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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...