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Title Widor : master of the organ symphony = Maître de la symphonie pour orgue = Meister der Orgelsymphonie / direction, Will Fraser.

Publication Info. [England] : Fugue State Films, [2015]
℗2015

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 Talbott Media  DVD 922    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Talbott Media  DVD 922  Booklet    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Edition 4 disc pack.
Description 2 videodiscs (297 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (84 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 18 cm)
2 audio discs (141 min. : digital, audio) ; 4 3/4 in.
Medium of Performance organ 1 1
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
surround
Dolby
NTSC
video file
DVD video
Note Title from container.
Contents DVD 1. Part 1. Introduction ; Widor's unlikely predecessor ; Widor's youth and education ; An itinerant organist ; Provisional organist of Saint-Sulpice. Part 2. Symphonies 5 and 6 ; Beyond the Toccata ; Symphonies 7 and 8 ; Professor of organ. Part 3. The influence of plainchant ; Professor of composition ; A new career ; Marriage ; A beautiful life -- DVD 2. Symphonie no. 5, Opus 42/1 ; Symphonie No. 6, Opus 42/2 ; Symphonie No. 3, Opus 13/3. Marcia ; Symphonie No. 3, Opus 13/3. Prélude ; Symphonie No. 2, Opus 13/2. Adagio ; Symphonie No. 1, Opus 13/1. Méditation ; Symphonie No. 7, Opus 42/3. Finale, Choral ; Symphonie No. 4, Opus 13/4. Scherzo ; Symphonie No. 3, Opus 13/3. Final ; Symphonie Gothique, Opus 70. Andante sostenuto.
CD 1. Symphonie No. 6, Opus 42/2 ; Symphonie No. 1, Opus 13/1. Méditation ; Symphonie No. 3, Opus 13/3. Prélude ; Symphonie No. 2, Opus 13/2. Adagio ; Symphonie No. 3, Opus 13/3. Final -- CD 2. Symphonie no. 5, Opus 42/1 ; Symphonie Gothique, Opus 70. Andante sostenuto ; Symphonie No. 7, Opus 42/3. Choral, Finale.
Credits Produced in associaton with the Organ Historical Society ; associate producer, Peter Bassett ; narrator, Eric Lebrun ; camera, Simon Still ; sound, David Hinitt.
Performer Organists: Gerard Brooks, Daniel Roth, Carolyn Shuster-Fournier.
Note Accompanying booklet in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish inserted in container.
Summary This set of 2 DVDs, 2 CDs, and an 84-page booklet develops a complete portrait of Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937), the most famous composer of organ music since Bach. Widor composed ten revolutionary organ symphonies that established the organ as a rival of the orchestra and pioneered the use of symphonic forms for the instrument. On one DVD, a magnificent three-part documentary shows how Widor came to write his organ symphonies, how his compositional style developed and matured, and how these works fit into his career as a performer, teacher and writer. Presented by Gerard Brooks and Widor scholars Daniel Roth, John Near and Anne-Isabelle de Parcevaux, the documentary sets Widor's organ music in the context of his work as a mainstream composer of operas, ballets, chamber music and orchestral symphonies. Widor's life was intertwined with that of the great French organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. Therefore, Widor's greatest organ works are recorded in surround-sound on the three best surviving Cavaillé-Coll instruments, Saint-Sulpice in Paris, where Widor himself was organist for almost sixty years, Orléans Cathedral and Saint-Ouen in Rouen. Widor's fifth and sixth symphonies are included in their entirety on both CD and DVD, performed by Gerard Brooks. Daniel Roth, the current organist at Saint-Sulpice, performs a range of movements from the other symphonies. Other Cavaillé-Coll organs are also seen and heard.
System Details DVD; NTSC; Region Free; 16:9 widescreen; Dolby Digital & DTS Digital Surround.
Subject Widor, Charles-Marie, 1844-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Widor, Charles-Marie, 1844-1937.
Criticism and interpretation.
Organists -- France -- Biography.
Organists.
France.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Organ music.
Organ music.
Genre/Form Organ music.
Subject Organ (Musical instrument) -- Performance.
Organ (Musical instrument) -- Performance.
Organ (Musical instrument)
Symphonies (Organ)
Symphonies (Organ)
Symphonies (Organ) -- Excerpts.
Symphonies (Organ) -- Excerpts.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Symphonies.
Symphonies.
Excerpts.
Excerpts.
Biographical films.
Biographical films.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
Biographies.
Added Author Widor, Charles-Marie, 1844-1937, composer.
Fraser, Will (Director), film director.
Bassett, Peter (Documentary television producer), film producer.
Brooks, Gerard, performer, presenter, writer of added commentary.
Roth, Daniel, 1942- performer, presenter.
Shuster-Fournier, Carolyn, performer.
Near, John Richard, presenter, writer of added commentary.
Parcevaux, Anne-Isabelle de, presenter.
Container of (work): Widor, Charles-Marie, 1844-1937. Symphonies, organ, no. 1, op. 13, no. 1, C minor. Selections.
Container of (work): Widor, Charles-Marie, 1844-1937. Symphonies, organ, no. 2, op. 13, no. 2, D major. Selections.
Container of (work): Widor, Charles-Marie, 1844-1937. Symphonies, organ, no. 3, op. 13, no. 3, E minor. Selections.
Container of (work): Widor, Charles-Marie, 1844-1937. Symphonies, organ, no. 4, op. 13, no. 4, F minor. Selections.
Container of (work): Widor, Charles-Marie, 1844-1937. Symphonies, organ, no. 5, op. 42, no. 1, F minor.
Container of (work): Widor, Charles-Marie, 1844-1937. Symphonies, organ, no. 6, op. 42, no. 2, G minor.
Container of (work): Widor, Charles-Marie, 1844-1937. Symphonies, organ, no. 7, op. 42, no. 3, A minor. Selections.
Container of (work): Widor, Charles-Marie, 1844-1937. Symphonies, organ, no. 9, op. 70, C minor. Selections.
Organ Historical Society, production company.
Fugue State Films, film distributor.
Added Title Widor : Maître de la symphonie pour orgue
Widor : Meister der Orgelsymphonie
Standard No. 0721762375426
Music No. FSFDVD010 Fugue State Films