Widor's Toccata - or - Widor's 5th Symphony in F - Movement V - Toccata

Fabulous rendition of the ending! Brilliant playing from M Latry.

Cumming and crying

THE MOST DIVINE PIECE OF MUSIC !! When I come to my end, please, please let me hear this….

Too fast. Unmusical. Loses all the drama with this breakneck tempo.

This is God inspired, it must be. One of the most beautiful pieces of music ive ever heard. Its sounds like its from another world.

If I was listening to this live I'd be on my knees 😮

Parfait

Every time I listen to this superb composition I feel joy in heart and soul.

I wish other organ music sounded this good, the closest I can find with this type of energy is Interstellar's Soundtrack.

Splendide toccata

There is no other church organ in the world that is able to match the sound and power of the one in Notre-Dame de Paris. The organ even made the Toccata sound bass boosted towards the end of the piece.

ever notice that organists don't need sheet music for this? lol it's still a fun piece

Muffled

How gloriously French! Etonnant! Best wishes for the restoration ♥️ 🇨🇵

Oliver you played absolutely fabulously.
Thank you 💖

I had this at my Wedding August 1976 it's just incredible I first heard it at Princess Alexandra's in 1963 when I was ten and I made the decision that Day I was having it!!
During the Signing of the Register I chose Handel's Organ Concerto B-Flat Major Op 4 No 6.
Wonderful least I thought it was!

Powerful

Gorgeous Now and Forever!!!❤❤❤

Sur l'orgue de Notre Dame le morceau prend des allures vraiment grandioses

I was visiting the Cathedral on a Saturday afternoon in 1978 and out of the blue, the organist decided to play this as a practice piece - it had always been a special piece of music for me and on this day, I was transported and felt it was meant to be

Absolutnie niesamowite, wykonanie mega sztos.

This this this piece! Gives me chills. I just got an organ and it is my every day practice. Recording it for my funeral -my husband better carry me out of the church to it!!!!!! I might come back and take him with me if he does not honor my wishes!!!! Lol.

Excellent

Outstanding performance. The sound quality was soooo good. Thank you!

Un moment intense , que du bonheur .

Di una sconfinata bellezza... le ance francesi hanno un tocco unico e inimitabile👍👍👍👍👍

Olivier Latry never disappoints!

Sensationnel je voudrais pue on joue ça à mon enterrement

Wild and beautiful!!❤

It took me ages to find out what this piece of music was called, I've always loved it. Now I can listen to it all the time.😊

The only time we get to hear this part of the piece is when the royal family use it as a recessional at royal events that capture the huge sound.

Mighty and Wonderful Music
❤❤❤

This, in my opinion, is one of the greatest organ performances ever uploaded to this website. I've been listening to it for years. I'm not sure if it's Latry's playing, the organ, the acoustics of the building, the microphone setup, or a combination of all of the above, but nothing else comes close. It's so unbelievably clear, I swear I can hear every single pipe. Incredible.

This is my favorite performance of this piece; the best pace, the best arrangement. E Power Biggs is good. Some play it too slow, Dianne Bish played it like it was a race. I imagine this instrument was lost in the fire.Thanks for sharing.

Hands down my favourite rendition of this piece for many years.

Very good.

Insane!
The sound production is overwhelming!!
Thankyou Oliver!!!!I

Majestic and great sound ! In Rouen Ouen Kalevi Kiviniemi plays this too...I would say even more grand there. That organ really thunders.

Classic sortie de messe à Port Marly

Good on you for making the most of the pedal stops. Widor’s Tocatta without the pedal stops being let rip really ruins it for me!!

This song was played as my class proceeded out of the auditorium after our high school graduation. From the stage, the back doors were thrown open and you could see the trees and the garden through the auditorium, through the hallway outside, from the stage. I was one of the last people to exit and between hearing this music and seeing that little square of green get bigger and bigger as I walked towards what felt like the entire green earth through that square, I almost cried. It gave me chills. So triumphant and at turns agonized, or maybe that's just how I felt.

I love this organ (Cavaillé Coll famous manufacturer) and I love Notre-Dame and Paris where I was born. Did you know that this fantastic organ is old and modern at the same time because It is computurized since 1986. It can even play alone ! And every session can be recorded. Like that the organist can listen it' s own work and improve it.
Now I am waiting the renaissance of our favorite cathedral as every Parisians and the concerts coming with it and the masses too.

This is much too fast a tempo. Technically impressive, but at the expense of the solemnity of the piece. Enjoyable nonetheless.

Pour une fois que j'aime une interprétation d'O. Latry, l'enregistrement manque de "coffre". Ca a été pris avec des micros cardioïdes ? Ce ne sont pas des micros pour l'orgue : leur bande passante s'écroule en dessous de 100 Hz. Ou alors associés à des omnis.

Só fast....

This works the same as morning caffeine. If you stand in a cathedral or synagogue and hear the full aid of it being played in person, you know what full sound feels like in your body. It's medicine AND art, and gives your brain a neurological supercharge.