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Widor Symphonie no. 6, op. 42, no.2: Intermezzo

Roger Sayer plays the third movement of Widor’s Symphonie no. 6 in G minor. Charles Marie Widor was a French organist and composer, whose output includes orchestral, chamber, piano, choral and stage music, but is now best known for his compositions for organ. Of his organ music, his most famous works ‘...are the ten symphonies for solo organ (1872-1900), boldly conceived on a truly orchestral scale for the new “romantic” instrument built by Cavaille-Coll. Here he succeeds admirably in integrating very different musical styles, from the austerely liturgical idiom of Bach, to the more secular models of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt’. Widor’s Organ Symphonies can be grouped into three sets: Op. 13 (numbers 1-4) which exhibit his earlier style, Op. 42 (numbers 5–8) which demonstrate the experience he had accumulated writing his first organ and orchestral symphonies, and the far more pensive Op. 70 and 73 (numbers 9-10), named the Gothique and the Romane. Symphony 6, composed in 1885, and published in 1887, belongs to Op. 42 and is made up of five movements: Allegro, Adagio, Intermezzo – Allegro, Cantabile, Finale – Vivace. The third movement serves as an effervescent scherzo, moments of which test the player’s accuracy as it dances from great to positif and back within less than a beat moving at 126bpm. This movement is in ternary form: the scherzo-like G minor sections surrounding a flowing E flat major section, characterised by long pedal points in both the pedal and the manuals. Please like, share and subscribe, and follow @rogersayerorga1 on Twitter for news, photos and updates!