Charles-Marie Widor: Piano Works

Charles-Marie Widor Variations sur un Thème original Op. 29 1. Andantino 2. Var. 1 L’istesso tempo 3. Var. 2 Legato assai e sostenuto 4. Var. 3 Vivace 5. Var. 4 Adagio 6. Vivace 7. Tempo I – Vivace Carnaval Op. 61 (original version)  8. 1. Timbales et Trompettes 9. 2. Flirt 1o. 3. Bal masqué 11. 4. Rosita 12. 5. Entrée Turque 13. 6. Zanetto 14. 7. Viennoise 15. 8. Entrée polonaise 16. 9. Hongroise 17. 10. Bohémienne 18. 11. Francesca 19. 12. Finale Cinq pièces Op. 71  20. Valse gaie. Allegro vivace 21. Valse triste. Moderato 22. Kermesse carillonnante.Tempo giusto 23. Valse oubliée. Andante 24. Aprés la Fête. Andante (earlier version) From Conte d’Avril Op. 64 25. Nocturne. Andantino From Organ Symphony No. 5 Op. 42 26. Toccata. Allegro (arr. Widor) Charles-Marie Widor © The son of an organ builder—in his old age, when asked about his choice of profession he answered with characteristic wit, “My vocation? It’s quite simple. I was born in an organ pipe.”—Widor was first taught by his father, and aged 11 became organist at the secondary school of his native Lyon. He subsequently studied organ at the Brussels Conservatoire with the patrician Jacques Lemmens and composition with Françios-Joseph Fétis; as a theorist, hugely respected in his lifetime; as an historian, controversial in our own time. Aged 24 he became assistant to Saint-Saëns at the Église de la Madeleine. In 1870 Widor was appointed to the very prestigious role of organist at Saint Sulpice, Paris, where he would remain for 63 years as the longest serving organist in that church’s history. He succeeded César Franck as organ professor at the Paris Conservatoire where he would later become professor of composition. He died at the age of 93 after a long and very well-lived life and is interred in the crypt of Saint-Sulpice. RELEASE DATE: MARCH 2026 CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 1008 EAN: 5709499100806 Download BOOKLET (PDF)   Related