Thomas Ospital plays Charles-Marie WIDOR - Allegro Vivace from 5th Symphonie

Charles-Marie WIDOR - Allegro Vivace extrait de la cinquième symphonie Op. 42 N°5

Thomas Ospital sur le grand orgue de l'église Saint-Eustache, Paris.

[martinmeier]

By far the best performance of this piece I’ve heard!

[marieelisabeth]

7:56, mon moment préféré, je suis aux anges lorsque je vous écoute, cher Thomas

[mr]

Tous ces contrastes de couleur, ces nuances, cette énergie. Merci Thomas. On n'en perd pas une miette.

[Klaus-ftsi]

Organ music has been my great passion for more than 40 years. I thought I had heard almost all the great organists...then came Thomas Ospital...WOW!👍👍

[MartialFaure]

Un musicien total, une superbe maitrise de l'instrument, de la pure musique. Merci Monsieur

[vinyalonde]

Great work! Exciting performance. Not to take anything away from the skill of the organist but I am amazed at the organ: such range and complexity.

[darrylmiller]

This is one of the finest performances of this piece I've heard. Bravo, Thomas! I subscribe to all his YouTube performances and have heard him in performance on tour. He's one of the four or five best in the business today.

[james.flores]

Incredible memory work, playing and the organ is just the icing on the cake. Thanks for sharing this delicious upload. Like if you agree 👍😎

[marccheban]

This is THE MOST exciting and nuanced performance of this movement I have ever heard...it almost left me in tears. Thomas: You have captured the 'French' essence of this music and have clearly laid out its structure in your registration and tempo flexibility at important cadences. When you start to add all those glorious reeds your playing changes and becomes fiery and aggressive, as if the reeds are calling out to you. I feel like you have set free the soul of this amazing instrument and given joy to its expression. This is a gift that not even many French organists have. Your performance is truly French in every possible way. Felicitations! Thank you for using the 32' in the 'chorale' variation. Once Americans are allowed in Europe again and the Covid restrictions, I would love to come back to Paris, meet you and take you for a meal. My mother was native French and I'm been to that beautiful country over a dozen times. Thank you!

[gemmacoebergh]

One of the best performances I ever heard of this piece! And I like it that is was played 'upstairs'. That is the best place for music of Widor.

[TNYDCK]

That was amazing! I set this off as some background music but ended up giving it my full attention complete with headphones. If a performance grabs my attention like this I know it is special and this was special "with knobs on!" Great job.

Tempi sounded right; registration brought out aspects I had not noticed previously. I lost count of the registration changes! But it all fitted together seamlessly. This is my new favourite Widor 5 Allegro.

[knutfh]

Absolutely brilliant! Keep an eye out for this guy!

[antonmeyer]

Very colourful and skilled, great clarity and definition of motifs, great liberty taken in tempo.

[limitstoprogress]

Greetings from Canada! Great performance, many thank-yous!

[DIDIERDUCRET]

Thomas ... je viens de m'abonner et cette pièce est jouée avec grande passion .... j'adore... merci à toi et bravo pour autant de fougue

[sebastiantrinkl]

The best recording of this piece I have ever heard!

[alanbarthel]

A great musician, a fantastic instrument, and a marvellous acoustic! Bravissimo!

[vicouperuta]

Merci pour cette splendide interprétation !
Cela sonne à merveille à St Eustache !
Bravo !!!

[larrywoods]

One of the most talented organist playing young and also very handsome.

[michel]

Quand l'art musical a un tel Maitre, il doit être " vénéré " et " adulé " fortement . Le talent n'a pas d'âge . Thomas l'incarne avec justesse, sensibilité et force . Eblouissant, connaisseur de ses Oeuvres et leurs Auteurs il incarne le Ciel dans sa Splendeur . Divin Thomas, merci .... OOOO