which I have seen. As a performer of this piece (at Stanford University both in Memorial Church and at the Knuth tracker organ and as a student of Professor Herbert Nanney's, Department of Music), I can tell you, this is a very serious professional recording of the highest quality and artistic endeavor in front of a live audience. Top kudos to both the organist and the stop-expert!!!!!! Stuart Cracraft
Studied this piece in high school and college. Good stuff Mr. Widor (RIP) and Professor Nanney at Stanford (RIP)!!!!
Mighty fine
I concur.
🥂🥂🥂😆
Absolutely stunning rendition. I marvel at the skill of the musician and quality of sound. One of my favourite pieces or pipe organ music.
Registrant was basically a scarf-wearing crescendo pedal!
crescendo pedal at it´s finest!
Fter one year I'm here to say that I can't stop listening to this performance. It is magnificent.
Again BRAVO BRAVISSIMO to Janez Rus and equally to Dalibor Miklavcic.
Perfect tempo, Janez! People sometimes rush though these compositions as if it was a sprint. Perfect registration, perfect tempo! Wonderfully played! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I had this played at my wedding in 1983 I love this piece even to this day its beautifull such lovely memories thank you
Same for me in 1978. Alas she's there no more...
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Me too in 1984. Wonderful memories to cherish ❤
Absolutely beautiful performance. This particular piece is magnificent. You played it heavenly. With heart and soul. Bravo.
The registrant worked almost as hard as the organist!
Jim Hall b
Ummm no u actually dont play organ so you dont know how hard is that to play
Words can’t express my admiration for the talent and humility of the organist - yes he allowed so much of the drama of the piece go to the registrant....
Love this version
tempo---100%....stops- 100%....confidence 200%!!! BRAVO!!!!
It shows you how perfect a human being can be. A great artist.
The registration’s are very-good for this Widor’s Tocata from the 5th Symphony ! And bravissimo to the organist !
For once the Widor with dynamics - THANK YOU!
This is one of the most accurately played renditions of this magnificent Toccata! Excellent work Janez! It just doesn't get better than this! Janez, you are totally wonderful! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
EXCELLENT !! Outstanding. Nice rhythmus and Tempi exact.
Best ever heard till now. Many thanks.
Yes! A beautiful piece played without shoes, just like our organist used to play it when I was a kid. I was always moved to tears by this.
Thank you for not rushing. Beautiful
Is'nt this just perfect? Congratulations, young man. The best toccata on the whole internet, I think.
Magnificent! This is the best playing of Widor's Toccata I have ever heard.
This is the best and most wonderful version I've ever heard
so great to see a revival of interest in the organ by young male musicians!
Then covid hit. We can’t even get into the practice rooms at Crane (SUNY Potsdam, NY).
FANTASTIC, I so enjoy this piece, thank you Janez you are so talented. Brings back memories. You could almost be a twin to whom I knew who played it years ago. He too played in his socks. Great organists. 🙏🏽😊
Good tempo...thank you. Widor would be proud especially since many other performers butcher the tempo to show off! Well done. and continued good wishes.
I think is a little too slow. But the Dynamic is perfect.
Perfect
Very impressed by his playing ( and he is so young yet), and did yet someone notice he hasn't a note script in front of him, he does it al from memory.
I don't agree with people saying too much messing with stops, in my opinion it ads to the dynamics of this piece, and pulling and pushing the stops is excellent performed.
this music needs a lot of coloring of the sound so yes it needs a lot of stop changing.
No one ever said that Bach or any of the other organists didn't have people to register orgabns that had no ventils or mechanical combinations.
Janez, this is the most interpretive rendition of the Toccatta I have heard. The tempo was perfect. The registrations were awesome. And you performed this all from memory! I am truly humbled by your artistic sensibilities. Janez, your are totally awesome. May God Bless You, Always and Forever, Janez. ✝️
The registrants selections of stops was the most brilliant and lavash I ever heard. He created new depths of interest that can be found in W.'s Toccata. That being said, this kid needs a larger auditorium ( with reverb ). Dear Dr. Miklavcic... as you well know, that will mean enlarging his sense of staccato in the pedal. Every room is different. And it takes time to hear and... learn... the unique acoustics qualities of a room, particularly a full foot-ball size cathedral. Congratulations all around including your sound and video recording team. Great work. CVD
One of the best versions I have had the pleasure to hear :)
One of the best interpretation I've heard. Congratulation!
Dear Janez Rus, THANK YOU ! You brought tears to my eyes and ecstasy to my heart & soul.
Janez. I heard so many versions of this music. But I keep coming back to hear your version. Just eccellent in every way. Thank you.
Nice rendition of this piece. I like your tempo. This is the speed Widor wanted this piece to be played! Thanks!
Holy crap, someone other than Widor actually played it at the right tempo!
Simply amazing!!! Love how the second man played the stops.... brilliant and it completely added to the aura of this amazing piece!!! Bravo to the organist and Mr. Stopper man!!!
Wonderful. Elegant, restrained tempo. Thrilling to listen to.
Perfect tempo for this piece and a correct instrument for the note separation. Bravi, performer and technician!
Well I've heard many versions of Widor's Toccata but this one is absolutely excellent, and from memory too. Played very nicely with good timing and the management of the stops very good indeed. It's a great example of how the phrase "pull out all the stops" came about. Janez, I hope to hear lots more from you in the future. Well done!
Well, young fellow. Where have you been hiding? What a wonderful performance of this piece. Have you learned all of the 5th symphony. In you socks, no less. Well, good for you. After all, you don't wear coverings on your fingers, why should the feet be different. But the greatest feat of all - From Memory. Wonderful. Perfect, astounding. Now Fly into the wonderful world of French Symphonic music. At the last two chors, hold both a little longer - the grand French finale.
Whowoutstanding! The best Performer and best Registrant I have ever seen for that piece! Respect!
Fabulous recording ! Ranks right up there with Simon Preston and other great organists of our time !
what a brilliant and magnificent performance indeed ! many thanks Janez !
I have just listened again to this haunting yet to me wonderfull piece played well and perfect performance there is somehow I feel musical interaputation of life I deny anybody not to feel moved,
I am a practical man in my career all my life but somehow this playing and listening stimulates the mind into action
The playing of organ starts quiet and keeps repeating chords that finish to almighty powerfull ,all consuming attention.
A FEEL GOOD experience to me,this is the only way as a older man I can express enjoyment and will never tire of listening again and again👍👍
I played this piece for an organ recital when I was 22. It takes a LOT of practice for perfection! ONE thing that surprised me that this young man was playing on HIS SOCKS!! When I did my organ exams it wasn't allowed. I know I do at home, but none the less, well done.
In church I play in me socks, doesn't make a big difference. I actually think it's easier.
+Marguerite de Jonge Where can i find the sheet music for this piece?
+Giorgos Batzios: Go to Google and type in "where to find sheet music for Widor's 5th Symphony Toccata". When the site comes up, scroll down to "Toccata from Symphony 5 Free scores.com free music download. click on that, and another site will come up. Click on "view PDF", and the score will show up (7 pages). I'm not a computer whiz, but I think you can download it to print it off. If you can, try to enlarge the score, and hopefully it will be easier?? to read. I'm trying my hands at this piece after many years, and one thing that I know is, if you have learned something well, with little or lots of practise, stuff starts coming back to you. Wishing you much perseverance, and success!!
+Marguerite de Jonge I hear you.... I had to wear my organ shoes for my juries...I played Bachs Passaglia and this one... took me two years to learn it!!! But I did it!!! :)
+Giorgos Batzios Hi Giorgos... you can find this piece at any music store.
What can you say? Absolute mastery. Hard to say anything after that performance Wow! Lost for words, Brilliant.
Beautiful interpretation of Widor's Toccata. I haven't seen such a good performance nor heard an interpretation of such high quality of this for a loooong time! I agree that the stops are very impressive. Personally, who cares if he plays with socks or shoes?! as someone commented. My personal opinion is what counts is how the piece is performed. Well done!
I have played without shoes, and with shoes. Eeven a pair of high platforms as a 16 year old. Found dance shoes the best in the end though. Once tried ti in Swedish clogs which wasn't so good.
Das ist das richtige Tempo......dieses Durchhechten hält kein Mensch aus und geht auf Kosten des Stückes! Bravo! Tempo is perfekt!
Perfect tempo and dynamics
Beautifully performed and at a reasonable speed. Thank you for your musicianship!
Excellent performance.
I agree, it's nice to have some dynamics.
Bravo.
I like it so much! A pleasure to listen. Eine brillante Registrierung. Ich verstehe nicht viel davon, aber ich bin fasziniert und hin und weg von dieser Interpretation.
What a fabulous performance from this talented young organist. The few little glitches here and there make the performance more human and the synergy between the organist and registrant, together with the obvious pleasure of the few observers in the background, make this one of the most enjoyable performances of this piece on RUclips. Bravo!
My dear and lovely young Master! You just played it so perfectly that I can not say the word...All the organists use to speed in spite to "impress" ignorants but you undertook this beautiful job so at heart and seriously that I think Widor is smiling wide listening to your rendition! I do love your performance!🌹❤️🙏👏🌺🌺🌺💕
Very well played very clear, hard peice of music to play, Hope this is blasting out when our Lord jesus christ returns 🙏🙏🙏
My fingers ache after watching this (all the extra weight on the trackers)! And never mind the lack of shoes! Bravo! Great job!
Excellent job well done.
Been listening to many RUclips versions of this and this one is by far the very best of all.
Well done Janez, please please post more of your magnificent talent.
Every blessing
Wonderful to watch! Some exquisite registration nuances towards the end. Much more refined than most of the jackhammer renditions we hear. And playing in socks is so endearing ....
Just wow...! I was working at an FM station while in my college days and the program director selected this piece to put on the air during my shift and I had never heard it before. Here 60 years later and I recall how it gave me goose bumps and made the hair stand up on my arms. I was hooked on pipe organ music thereafter. Seeing how the stops are handled and the voices changing makes a difference in appreciation.
This is absolutely fantastic! Well done. Listened to it on my birthday and it made my day!
One of the best played performances of this I have ever heard...the right tempo not blazing fast like many others and not as slow as Widor himself. Rivals Ellsasser. Heard this piece recently played at the Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicag0...great organ...great performance by T. Weisflog
This genius piece is played tremendously well!
Piccolofloete I agree completely with you. :)
BRAVO
That is the one thing I have never been able to except for a few small songs, remember hard songs by memory.
Without written music I am lost.
BRAVO to the Organist..
JUST AMAZING! its so nice that you're people are doing this stuff!
Super Ausgezeichnet gut gespielt...ein tolles Stück von Charles Marie Wiedor, Toccata...!!! solche Orgelstücke höre ich immer sehr gerne mit grosser Begeisterung...!!! Lg...
He pulled out all the stops!!!!!!, great playing, great music!
One of the best I have heard to date.....
Magnificent!
Love this performance!
Truly imaginative registration!! Love it! Perfect pace, too!
This brought back some brilliant memories for me of watching my Choir Master, Mr David McCarthy, playing this (my favourite piece), sometimes, on the chapel organ on a Sunday morning, as the congregation left (and missed all the best of it!) As well as being a chorister, I was lucky enough to be his page-turner in the fifth and lower sixth form (1970s, Woodhouse Grove School, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK).
Thank-you for this (and also thanks for playing at the same pace, which is the perfect one, to my ears!) 👍
Brilliant, listened to this many times, I love this piece of music but this is by far the best version, it’s not in a massive cathedral so it makes the music sound more relaxed not too overpowering, expertly played
Very nicely done sir! I hope to hear and see more. The young lady with the short hair in the audience enjoys it too. Sweet smile!
Magnificent! Such talent! I come back to this again and again as I enjoy very much.
Beautiful!!!! Also I love the lady's reaction to how hard the registrant is working.
It is as interesting and informative to watch the registrant as to watch the keys and pedals.
Le gars qui met et enlève les jeux fait un super travail aussi... Bravo à tout les deux
Awesome. Perfect registration. Perfect tempo. Perfect expression. Bravo!
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this is not easy to play on this organ. great performance. from memory. lovely tempo. love the organ, such variety of reeds, colorful. great action as well as cooperation between performer and assistant. dynamics. this is the real deal, no digital crap here. would have loved to be there.
Odin Son u
Quel talent!!! Bravoooo!!! On perçoit toute la profondeur de la partition grâce au rythme de l'interpretation de ce jeune musicien... qu'il vienne jouer la Toccata dans la cathédrale de Sarlat sur le grand Orgue de Jean-François Lépine de 1752.
Never seen nor heard such a splendid performance. Many thanks.
Magnificent. I just finished listening to a version done by Widor himself not long before he died. I think he would approve of this version! Well done. Well done, indeed!
Awesome - really is pulling out all the stops!
We were fortunate to be walking past the organ at the climactic section as we exited from our nieces wedding at Ely cathedral - unforgettable
I just wish he had some bright colored socks on while playing this piece. Loved it!
I loved his attitude at the end. Just finishes off and is just like "Meh, just finished, not bothered".
Finally someone playing in stockings! So I am not the only one. 😏
Yes, amazingly, masterfully well played.
Truly the best version of this piece I have ever heard,spoilt only by the coughing lady...
Ah, another organist like myself that does not wear shoes while playing.
I tought that i was the only one
Add me to the list (Who wants scratches on the pedals?^^)
Guess I'm not alone then. Shoeless organists sounds like some kind of cult lol.
Another shoeless organist here!
I do too! 😊
Wonderful all around. Thanks guys!!!! Bravo.
Great performance!! Excellent!! Bravo!
Excellent! Many of us play this far too fast, in order to "hide" the notes we can't quite manage!! Here every one note sings perfectly.
Bravo... 👏
Very Moving and beautiful!!
Thank you. It's been seven years and I would love to hear you play it now. Always makes me tear up. We grew up with a pipe organ - 3/13 Wurlitzer - and my father used to play this every Sunday morning. We were huge fans of Widor. One of my favorite records is E. Power Biggs playing this. You take my breath away with this.
Wow! I've never seen that much difference in playing this piece! I didn't know it took two people to play this piece? Great performance!
wonderful registration and perfect tempo for this instrument.
The Best Version on You Tube...Beautifull tempo and stops....Congratulations ;)
Mesmorising and mind-boggling coordination.
Brilliant, just shows what can be achieved on a 'not so big an organ'.
Truly Stunning! Very Well Done