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

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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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  • @cdf6333
    @cdf6333 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @michaelpfaff6009
    @michaelpfaff60092 ай бұрын

    One of my favorite organists!

  • @jgesselberty
    @jgesselberty Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @lindaatzenhoefer8536
    @lindaatzenhoefer85366 ай бұрын

    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

  • @jdkoozer
    @jdkoozer Жыл бұрын

    Perfect Register of the Organ

  • @jgesselberty
    @jgesselberty Жыл бұрын

    Love the nice robust pedal in this.

  • @davef.2811
    @davef.2811 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @mccxcccx7793

    @mccxcccx7793

    Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @markfortuin7111
    @markfortuin71118 ай бұрын

    And played by the best organist! What a treat.

  • @Michael_VG
    @Michael_VG Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Bildungsrebell
    @Bildungsrebell Жыл бұрын

    What a nice, colorful version. Thanks from Germany!

  • @MariaGarcia-yg2uw
    @MariaGarcia-yg2uw Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @jonboz7585
    @jonboz75857 ай бұрын

    BRAVO!!!

  • @michaelhoerig5920
    @michaelhoerig5920 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @bernardcromarty485
    @bernardcromarty485 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @daliacorreia3085
    @daliacorreia308510 ай бұрын

    Excellente!

  • @wandaradowski2058
    @wandaradowski2058 Жыл бұрын

    Gorgeous! Thrilling!

  • @tfairfield42
    @tfairfield424 ай бұрын

    Quite a beautiful piece, and instrument

  • @JIMD6370
    @JIMD6370 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Barrawitzkaa

    @Barrawitzkaa

    Жыл бұрын

    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 kzread.info/dash/bejne/eIWslqmMkrq8iaw.html

  • @JIMD6370

    @JIMD6370

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Barrawitzkaa very nice, how many pipes?

  • @Barefoot12
    @Barefoot125 ай бұрын

    YES THANK YOU!!!

  • @clarktrent8952
    @clarktrent8952 Жыл бұрын

    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
    @danielvs70806 ай бұрын

    I love this. From #bucharest

  • @johannessilver8653
    @johannessilver86538 ай бұрын

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

  • @ivanwain
    @ivanwain Жыл бұрын

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

  • @jmariliou

    @jmariliou

    11 ай бұрын

    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
    @gregbushman3196 ай бұрын

    What a butcher job!

  • @elizabethleister7121
    @elizabethleister71217 ай бұрын

    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!!

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