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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Part of the BBC Proms. Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna makes her Proms debut with a programme of French 19th- and 20th-century music. Widor’s thrilling Organ Symphony No. 5, with its famous ...

To quote the French organist and composer Charles-Marie Widor, "To play the organ properly, one should have a vision of eternity." Widor died in 1937, so he was spared the transformation of the pipe ...

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 ...

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 ...

The long-lived Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) is one of those composers whose music is well known to people who don't even know his name, such is the popularity of the Toccata from his Fifth Organ ...

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 ...