To quote the French organist and composer Charles-Marie Widor, "To play the organ properly, one should have a vision of eternity." Widor died in 1937, so he was spared the transformation of the pipe ...

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 ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Charles-Marie Widor. In his lifetime, Widor was fated throughout Europe as a performer, teacher, and composer of ballets, opera, concertos and organ ...

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 ...

Widor's Toccata display of fireworks at the organ is a favourite for married couples to exit the church by in the UK. From March 2006. Show more Ever since Widor's Toccata was included in two Royal ...

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 played ...

Tonight sees the inaugural concert for Glasgow Royal Concert Hall’s new digital state of the art organ. The £155,000 Copeman Hart digital organ will make its debut this evening, Wednesday at a concert ...

In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn ...

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 ...

In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn ...