The French composer Charles-Marie Widor wrote a total of ten organ symphonies – but sadly, it is only the Toccata from No.5 that retains any kind of popular appeal today. It’s quite some popular ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Charles-Marie Widor. In his lifetime, Widor was fated throughout Europe as a performer, teacher, and composer of ballets, opera, concertos and organ ...

As a postscript to his recordings of the complete symphonies, Joseph Nolan has mopped up the last crumbs of Widor’s solo organ output for these two discs. He actually goes further. In addition to the ...

Too often it is buried away in organ anthologies that treat it as a mere showpiece, which of course it's not -- the toccata forms the last movement of his Organ Symphony No 5 in F minor. When played ...

This month sees the 175th birthday of composer and organist Charles-Marie Widor, born on Feb. 21, 1844, in Lyon, France. Widor’s profession was, seemingly, predestined: his father was an organ builder ...

Widor's Toccata display of fireworks at the organ is a favourite for married couples to exit the church by in the UK. From March 2006. Show more Ever since Widor's Toccata was included in two Royal ...

The School of Music at Southern Adventist University invites the community to a Symphony Orchestra Concert conducted by Laurie Redmer Cadwallader on Sunday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Collegedale Church ...

NATHAN LAUBE, ORGANIST Sunday Independent Presbyterian Church November Organ Recital Series Series concludes Nov. 23 with Lynne Davis Nathan Laube, a 19-year-old organist with the musical instincts of ...

Tonight sees the inaugural concert for Glasgow Royal Concert Hall’s new digital state of the art organ. The £155,000 Copeman Hart digital organ will make its debut this evening, Wednesday at a concert ...

A family engagement in the run-up to the festive season started me thinking about the kind of music you hear at a wedding. The contemporaries Handel and Bach are favourites, and then there are the ...

The French composer Charles-Marie Widor wrote a total of ten organ symphonies – but sadly, it is only the Toccata from No.5 that retains any kind of popular appeal today. It’s quite some popular ...