Widor: Organ Symphony No. 5. Andrew Mellor recommends recordings of Charles-Marie Widor's Organ Symphony No. 5. 51 mins; Record Review Podcast. Dvorak: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op 81.

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 ...

Widor: Toccata from Organ Symphony No. 5 (extr.) With Thomas Trotter at the organ of Saint-François-de-Sales, Lyon, France. Release date: 27 March 2010. Duration: 56 seconds ...

Take the Toccata from the Fifth Symphony, which Trotter carries off brilliantly, although this particular Cavaille-Coll has no 32-foot reeds. How ingenious to tap the lower note underneath the big ...

WIDOR Symphony No 1. Violin Concerto. La Nuit de Walpurgis. Widor’s ubiquitous Toccata from Symphony No 5, in spite of being his defining work, is by no means representative of... Reviewed by Jeremy ...

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 ...

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 ...