Widor: Solo Organ Works – Joseph Nolan

   in Choir & Organ (Sep, 2017)
Joseph Nolan’s Widor survey continues with this group of less-played late works. The first CD opens with the often-mercurial Suite latine, post-dating Symphony no.10 by a quarter of a century. Nolan’s interpretation is characterised by a solid, if not quite innate, sense of the elderly Widor’s whimsy, coupled to a fine ability to control and project on these most venerable of Europe’s 19th-century organs. His feeling for phrase and colour is especially evident in the transcriptions that make up Bach’s Memento, well suited to the more lyrical, less blazingly intense instrument in Lyon. A pair of transcribed marches, the Marche américaine and Marche nuptiale, provide some concluding fun. Two …