Every year the downtown Presbyterian Church in Tulsa (where I served for 32 years) ends the Easter service with Charles-Marie ...

A family engagement in the run-up to the festive season started me thinking about the kind of music you hear at a wedding. The contemporaries Handel and Bach are favourites, and then there are the ...

This month sees the 175th birthday of composer and organist Charles-Marie Widor, born on Feb. 21, 1844, in Lyon, France. Widor’s profession was, seemingly, predestined: his father was an organ builder ...

Charles-Marie WidorFlutist James Galway plays the Suite for Flute and Piano, op. 34, no. 1 by Charles-Marie Widor, from 1898. Galway is in concert in Forth Worth, with pianist Philip Moll. He goes on ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Charles-Marie Widor. In his lifetime, Widor was fated throughout Europe as a performer, teacher, and composer of ballets, opera, concertos and organ ...

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Concerto for Cello Charles-Marie(-Jean-Albert) Widor, Composer Torleif Thedéen, Cello Martin Yates, Conductor Royal Scottish National Orchestra Symphony No. 2 Charles-Marie(-Jean-Albert) Widor, ...

It would perhaps be unfair to call French composer Charles Widor a one-hit wonder, but outside the organ fraternity he is known not so much for one work as one movement: the Toccata of the Fifth Organ ...