Widor Toccata played on the organ at St. Patrick’s Cathedral NYC
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2025
- Widor’s famous Toccata played by Mr. Michael Hey on the gallery organ at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC.
(I’m sorry that it starts out sideways!)
•Recorded on June 28th, 2022 during the Hartford AGO’s Pipe Organ Encounter New York City field trip. 
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My Grandfather, Charles M Courboin, was the Organist and Choir Director at St Patricks for many years, including playing at Robert Kennedy's Funeral there.
How can anyone ever think this can be replaced by a piano or guitar, tambourine and flute. So many of our churches have silenced their instruments for amateur hour.
Carpet killed the organ in many of those churches.
Though I agree the organ is beautiful, the Catholic Church once was a very humble thing, before the holy roman empire, and the mass is meant for the lord, the music is used to glorify him. That doesn’t mean the organ isn’t absolutely amazing and beautiful. (Also every church should totally have them)
One of our churches here in Philly known for their pipe organ had that happen under the new Pastor.
It is always so satisfying and downright mystical to hear an organist and an isntrument equal to the magnificence of this Widor composition. Incedibly splendid!
This beautiful piece could never be played on the piano. Beautifully played on the organ St. Patrick's Cathedral is just magnificent. This piece wad beautifully played. Bravo
I can never get enough of this organ piece! I can listen to it all day long.
Keri this is quite a coincidence!! Lol
Yt just randomly recommended me this video and I didn't realize it was from our POE until I saw everyone in the video
What a nice, colorful version. Thanks from Germany!
Love the nice robust pedal in this.
A must-listen-to anytime it's played! Thanks, Michael.
No. Unfortunately it has become trite and overplayed just as Bach's Toccata and fugue in
d minor has. Plenty of other pieces to choose from. Sorry about that!
Perfect Register of the Organ
And played by the best organist! What a treat.
One of my favorite organists!
Great playing, as always, Michael! Greetings from St. Francis in Milwaukee!
Gorgeous! Thrilling!
Quite a beautiful piece, and instrument
BRAVO!!!
Ninguno tan bueno como éste. El órgano y la acústica impresionante. Queda maravillosamente para el final de una Misa solemne. El dominio del pedal es absoluto
Excellente!
Beautiful, now go play this on the M-L in Atlantic City please!😊
jim .... if you think this is a great organ .... ok. I may suggest to listen to this organ here in france ... that might change your mind ruclips.net/video/FQx4GSbWVYI/видео.html
@@Barrawitzkaa very nice, how many pipes?
YES THANK YOU!!!
Is that a 32 foot Bombarde towards the end?! Nicely played!
I've heard boatloads of performances of this movement from Widor's 5ht Organ "Symphony" as he called it. I really like this partial performance, for various reasons. It is but one of many interps. I *will* add that the composer himself, Charles Marie Widor, is on film (he was very, very old at the time, and it must have been the 1930s, the recording is that old too) and one hears an almost ponderous languishing tempo of performance. Nevertheless, Widor was hypercritical of today's sort of ah triple-tempo realizations. Pity. I really enjoy the more Allegro performances like this one IF the sounds of individual notes aren't obstructed, so to speak. Regardless, Mr. Michael Hay is gifted truly. This organ at St. Pat's isn't my fave, but you can't have it all, right?
I love this. From #bucharest
How can you do it in 3 min video cause it takes some 6 min? Nice sound but the video is not.
Too fast boys, too fast! Listen to Widor's own playing of this piece and learn.
Just American!
however, those who play this toccata too quickly find it difficult to finish it properly, it is very taxing for the right hand.
I kept listening because I was waiting to hear the crash!
But... ...no crash. Great athletic performance!
No, really, it's too fast.
I'm not a musician but I know piece well from recordings, and this isn't the complete Toccata!! Terrible waste of this great pipe organ!!
What a butcher job!
Too fast, and messy.