"WIDOR TOCCATA": my favorite organ piece: listen to it: what's you!


Question: The famous Widor Toccata. Listen to the below listed You Tube rendintion by a French organist on a very impressive French organ.

Widor Toccata


Answers: The famous Widor Toccata. Listen to the below listed You Tube rendintion by a French organist on a very impressive French organ.

Widor Toccata

just go to the web site and copy the Address Line from your browser and past it here. Works for me every time!

Bear in mind that I am an organist with a bias towards early music, so here is a list of some of my favorites:

Alain:
Litanies

Bach:
Prelude and Fugue in D major
Prelude and Fugue in B minor
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
and too many others to mention!

Buxtehude:
Praeludium in D minor

Howells:
Master Tallis's Testament
Sarabande for the Morning of Easter

Messiaen:
Apparition de l'Eglise Eternelle

Tunder:
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (chorale setting)

Weckmann:
Praeambulum Primi Toni a 5

There is a vast repertoire of exciting organ music out there beyond the Widor Toccata and the overworked Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor (which some scholars now believe to be a transcription of a solo violin piece that was originally in A minor). Muffat's Toccatas in his Apparatus Musico-Organisticus contain some amazing music; Scheidemann was yet another North German composer who wrote high quality music; then there is Mendelssohn (the dreaded transcription of the Wedding March aside), Franck and, coming back into his own, Saint-Saens.

Enough suggestions to get you started, I hope!

This is a trite answer, but I have to say it. Bach's Little Fugue in G minor. The Melody is just so good. Bach's Fugues are seriously unrivaled as the greatest music accomplishment. Widor Tocatta is a great piece though. Hard to believe he taught Milhaud, their music is radically different.



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