Widor, Joseph Nolan

Widor
Solo Organ Works
Joseph Nolan o
Signum Classics SIGCD438 (2CD)

After so fearlessly traversing the sublime peaks and troughs of Widor’s ten organ symphonies, it is fitting that Joseph Nolan should seek repose by following up such an arduous journey with a collection of some of the master’s smaller-scale organ works. For this recording, Nolan performs on two fine Cavaillé-Coll instruments, the famous three-manual 1888 organ of St Sernin, Toulouse and the beautiful three-manual organ of St François De Sales in Widor’s birth-place, Lyon. It was on this latter instrument that Widor gave the premiere of the Fifth Symphony.

The six movements of Widor’s Suite Latine, written...