Widor: Organ Symphonies Nos. 1-4
Christian Schmitt (Cavaillé-Orgel der Abteikirche St. Ouen, Rouen)
a lot of love and care has gone into this CD...making it a welcome addition to the catalogue
Widor: Organ Symphonies Nos. 1-4
Christian Schmitt (Cavaillé-Orgel der Abteikirche St. Ouen, Rouen)
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a lot of love and care has gone into this CD...making it a welcome addition to the catalogue
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Charles-Marie Widor is a name is synonymous with French organ music of the nineteenth century.. Christian Schmitt, certainly the most distinguished German organist of the younger generation, is again the interpreter of our first, freshly recorded organ symphonies solo opus. His recording of the Organ Symphonies opp. 42, 3, and 69 was awarded an ECHO Klassik prize in 2013. He performs the Symphonies op. 13 on the Saint-Ouen Abbey Church organ built by Cavaillé-Coll.
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May 2015
a lot of love and care has gone into this CD...making it a welcome addition to the catalogue
May 2015
St Ouen's organ was described by Widor in 1890 as 'an organ for Michelangelo' and it's the perfect instrument on which to hear his music, if, that is, you don't mind missing too much detail in the fast/loud passages.
