Definitely on the brisk side, but quite enjoyable. Love the echo effect at the end!! Different stop or enclosed tuba?

Electrifying!

This Toccata was virtually unknown for many years but it's now becoming popular amongst listeners and organists who have heard it. It's a shame Lanquetuit did not write more for the organ.

This piece really restores my sanity.

I, first. heard it in the mid 1950s played by Ted Marier of Saint Paul's Choir School when he played it on the 3 manual Casavant Freres organ at Saint Mary's in Cambridge. It was a year when we had recitals by George Faxon, Max Miller, Dowell McNeil, Honora Klarmann, and Berj Zamkocian. We were fortunate to have a Pastor [Rt. Rev E. Joseph Burke] a graduate of the Boston Conservatory. The Choir was the premiere choir of the Archdiocese of Boston under the direction of Thomas N. Bunting!

This seems to be the correct tempo. Great reverberation!

Excellent - at last someone is playing this at the correct speed - and doesn't it sound *so* much better for it? Fantastic acoustics too.

Widor was pleased with the worldwide renown this single piece afforded him, but he was unhappy with how fast many other organists played it. Widor himself always played the Toccata rather deliberately. Many organists play it at a very fast tempo whereas Widor preferred a more controlled articulation to be involved. He recorded the piece, at St. Sulpice in his eighty-ninth year; the tempo used for the Toccata is quite slow.

'Don't know what Gresick's tempo preference would be, but he wisely did not drown himself in those acoustics. THis tempo suits me just fine.

Perfect in tempo/speed and registration.