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- Playing the Widor beside Daniel Roth, titular organist at Saint Sulpice, Monday, 17 May 2010. This is the organ for which the piece was composed. Charles-Marie Widor was titular organist at Saint Sulpice 1870-1933. This is the same console he played. The instrument itself is still in its original 1862 condition and maintained as such.
Roth is so generous with his time and shows a interest in these musicians. He is not selfish with the organ. What a giant of a man!
Being the one turning the pages, hearing this work played so well on this most excellent instrument, it was an amazing experience. I've read the comments about the background conversations and I have to say that it was all a matter of education: the discussion revolved around how to use the instrument. As Americans, there are many things fairly foreign to us about Romantic European consoles. With that I say: bravo sir!
Wonderful! Not only is that instrument still a masterpiece, but Daniel Roth is such a gracious host to allow so many people play and enjoy his instrument. He must have heard Widor's Toccata more times than he can count, but he is still as kind and accommodating as ever! Great job with your playing, and kudos again to Daniel Roth for both preserving and sharing this magnificent instrument.
I love the huge pause you took between the penultimate and the final chord. Thank you!
One of the very few who played the ending correctly, Bravo!!
Never saw a happier organist. Well done!
It makes a welcome change to hear this played at the right speed! I really felt your moment of joy at the end!
This is the PROPER way to end the piece!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, and GREAT playing!!
I love how Roth smiles knowingly at the end when the organist takes some liberties and savors the last moments
Who wouldn't to feel this basssssss
These moments are definitely worth savoring !😂
Just listened to this again after a few months. Absolutely magnificent! I love the end of this posting when this talented young organist can hardly bear to take his hands off the keyboard in the final F major chord! And then Daniel's genuine smile of approval - classic. Thanks for posting.
I Cannot put into words how much joy that gave me , to hear my all time favourite piece of organ music, and the wonderful way that was played despite all the discussion, and howl jealous I am of the organist's ability to play so well...it has is literally brought tears of joy to my eyes😊
I like this tempo, and it sounds like it sounds good in the room. And playing that on Widor's organ, with Widor's successor at your right elbow, *and* getting a smile... that is a lot like winning the universe. A little freedom in the ending -- granted, but it's well-earned!
Vielen Dank für die schönsten 6 Minuten des Tages!! Bravo....
And getting an organ lesson and commentary at the same time from Daniel Roth is an experience like nothing else, I'm sure! Great Job!
What a GRAND performance!....this performer rightly should have smiled! it was an exciting rendition and worthy of any organ performer! Congratulations!
Vidor was organist at this church and composed for this organ. What a privilege to have played this piece of music on this organ, taught by Daniel Roth.
Love the way you ended! The sound and Roth's expression are priceless! Bravo!
Oh wow!!!!! Absolutely magnificent. Adore the sound of a pipe organ played well and this piece of music showcases the organ to its full extent right up to the very last note ❤
What an experience! And what talent! Just right tempo and beautifully played. The look on your face with the final chord says it all - heaven on earth. Congratulations!
The look on the organists face at the end was worth it all. I can;t even imagine the joy and pleasure of being honored to play that piece on that organ, Bravo and congratulations!
The ending, hahaha! Amazing!! This guy gave his everything!
Brilliantly done! Thank you.
The best way to listen is without the commentary, but what a thrill to witness from the organ loft itself. BRAVO Maestro! More power to you!
I wish i was gifted enough to play this piece ! Excellent playing !
Hats off to the performer, this piece makes my fingers ache!
Wow...wonderful interpretation, and next to Daniel Roth??? What an incredible honor....must have been an incredible experience!!
I'm still practicing this piece for the recital in May of this year....I managed to Master a few Bach organ pieces, and this piece is my favorite!! I love playing it on our church organ when no one is around. :) BRAVO!! BEAUTIFULLY PLAYED!!!!
I have been there in June 2010. That was great experience.
Yours performance of this piece is - for me - very, very good. I like it!
Excellent, extraordinary instrument and great organist performance
Alex C. Van hell
Beautiful to hear. The pupil knows his master and has performed extremely well. What a tutor. He was able to hold back and allow the younger man have his moment. What a moment for him and I think
LOVE THIS! The sheer enjoyment right at the end is wonderful! I'm amazed that in 1862 a five-manual organ existed.
I think you'll find that the ''wanna- be queen'' is regarded as one of the greatest exponents of the organ. His name is Daniel Roth, and this is currently 'his' organ- and it is only through his generosity that this young man is allowed to play this mighty instrument. It is a wonderful, joyful, shared moment of music- making, and as such is a document to be treasured.
I always come back to this recording. Magical and full of wonder.
One cannot blame the player for holding down the last chord in a moment of musical fulfilment, knowing he has played the piece on the organ upon which it was written.
Mr Roth understood the feelings of the organist as that final chord rolled down the church like a mighty wave.
Excellent video, performance and an experience one will never forget! BRAVO!!
La chaire de poule comme (presque) toujours quand j'entends cette œuvre. Very well performed, and above all, you loooooved it.
AWESOME DISPLAY OF MUSICIANSHIP! The organist dives into one of THE ICONIC works associated with St. Sulpice with DANIEL ROTH sitting to his right having a conversation with another guy sitting on the organist's left....and he doesn't miss a note!!! AWESOME CONCENTRATION BRAVO!
J adore cette pièce c’est un monument, et l organiste vit ce qu il joue.Merci .C était vraiment à couper le souffle❤❤❤
Wow - what a memory to have for the rest of your life.
This is a master class/organ tour, not a professional recording. These are organists having fun with one of the most historic and amazing organs in the world, with a piece written specifically for *this* instrument. Truly a majestic terrifying moment for the organist, and one he will remember forever.
I love this piece and you play it so well I cried! Thank you so much! :)
Well played You. What it must of felt like to have sat were one of the greatest ever Composers sat and at the original Console. Daniel clearly loved your performace as I. Thank you!!! Regards Pete
well. well played.... I found my score and was inspired to study it again! bravo!
Wow, to have Monsieur Roth turn pages for you. What an honour!
Great performance !!
Played in the presence of Master Daniel, in the presence of the organ by Charles Marie. Cool. Bravo! Bravissimo!
(And we see: He is so happy to have finished it....)
So generous of Daniel Roth to give the young people the opportunity to play that instrument, and for them to learn some things from him while they spent time with him.
Stunning performance! Lovely tempo, lovely articulation, lovely registration.
the ending is perfect I love the approval of his teacher seated next to him
I’m here on the day an arsonist set fire to the Saint-Sulpice. The church is still there. The organ was not damaged.
Sad things are happening in France. Notre Dame. Rouen. They need armed guards and shoot the bas*ards.
@@stardust5379 that´s true, armed guards.... Who was it? Do you think they were French who set those churches on fire? We all know, who I´m speaking about, they have mind set that tells them the christianity is bad, so they´ve started to destroy churches...
You mustn´t even be Christian, it´s just historical building with historical organ. No-one can build organs like Cavaillé-Coll did, no-one can build churches nor cathedrals like they did back in the days.... Just for the sake of history!
@@piter_sk Its a tangled world at the moment. Too many possibilities. But the people are being controlled like puppets. We are not in charge of our own destiny. Macron wants Notre Dame to be multi faith. Look what happened to the Hagia Sophia.
@Scotdaz Thank you. It was an experience I'm grateful for and will never forget.
C'est un trés bonne performance, bravo.
Vous avez eu une extraordinaire possibiltè de jouer ce historique organ.
Bravo. It must have been awesome to play the same organ that Widor played his most famous piece on. Brilliant playing. Congratulations
Beautiful piece, one of my favorites!!
Absolutely beautiful totally adore this piece of music ,tremendous
It's like those keys on the Recit are saying "Yeah, we've done this before..."
Ah this sustained note at the end! The first time I´ve heard it was 60 years ago in the cathedral Saint sauveur in Aix en Provence, by an old almost blind(!) man on the organ, I was 6 or 7 years old and I still remember!
The wonder and happiness on all those faces is priceless. It will still be years before I can join their company. "One measure/line at a time!"
Overall, it's a solid performance, but I especially like how it faithfully follows the fermata by clearly separating the grace note and double whole note in the last measure.
I would like to hear this performance in high quality.
This was so exquisite. I could feel it!! Don't know what it is about this music, but it is just incredible. The combination of that and St Sulpice and the sound and Cavaiille Coll just makes this sublime. Perhaps I'm talking rubbish, but your demeaneour at the end of this doesn't suggest so. One of those timeless moments.
Ein Meister schaut einem genialen Schüler über die Schulter - wunder schön!
HONESTLY, you played the best Widor I have EVER heard and believe me I searched. I wanted to smack whoever was speaking because i wanted to download it onto my mp3 player. Your version was that good. I liked you pace etc
Wonderful playing on an amazing instrument!!! Not an easy feat on a tracker...excellent!
Formidable! Being the organist here must be the most amazing job
That was excellent!
I always love where the pedals come in in octaves at 3:32. Just a great spine tingling moment! What a great piece...maybe played almost to the point of exhaustion, but still great. Not easy either....GREAT JOB!
Un sommet pour la musique d orgue.Quand j entends cette œuvre , j en ai des frissons.Un grand bravo au jeune étudiant, et longue carrière à lui.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Amazing. Merci beaucoup!
Only last Sunday I was standing about where the camera was, for one of Daniel Roth's very generous open sessions during the mass at Saint-Sulpice. An incredible organist and a great instrument.
Glorious as always it makes me cry😭
Wonderful playing.
You are right. I would travel a great distance just to shake the hand of Daniel Roth and say, Hello. He is well known to be personable, friendly and generous, as well as being modest about his own stellar abilities.
No matter where the Toccata is played, it always seems to sound its best coming from a Cavaille-Coll.
I have heard from sources in The Netherlands that Daniel Roth is kind and gracious at all times when playing, judging or entertaining at organ festivals and summer schools. He is a genuine gentleman with no inflated display of his own importance. He and Sophie-Veronique are fabulous ambassadors for Parisian organ music.
Thank you very much. 🎼🎶🎵💙😎👌🏻
Well as noted Daniel Roth is an extremely gracious and generous person, but even so you are an extremely lucky person. Nice tempo by the way, you held it all together on probably the greatest organ in the world (I say 'probably' as St Ouen is knocking on the door).
A great experience, thank you.
Good job, young man!
When a young organist is fortunate enough to sit at the feet of a master like Daniel Roth, every word he says is important. This was an incidental recording, not meant to be a finished product. When Metre Roth gives a coaching session he is paid to talk. We can all learn from watching these videos. Especially touching is the wide grin on Roth's face after that masterful interpretation of the Grand Finale of the Toccata. And what about the look on the face and body language of the artist as the last tones echoed through the cathedral?
The look on the artistes face being 9/10ths elation & 1/10th concern.
Concern that he had not pleased Mr Roth or concern that the last chord might destroy the end wall of the church!
Thom Faircloth , here is the link to the same performance recorded in the nave: th-cam.com/video/BMOJPirowAM/w-d-xo.html
☺️ I too love the divinely joyful expression on the organist’s face at the end.
As already commented, this was just 'for fun', an out of hours performance, the chatter was mainly Daniel Roth, the resident Titulaire, giving helpful advice to work around the registrations on this organ (Daniel Roth was helping with some of this via the foot pistons). Remember, this organ was built in 1868, has very few registrational aids, and is virtually in the same condition as left by Cavaille-Coll. We are just casula visitors let in to enjoy the fun, on this Widor's very own instrument.
There must be a moment in history on which the organ will play this piece by itself
Love this what awesome sound i love that organ
Watching this young man's face, I would say that this moment satisfied a dream of his....I very happy for that.
A FINE ORGAN BUILT BY A GREAT ORGAN BUILDER ONE OF THE GREATEST.
Je re écoute souvent J adore cette œuvre monumentale, si bien interpretee❤❤❤
THANK YOU, Daniel!!!
From 4:25-5:05---it's exactly as F Murray Abraham (in the immortal role of Antonio Salieri in "Amadeus") said about Mozart---"This was no ordinary music--it seemed I was hearing the voice of God!" That's how I feel when I hear this magnificent organist play that closing part---the voice of God!!
Quelle délicieuse largesse au finale! Impresionnant le maitre Roth. Interpretation pleine d'énergie et de fougue!
when Christ returns I hope this is what I hear when I look up to the heavens
This is awesome, and its cool that Daniel Roth turned the pages and worked the couplers and such!
I have been a passionate fan of Ethan La Placa's thrilling account on this magnificent instrument. For those of you who would also like to hear what it sounds like from the body of the cathedral itself ( and therefore without the chat at the console) you will see that Mr La Placa has kindly posted another youtube clip of the performance. It is called The Widor Toccata on the Cavaille- Coll organ at Saint Sulpice, Paris. Enjoy!
The beautiful music. 🎶🎼🎵💙🎶🎼🎵
WOW!!!!!!!! one day i hope to travel to europe to play the great organs
Great Job!!
Considering the "very rude" man talking is Daniel Roth I'm perfectly ok with it (see above) -- but I think you missed the whole point of the video. It's not about the professional recording quality -- it's about the absolute orgasmic thrill of being able to play the Widor (great job..btw) on the exact same organ that Widor played and wrote the piece for -- an organists dream! Well done and thanks for sharing!
Bro, don't listen to these people. Play Widor however you like. It's not music for music's sake - music is to be used to minister to the soul. And by the looks of your smile afterwards, your soul seemed to be ministered to! That's what matters. Congrats on a wonderful performance!
I think the only person who (in my opinion) plays the last system correctly!!!!!!!
wow - what a trip that must have been! Fingers hurt much after playing all that coupled together :-) And just imagine running the Ventil pedals, etc on your own - must be murder! Very nice job (and milk that last chord!! lol)
If anyone denies that the organ is the KING of instruments, they are listening to too much violin. Magnificent!!
The classic argument of tempo for this piece. Widor played it about 1/2 slower than most people play it today.
+Burt Ward the right tempo, indeed.
Hear Diane Bish! Atrocious speed! We used to think Simon Preston was fast but she beats the bullet every time!
Burt Ward People had more time then and no Smartphones.
tempo by widor was 108 then 100 and he end it with 98 ...so it doesnt matter... his student Vierne said, it doesnt matter how fast you play it.. but all notes must be listenable.
I can’t continue watching, the shaking and shuttering of the camera is making me motion sick. That said, you are AMAZING!!! It would be an absolute pleasure to see/hear you live! What a performance indeed. BRAVO!