Eugène Gigout - TOCCATA in B MINOR

Eugène Gigout's TOCCATA is by far the most well-known work by the composer and is regarded as one of the great French symphonic organ fanfares. In this video I play the movement on my Hauptwerk home organ on the magnificent sample set of Caen - St. Etienne sample by Sonus Paradisi.
The Toccata is composed in 1890 in can be found as the last piece in the collection "10 pièces pour orgue".

Gigout loved the Saint-Augustin Church in Paris. In fact he stayed there for 62 years as an organist. He was a pupil of the great Camille Saint-Säens and later came to be a great pedagogue who founded his own organ school.

Gigout lived a long life and died in Paris 81 years of age. He left us a great collection of popular organ pieces, the Toccata being the crown jewel of them all.
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[magnusleite]

Perfect tempo! Many play this to fast, in my opinion.

[olivierfritzfeller]

Comme habituellement, vous savez rendre si bien l'âme d'une pièce. Une des plus belles interprétation de la Toccata de Gigout. Merci. Cordialement Olivier

[ramonestana]

Hi Philip, thank you very very much for this genius piece of music! It is always a great pleasure to listen to your play. All the best, Ramon❤

[ferryorganmusic]

This Toccata is so friendly and joyful. Thanks for sharing this piece with us, Philip.

[lindafinch]

Good morning Philip, what a great way to enjoy my coffee break and collect another fine piece of music! Beautifully played as ever. Thank you so much Lynn

[clivesawers]

I sometimes enjoy this at speed; but this evening I much prefer the more relaxed tempo. Excellent, very well done!

[billraty]

Well done. Your unruffled masterful dexterity playing the arpeggios is in sharp contrast to what the music is doing!

[Railfan]

That’s a great piece of music! Thank you for sharing.

[socialite]

Just a fraction sedate for my taste, but flawlessly played. Nice. Thanks for putting this up on Youtube.

[lenaNkQ]

Fantastic organ piece that gives a lot of energy on a rainy fridag morning.Thanks for the beautiful music Philip So wonderfully played🎶🎶🎶

[mariebourhis]

La merveilleuse Toccata de E Gigout !!!! Superbe interprétation.
Très beau moment musical 👏👏👏🎶💫🌺🎶💫🌺🎶💫🌺💛💛💛

[stephenarendse]

This is the ONE piece where I wish the organ has low B :-) Well played sir!

[mariaemilia]

Good Evening Philip Aggesen ! Thanks for the great Organ Music ! 🌹🎼❤️🙏😘✨👍

[charlottegrieff]

BRAVO Philip. One of my all time favourites and so beautifully performed by my all time favourite organist. 💖💖

[johnweddel]

One of my favorite organ pieces. Your perfromance and tempo are spot on! Nicely done.... thank you for sharinig your talent with us!

[paulhoffman-music]

Exquisite performance. So well controlled. The melody clearly defined. I can learn from this. Bravo!

[jonboz]

A favorite piece of mine and you played it beautifully! Thank you.

[beyersorganloft]

This is a fine performance. I have been enjoying your recordings for several months. I look forward to future recordings from your channel.

[janterjeedmundsson]

Storslået og flot! Og hvor er du bare en enestående god organist!

[josephbrandtner]

Bravo! Beautifully done. You should know, that when the organ got to FFF the audio was clipping. Additionally with intermodulation distortion.