Since you are interested in Widor: Organ Favourites (Incls Toccata from Symphony No 5), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
JOHANN BAPTIST VANHAL
Vanhal: Missa pastoralis in G / Missa Solemnis in C Mary Enid Haines, Nina Scott Stoddart / Tower Voices New Zealand / Uwe Grodd [ Naxos 18th Century Sacred Music / CD - released 1/Jun/2001 ] Recorded at St John's Cathedral, Napier-July/August 2000 |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
The very best of Handel: Excerpts from orchestral, vocal, keyboard and chamber works Kym Amps (soprano) Ulrike Andersen (alto) Johann Aratore (organ) Anthony Camden (oboe) Alan Cuckston (harpsichord) and many others [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2005 ] Presented in a stylish slipcase with a modern take on John Minnion's composer cartoons, with detailed track listings and accessible texts on the composer's life and an overview of their most famous works. |
TOMKINS
Choral and Organ Works Laurence Cummings (organ) / Oxford Camerata; Jeremy Summerly, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] "Much of the music on this excellent recording was composed during Tomkins's final decade, before his death in 1656 in relative obscurity... At all times, the Oxford Cameratta, led by Jeremy Summerly, sing with the clarity and purity of voice... |
GEORG MUFFAT
Organ Works, Vol. 1 (Apparatus musico-organisticus, Part I) Martin Haselbock (organ) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 5/Jun/2005 ] Georg Muffat was born in Megève, Savoy, into a family of Scottish ancestry. As a boy he went to Alsace, then to Paris where he was proud to have studied with the great Lully from 1663 to 1669. |
MAX REGER
Organ Works Vol 6: 6 Trios, Op. 47 / Introduction, Variations and Fugue, Op. 73 Martin Welzel (organ) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 23/Oct/2005 ] "This Naxos Reger series is to be applauded and supported. I welcomed Volume 5 back in June this year; I welcome this volume just as much – if anything, even more" (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
HEALEY WILLAN
In the Heavenly Kingdom Matthew Larkin (Organ) / Joseph Schnurr (Tenor) / Elora Festival Singers / Noel Edison (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Jun/2006 ] Healey Willan had a life-long love affair with the human voice – perhaps not surprisingly as his first solid instruction in music came to him as choirboy and he finished his life as an organist and choirmaster. |
WILLAN
Organ Works Patrick Wedd (organ) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2006 ] James Healey Willan was born on 12th October, 1880, in Balham, a suburb of London. Willan’s father was a pharmacist, and no one else in the family was a professional musician. His parents, however, recognised and encouraged their son’s evident... |
MARCEL DUPRE
Works for organ Vol 12 Robert Delcamp (organ) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 1/May/2004 ] "...a fine recording of some of Dupre's less often heard pieces." - American Record Guide (Donald E Metz) July/August 2001 |
GUILMANT
Organ Works Robert Delcamp (organ) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ] "This is a great addition to the ever increasing library of organ music available at reasonable price and excellent quality on Naxos. For that reason alone I imagine many people could be tempted to add it their collection." (MusicWeb March 2006) |
Robert Delcamp, organ
Saint-Saens - Organ Music [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Apr/2005 ] "An excellent opportunity to move beyond the familiar. This is a fine introduction to the organ music of one of France's great composers." (MusicWeb March 2005) |