Widor Toccata played on the organ at St. Patrick’s Cathedral NYC

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  • Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
  • 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.

Комментарии • 32

  • @jgesselberty
    @jgesselberty Год назад +53

    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.

  • @cdf6333
    @cdf6333 Год назад +20

    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.

  • @lindaatzenhoefer8536
    @lindaatzenhoefer8536 10 месяцев назад +6

    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

  • @Michael_VG
    @Michael_VG 2 года назад +4

    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

  • @michaelpfaff6009
    @michaelpfaff6009 6 месяцев назад +1

    One of my favorite organists!

  • @markfortuin7111
    @markfortuin7111 Год назад +1

    And played by the best organist! What a treat.

  • @jgesselberty
    @jgesselberty Год назад +4

    Love the nice robust pedal in this.

  • @davef.2811
    @davef.2811 2 года назад +14

    A must-listen-to anytime it's played! Thanks, Michael.

    • @mccxcccx7793
      @mccxcccx7793 2 года назад

      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!

  • @jdkoozer
    @jdkoozer 2 года назад +6

    Perfect Register of the Organ

  • @Bildungsrebell
    @Bildungsrebell 2 года назад +4

    What a nice, colorful version. Thanks from Germany!

  • @MariaGarcia-yg2uw
    @MariaGarcia-yg2uw 2 года назад +3

    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

  • @michaelhoerig5920
    @michaelhoerig5920 2 года назад +3

    Great playing, as always, Michael! Greetings from St. Francis in Milwaukee!

  • @tfairfield42
    @tfairfield42 8 месяцев назад

    Quite a beautiful piece, and instrument

  • @wandaradowski2058
    @wandaradowski2058 Год назад +1

    Gorgeous! Thrilling!

  • @jonboz7585
    @jonboz7585 11 месяцев назад +1

    BRAVO!!!

  • @daliacorreia3085
    @daliacorreia3085 Год назад +1

    Excellente!

  • @Barefoot12
    @Barefoot12 9 месяцев назад

    YES THANK YOU!!!

  • @JIMD6370
    @JIMD6370 2 года назад +5

    Beautiful, now go play this on the M-L in Atlantic City please!😊

    • @Barrawitzkaa
      @Barrawitzkaa Год назад +1

      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

    • @JIMD6370
      @JIMD6370 Год назад

      @@Barrawitzkaa very nice, how many pipes?

  • @bernardcromarty485
    @bernardcromarty485 Год назад +2

    Is that a 32 foot Bombarde towards the end?! Nicely played!

  • @clarktrent8952
    @clarktrent8952 Год назад +5

    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?

  • @danielvs7080
    @danielvs7080 10 месяцев назад

    I love this. From #bucharest

  • @johannessilver8653
    @johannessilver8653 Год назад +1

    How can you do it in 3 min video cause it takes some 6 min? Nice sound but the video is not.

  • @ivanwain
    @ivanwain Год назад +3

    Too fast boys, too fast! Listen to Widor's own playing of this piece and learn.

    • @jmariliou
      @jmariliou Год назад +1

      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.

  • @gregbushman319
    @gregbushman319 10 месяцев назад +1

    What a butcher job!

  • @elizabethleister7121
    @elizabethleister7121 11 месяцев назад

    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!!