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

Roger Sayer plays the fourth 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 fourth movement (Cantabile in D flat major) is tonally and structurally remote from the other movements, with a quartet-like texture and balanced part-writing in binary form. The theme is first stated over simple quavers in the left hand and a pizzicato pedal line. A series of ascending scales introduce a triplet rhythm, and the theme is played again over an intricate triplet accompaniment, and closes with a short coda over a pedal point. Please like, share and subscribe, and follow @rogersayerorga1 on Twitter for news, photos and updates!