Devour Music

About the organ: Dariia Lytvishko gave a masterful performance of Vidor’s “The Fifth Movement (Finale).” The organ is an Ouverture 355 with Physis Plus sound generation. Audio signals are routed from the organ to AD300.4 amplifiers via a Dante card and ultimately reach VP-310 passive speakers and a pair of VA-Sub15 subwoofers. More info: Ouverture 355: https://bit.ly/4c5Ah3q Dante Card: https://bit.ly/3NIAVf7 Dante Amplifier AD300.4: https://bit.ly/3NKVFmq VP-310 passive speaker: https://bit.ly/3PFcv6O VA-Sub15 subwoofer: https://bit.ly/418dsqG About the composition: Charles-Marie Widor Symphonie VI pour orgue op. 42, No. 2, Finale V Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937) was a central figure in the French organ tradition. For over sixty years he served as titular organist at the church of Saint-Sulpice and taught organ at the Paris Conservatory, influencing generations of musicians. His organ works are closely linked to the development of organ building by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, and he famously said of the Saint-Sulpice organ: “If I had not experienced the seduction of these timbres or the mystical attraction of this wave of sound, I would never have written organ music.” The core of his organ output lies in the ten organ symphonies. The Sixth was first performed in 1878 at the Paris World Exhibition at the Palais du Trocadéro and published the following year together with the Symphony No. 5. The fifth movement (Finale) is the brilliant and virtuosic conclusion of the symphony. In sonata-rondo form, it is built on two main ideas: the first based on energetic chords, the second one on a succession of descending diminished fourths. The thematic development is mainly based on the latter, leading to the recapitulation and a tumultuous coda. Widor’s registration for the fortissimo calls for all manuals coupled and the pedal coupled to the manuals, with reeds at 16’, 8’, and 4’ (and 32’ in the pedal), implicitly including the corresponding foundation stops. The resulting sonority is dominated by reed stops. The use of multiple manuals and the thick swell box typical of Cavaillé-Coll instruments nevertheless allows for a wide dynamic range, from fortissimo to pianissimo, even without substantial changes in registration. ------------------------------------------------------ Follow Viscount Instruments: https://www.viscountinstruments.com/ https://www.instagram.com/viscount_official/ https://www.facebook.com/ViscountMusic https://soundcloud.com/viscountinstrument