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

[@user-gr7yz7cr6l]

I can never get enough of this organ piece! I can listen to it all day long.

[@cdf6333]

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.

[@lindaatzenhoefer8536]

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

[@jgesselberty]

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.

[@youtubesketches110]

Carpet killed the organ in many of those churches.

[@michaelpfaff6009]

One of my favorite organists!

[@markfortuin7111]

And played by the best organist! What a treat.

[@jgesselberty]

Love the nice robust pedal in this.

[@jdkoozer]

Perfect Register of the Organ

[@davef.2811]

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

[@mccxcccx7793]

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!

[@Bildungsrebell]

What a nice, colorful version. Thanks from Germany!

[@tfairfield42]

Quite a beautiful piece, and instrument

[@wandaradowski2058]

Gorgeous! Thrilling!

[@Michael_VG]

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

[@jonboz7585]

BRAVO!!!

[@michaelhoerig5920]

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

[@MariaGarcia-yg2uw]

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

[@daliacorreia3085]

Excellente!

[@Barefoot12]

YES THANK YOU!!!

[@JIMD6370]

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

[@Barrawitzkaa]

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 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fILbZXqJl7yJj6s

[@JIMD6370]

@@Barrawitzkaa very nice, how many pipes?

[@bernardcromarty485]

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

[@danielvs7080]

I love this. From #bucharest

[@johannessilver8653]

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

[@clarktrent8952]

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?

[@ivanwain]

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

[@jmariliou]

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.

[@richardgrant7055]

Too fast, and messy.

[@gregbushman319]

What a butcher job!

[@elizabethleister7121]

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!!