Kalevi Kiviniemi plays Widor's "Toccata" at St.Ouen, Rouen, France
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- Опубликовано: 16 апр 2013
- Happy Birthday, Cavaillé-Coll Organ at Saint-Ouen, Rouen, France! Kalevi Kiviniemi joins the party and plays Toccata (from 5th Symphony) by Charles-Marie Widor. On 17 April 1890, Widor himself played this piece as the last one in organ's inauguration recital.
We decided to put this video online on the very same day to celebrate this magnifient organ, cathedral and its stained glass paintings, architecture and acoustics. Video was recorded in 2008 during the recording sessions of Kiviniemi's "Cavaille-Coll" -CD/Super Audio CD (OrganERA vol.14, FUGA-9282, www.fuga.fi). As far as we know, this is the only video of Widor's Toccata, from Saint-Ouen, that is recorded and filmed live in professional quality.
Organ in Saint-Ouen is one of those rare instruments from a French organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, that are remained untouched to our days, no alterations has been made. Many organ freaks also know this organ from its very loud reed stop, Bombarde 32, in Pedal, generating 16 Hz tones at its lowest. It sounds like a four-motor WWII bomber flies over! Still it blends perfectly with other stops. In video, there are some shots of Bombarde pipes behind the organ. They do not look special, but - listen...
This video was specially made and prepared for RUclips. Audio was taken from high quality multi channel recording setup, not from video camera's built-in microphone. The better your computer's audio system and especially the speakers and the subwoofer are, the better is the sound. Video was filmed in full HD, please enjoy the better picture quality that it offers (720p, 1080p). In 720p and 1080p versions also audio quality is better.
We really hope that you enjoy this special anniversary video!
Video, audio, editing and description by Mika Koivusalo. 
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My deepest condolences to maestro Kiviniemi's family and friends due to his sudden passing. May Lord Jesus receive you home with this great toccata playing at the gates.
Ein bemerkenswerter Künstler ist viel zu früh von uns gegangen! Danke für die großartige Musik Herr Kiviniemi! Rest in peace🕯
How could anyone on this planet dislike this!? Every single aspect was absolutely spot-on!!! I still have chills all over my body!
It's rhythmically sloppy, for one thing.
I find the sound mushy for lack of a better word. It's confused. Lacks definition.
Too fast. If you haven't heard the Cochereau 1959 or Widor 1932 recordings, go check those out! They are very masterful
Nah.... Not even close.
Too fast!
I was fortunate enough to hear it at St Sulpice two weeks ago, I was beside myself. I had to pinch myself, I just couldn't believe it I was so lucky to hear it being played there whilst visiting Paris.
32 foot Bombardes are usually laid flat due to lack of space in the organ chamber. Ive walked among them wearing ear defenders when the organ is being played at full power. The sheer power of the pedal bass nearly crushes your chest. Its awesome
not here it isn't! the contre bombarde is full length and unmitered. It's visible at 4:08
Nothing beats the Cavaille-Coll organ!
Sometimes a musical composition can reach your soul. This is one of those numbers, for me at least.
One day I want to go hear this instrument in this church.....so famous!!!
Rest in peace 😢 Wonderful organist!
This instrument is one of the great monuments of organs. I almost "pee" my pants when I hear this organ. I've been so blessed to have heard this organ at least two times in the last 20 years and each time I hear it I swear I've heard it for the first time!
This man understands the organ he is playing on and the acoustics it is playing into. That's why his tempos is just right here. Well done, Sir!
Heard this in the Dom of Regensburg in August 2021. The setting and incredible sound gave me goosebumps and tears in my eyes... If this is the last thing I hear in my life, I die happily...
You don´t see many Finnish people here. But when you do see and hear them.
They are always brilliant.
Kiitos, Kalevi Kiviniemi, meinasi henki lähtä kun katsoin ja kuuntelin.
This instrument is one of the greatest organ masterpieces of all time. The sound of full organ at St. Ouen always brings goosebumps to my body and tears to my eyes. It's out of this world. Aristide Cavaille-Coll was a genius at his craft.
Yeah, you have to hear the right piece in the right cathedral. This piece of music was enough of a justification for building that grand organ.
@@krischan67 Cesar Franck, Widor, Vierne, Dupre... This instrument is made for them!
@@paulcaswell2813 And don’t forget Gigout!
And to think this is the only unaltered, original Cavalier-Coll organ out there!
@@Todd1356 S. Sulpice (Paris) isn't far off original either.
Nothing like "a true recital". Sit down with the clothes on your back and what's in your hands,feet and especially your heart. BRAVO!!!!!
I love this monster machine! Perhaps M. Cavaillé-Coll's finest masterpiece!
OMG the power at 5:04 is unbelievable, as an organist myself, iv'e never ever heard an organ with such a deep and loud note!
and it's only an F, the organ can go a 4th lower than that ! A well made Bombarde 32'... too rare
This is my favourite performance of this piece. Here the composition, the instrument, the location and the performer, all sublime on their own, come together to form or rather reflect something where the sum is greater than its parts. This is conveyd beautifully by the video and its editing. This is a glimpse Beyond. Rest in peace, maestro!
Widor was afraid that his prayers might not be heard by God. So he wrote them down in musical form and sent them to God through Cavaille -Coll
"Fire the Contre Bombardes" haha
Thank you for letting me know that!❤️🦋🦓🦋❤️🎠
Excellent !
Coll is a god.
@@Barefoot12
I ask forgiveness from Allah because He said, “Say: He is Allah , one. Allah is eternal. He did not give birth, nor was He born, nor was there anyone equal to Him. Allah Almighty has spoken the truth.”
Love the organ. Played wonderfully as well. Love the bombardes.
I keep playing this. Absolute favourite, true musician,
Despite the concentration that's needed to play this magnificient piece, you can see in Kalevi Kiviniemi's face and in the sparks in his eyes that he is truly enjoying this.
The basses and the echoes are monumental. What an organ, what a cathedral, what a piece of music and what an organist!
It was a monastic foundation (now deconsecrated and used as a concert hall). The Rouen Cathedral itself is not a patch on S. Ouen either building- or organ-wise.
@@paulcaswell2813
Sigh!
The huge pedal reed is the 32' Contre Bombarde. The lowest note generates 16hz of sound
@@paulcaswell2813 there are still messes in, it is not deconsecrated
@@maxairmodels7796 Thought it was just used for art exhibitions and stuff these days. St Ouen always looks bare and barren.
This is by far the best performance. The organ and organist is amazing. Had this at our wedding fifty years ago and just love it.
Absolutely! Break tradition and renew your vows for #51 and defy the pandemic with a repeat celebration. Hire this organist if you can, and share the video with us.
So many organists either play too fast, too slow or don't open the organ really up. This one he let 'er rip! We had this at our wedding too, leaving the church as did my parents. When I told the organist what was to be played, she got white. lol but did a good job
Wow, if this piece is played at your wedding, then you guys are very lucky!
It's too fast, Widor intended it slower.
I'm privileged to be witness to a RUclips discussion between members of the nobility, reminiscing about their wedding day. And I thought my wedding was fancy for having a live band.
I think that Cavaillé-Coll Organ's have a unique sound that is rarely heard in modern organs today !
To all Cases
Wow, he makes the playing looks so enormously easy! And what a fantastic registration!
Jeepers, those chords and reverb at the end!! Goosebumps.
This piece is my Fathers favorite music, especially THIS recording of it, my dads dad served with the Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great 1914-1918 War and was posted to Rouen in 1916/17 the soldiers used to have 'Church Parades' in this very Cathederal, since finding the connection i wanted to take my dad to see where his Father served and probably prayed for his deliverance.....which thankfully was granted, so very emotive for me now that my dad is too old to travel and wishes will go unanswered.
As an organist for 40 years this ,my favourite piece ,is perhaps the. Best I have ever listened too!
Such expertise with no music to glance at.
Truly superb
Das ist nach meiner Meinung mit die Beste Orgel die ich kenne.
Der Klang ist einfach majestätisch.Es macht richtig Freude dieses Instrument an zu hören.
Now that's a 32' BOMBARDE. This organ is the best I've heard on RUclips in every one of its video postings. It must be incredible to hear in person, and probably even more when you play it. This performance is just AWESOME! Perfectly played! Bravo to the organist! I agree with the person who said the balcony must shake when that organ begins to thunder. This organ makes the sound of full organ gorgeous.
You should hear it in the context of the finale of Widor's 8th Organ Symphony!!!! OMG!!! ruclips.net/video/YLSVTKxvFR0/видео.html
Caville Coll were the FINEST organs EVER built to date. Powerful and frankly AWESOME when played by a talented organist as here.
Has anyone ever tried to play a FIFTH in the last chord of this Toccata playing the Cavaillé-Coll organ and having 32' Contre-Bombarde on? I mean, it could sound interesting, awesome, or disastrous :D
@@geuros the physics of it would start to cancel out some of the harmonics so it wouldn't sound as good or monstrous as the 32 itself on one note that allow all the harmonics including the fifth in it to speak naturally interrupted.
@@jamaicanpianistcomposer interesting, I know that with 16' for example, it sounds like 32' imitation, there are organs where 32' stop is even done by activating 16'+10 2/3' stops (which is equivalent to playing fifth on 16' alone I guess), but it doesn't sound like true 32'. Hence I don't know what the effect would be on 32', if it would emulate 64' or rather cancel itself. But you're probably right as I'm definitely not the first one to think about it and it's just not being used, for a reason probably.
Beautiful! I just learned this and I wish I could play it on that beast!
Rest in Peace Kalevi!
One of the worlds great organ maters, playing one of the worlds great pipe organ treasures.
Le Chef d'Oeuvre absolu de Cavaille , une merveille ,
Kiitos Kalevi ystävyydestä ja elämyksistä joita meille teit,me kaipaamme sinua ja sinun suurta persoonaa, maailma on paljon köyhempi ilman sinua😢
Dear God! I would have "wet my pants" to hear this in the real! This instrument is truly the "King of Instruments"! Thank you for posting this outstanding performance!
This person has the aforethought to know that one cannot attack this monumental composition with breakneck speed. His knowledge and understanding of the the music and the organ is truly an exciting event. Bravo maestro!
One of the best performances.
I must have listened to this dozens of times and every time it makes me shudder and put goosebumps on my goosebumps. WOW.
This is my favorite rendition of this piece on RUclips.
Having heard and seen this, I am crying.
Amazing and from memory too. What an organ.
I HAVE to hear this at least four times a day many different renditions I love them all so moving and uplifting❤️
I love your approach to life! 🙂
Now this IS an ORGAN!
Such power in this performance---wonderful!
This is probably one of the most outstanding performances of this piece I've ever heard! It has coherence and musicality which makes this performance a benchmark of this composition. I know that most modern listeners want to hear this piece played at breakneck speed...but..then we miss the subtle harmonies that make this a masterpiece.
Widor and Cavaillé-Coll probably have embraced each other in tears after Widor played this at the inauguration of this amazing organ.
Perfection to the limit and beyond. I can't stop listening to this video, it's heavenly fantastic!
Absolutely Beautiful !!!
Rip Kalevi Kiviniemi
Loved this performance. The power of this movement is amazing!
Wow!!! This is probably the best performance I've ever found on RUclips! Excellent choice of registration, good tempo, excellent organist, majestic organ, and those live acoustics!! About 8 seconds before the reverberation was gone!
It blows me away every time❣️
The best one is the one the composer recorded. He knows how he wanted it played, tempo and everything. He wouldn't have approved of this, played too fast and too many of the details lost in the reverberation of the building.
Magnificent performance on an equally magnificent pipe organ. WOW!
Merci Mille Fois, Maestro! Fabulous performance. Kudos!
Fantastic recording of one heck of an organ!
I LOVE the bass!! This is the deepest I've heard on this piece.
The most amazing thing is not the loud bass, but how could Cavaille-Coll design, scale, and voice a pedal Bourdon that could sit under anything in the 4.5 million cubic feet of this space. Guess that's why he's called genius.
Un délice! Merci beaucoup pour ce moment de pur bonheur musical.
This organ really growls, and I mean that in a very good way!
Simply one of the best I have heard.
Magnifiques sonorités que celles de ce superbe Cavaille-Coll ! Et quels graves !
Bravo Maestro Kiviniemi! Neat that Widor played the same piece on the same organ. In 2000, I had opportunity to play the organ at the Riga Dom, which Franz Liszt composed the music for the dedication of that organ when it was newly installed.
This always reminds me of my mother who used to play this as a postlude at our church.
A great organist. Friend of good music is also my friend. Will miss. ❤
Magnifique music at a real pearl of an organ! What a piece of art!! The music, but also the organ!!
Mind Blowing!
Outstanding. Really enjoyed this. Love the French composers..!!
Es gibt keine Worte, die auch nur annähernd meine Empfindungen beim Hören dieser außergewöhnlichen Aufnahme ausdrücken können! Das Werk, die Orgel, die Akustik und vor allem der Interpret - alles absolut majestätisch! * There are no words which could describe my sentiments while listening to this extraordinary recording! The opus, the organ, the acoustics, and especially the organist - they‘re all absolutely majestic!
Definitly, music is the biggest wealth and good on this planet. Bravo pour Maestro!
In the 1970's I was a student of Marie-Claire Alain. She asked me if I would like to come with her to Rouen. She was to play Handel concertos. She rehearsed to the tune of workers dropping steel platforms on the stone floor of the cathedral for set-up. Madame Alain never flinched. Her mind was with Handel. My time with this artist is what I am now.
Bob Waters What a privilege to be present with her and witnessing all that and hearing her work! Envy!
wonderful story- and a testament to the power of.... music(real music)
In Nancy in 1978-9 I was supposed to hear her but she had an accident -she´d burnt her hands so I missed that oppportunity while living in France which I have regretted to this day!
You LUCKY LUCKY MAN!!!
Marie Claire, rest her soul! She was teaching in Romainmotier all those years, mostly how French music influenced Bach and vice versa. Somewhat chauvinistic. She had a good memory, but didnt really memorize all that much, recorded a lot more, especially Bach on period instruments. In later years, she mostly plugged her deceased brother Alain and her father Albert. The latter is still not fully published. Dissertation topic for you?
What an awesome sound!
RIP Kalevi Kivinemi
Wow! Just… wow!
I am amazed the balcony and walls havent collapsed from all the vibration of the organ.
The stone is sturdy, the ivories on the keyboard, not so much. I'm surprised to see how poor the condition of the keys are.
dlwatib Well, they have been in use for well over 100 years, and it’s almost impossible to replace the keys with ivory because of the ethical issues surrounding the use of ivory, and one cannot replace the keys with plastic on such an important instrument.
@@at0mcollision There was apparently also a water leak that damaged the keys but just barely missed the rest of the organ.
Pure Power!
Astounding!!! Wonderful instrument, and brilliant performance!!!
Thrilling in every way. Magnificent instrument, excellent played by a great Master. THANK YOU for sharing this with us.
This is my favorite rendition of this best-of-all-possible Organ works. Perfect pacing (often too fast or too slow), perfect organ, acoustics, performance, and recording. Bravissimo!
32 foot Bombarde -- next item on my Christmas list!
I have a catalog from an organ building company in Hungary. For about 12500 euros you have one 32 foot rank with 44 pipes :-) But then you still need a blower, pressure regulator, a giant windchest, manual and all the connecting bits.. I would account for a few million euros for such an organ :D
I just recently bought a Rodgers 599, classical organ for practice and personal enjoyment. The instrument has 3 manuals. And very good reeds, a Montre 32 and Contre Bombarde 32 { via midi } , with external speakers. The sound is, well, you can imagine what full organ is like. The best part is that I live on a farm so I can play the Organ as loud as I like, day or night!
Same. Hope my mom admits to it
The one on this instrument, I am told, is three feet across at the top. You might need an addition.
[Umbridge] Bombarda... Maxima! BOOM! [/Umbridge] This thing is madder than a box of frogs.. usually I go gaga over the German and Dutch organs, but this Frenchie is a monster! (Montre?)
WIDOR lors de l' inauguration de ce grand 32 pieds, l'avait comparé à une oeuvre de Michel ange pour son touché et ses couleurs sonores merveilleuses , et c'est encore vrais merci Mr CAVAILLE COLL .
Thanks for the detailed explanation regarding the organ's history and of this great performance by Kalevi Kiviniemi. - A pleasure to listen to such a wonderful performance, and also thanks to the great composer Charles-Marie Widor. A fine performance in filming and taking the sound, all well done, sheer delight!
absolutely fabulous Thanks for offering this video for the eyes and ears.
J’ai vu et entendu cet orgue pour la première fois au début des années soixante, lorsque mon père m’a emmené à la console un dimanche matin pour regarder l’organiste jouer à la messe chantée (vous pouviez faire ce genre de choses à l’époque). Je devais me familiariser avec l’orgue, l’entendait plusieurs fois au fil des ans avec son homologue dans la cathédrale à quelques rues plus loin. C’était un frisson alors, c’est encore toutes ces années plus tard d’entendre le même orgue et un maître de son jeu à la barre.
I first saw and heard this organ in the 1960s when my father took me up to the console one Sunday morning to watch the organist playing at the Sung mass (you could do that sort of thing in those days). I was to become quite familiar with the organ hearing it many times over the years along with its counterpart in the Cathedral a few blocks away. It was a thrill then, it still is all these years later to hear the same organ and a master of his game at the helm.
That ending when holds f key and pull down two registers. :D goosebumps
Despite the sadly neglected outward visual state of this magnificent instrument it still plays and sounds incredibly well. Great post
How can anyone let an instrument like this not be restored ?
@@markevans2280 It hasn't been restored. That's it's glory: it's pretty well exactly how Cavaillé-Coll left it.
Personally, I don't think it looks neglected.
Just love this piece and the way it is played is sublime, truly the very best you will ever hear a true master.
ces basses nom de dieu ces basses j'adore, parfait tempo pour moi !
I hear this as "Organ theme" in rollercoaster tycoon 2! This is the most epic version I have heard so far. Great job!
That's amazing lol
Kalevi oli kesäkanttorina Kuopion tuomiokirkossa 1979 ja ehdotti tätä Toccataa meille häämarssiksi. Ja sen hän myös soitti meille. ♥ Kiitos!
One of the masters. We will miss him.
Cette toccata est une pure merveille,toute en puissance,et en même temps en subtilité
Les prises de vues sont une réussite
*****5+ pour ce moment de pur bonheur
Wat een prachtig orgel en prijs de arbeiders die daar aan gewerkt hebben.
Entrance for my wedding, "I Was Glad"--Perry. The exit from church will be this.... goodness! Gives one goosebumps!!
Thanks for a beautiful video, this is the first time that I have ever seen close ups of this magnificent instrument.
Best of 👍👍👍😁😁😁, thanks a lot!
this is my favourite song,the sound it s like a thunder
Brilliant! Best version I've heard, I reckon. Too many organists don't hold that last note long enough, but that was perfect!
If they don't hold that F at the top, it's always a mediocre interpretation for me. 100% agree with you.
Magnificent!
WOW 🏆🏆🏆 !! Thanks so MUCH for this UNIQUE & MARVELOUS interpretation 🙏 💫 🌹🌹🌹
The very best footage of the organ itself!
Thank you so much!