Daniel Roth - Most beautiful improvisation (St Sulpice)

[Flûtes? The are everywhere!]
Perhaps Daniel Roth's most beautiful improvisation.
Recorded June 2000
Eglise S. Sulpice, Paris

[@user-zz8ds8or3k]

Many a musician would wish he could compose something even remotely similar to what Daniel seems to be just shaking out of his sleeves while improvising ... No wonder he was appointed Organiste Titulaire of one of the greatest and grandest organs ever built !!

[@peteragoston-petrosthemusi8260]

Nope. This is not a composition. I used to 'make' improvised pieces - composition has forms pieces sometimes interact with each other. Meanwhile impro is a free chain of inspired 'hints' oe gags. Another question if I can impro being surrended by spectators..

[@arjanvisser6658]

I have seen this improvisation many times. And it remains a very remarkable piece of creativity, vitality and musical totality.

[@cliveso]

I'm very fond of this improvisation. Very very dreamy.

[@zamarioijean4736]

Géniale improvisation, comme toujours, animée par une imagination débordante !

[@LuisGonzalez-pw6jy]

Incroyable! Merci M. Roth!

[@buxthierry5518]

❤Grand regret de voir Daniel Roth jeune retraité de S❤t Sulpice

[@anthonyvallillo422]

One of the questions below was in regards to the woman on the bench next to M. Roth. I was the one who recorded this video back in 2000, and the entire entourage surrounding M. Roth was a group of organ students and their teacher from the USA. Definitely not Marie Claire Alain.

[@Theodopolis]

Dear Anthony, thank you for prompting one of the most astonishing improvisations of all time! I’ve always wanted to know about the ‘famous intonation’ Daniel mentions to you at 7:06. It’s so colourful.

[@usshackman]

Fabulous!

[@zamarioijean4736]

Talentueux organiste improvisateur, compositeur, interprète, très à l'aise à Saint-Sulpice, comme il l'était au Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre où j'avais fait sa connaissance ... Merci pour cette merveilleuse improvisation !

[@abiesconcolor54]

🙌 bravo

[@kempedkemp]

Thank you so much for sharing this! So what if it causes heart palpitations and loss of bladder control?

[@pbbp3090]

la vidéo date de juin 2000!

[@user-lq1sj3oi5w]

This is nice, as "modern music," however, the great composers employed a system of theme-and-variations for a reason... (from Canada)

[@HoldenMICproductions174]

Is the Woman sitting on the left of the bench Mrs Marie Claire Alain?

[@brucewilliams8714]

You could well be right. Roth was one of her students.

[@JoshuaSobel]

Sure looks like it!

[@raymondmoderski3216]

No, Marie Claire died a few years ago.

[@JoshuaSobel]

@@raymondmoderski3216 this video was a few years ago.

[@raymondmoderski3216]

@@JoshuaSobel Sorry, but it does not look like Marie Claire.

[@katharinetaylor6988]

I know im the only one to be courageous enough to say this, but i didn’t like this at all, for several reasons. Peirre Cocherau is the absolute best along with Messiaen and Latry