Charles-Marie Widor

Solo Organ Works

Joseph Nolan

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212043820

Catalog number: SIGCD 438
Releasedate: 07-07-17

- Part of continuing series of Widor works on historically relevant instruments with Joseph Nolan

- First release since Joseph was made a Chevalier (Knight) in the Order of French Arts and Letters for his services to French Music.

- Double album

Joseph Nolan follows his five internationally acclaimed volumes of the Complete Organ Symphonies of Charles-Marie Widor with a collection of the composer’s other works for solo organ. The disc includes his Trois Nouvelles Pieces, March amèricaine and Marche Nuptiale and Memento – a collection of transcriptions of works by J.S. Bach.

This release completes a collection of 6 CDs that span Widor’s complete solo organ works, performed by Nolan on period Cavaillé-Coll organs from the French churches of St Sernin, Toulouse, St. François-de Sales, Lyon and La Madeleine, Paris.

In April 2016, Joseph Nolan was made a Chevalier (Knight) in the Order of French Arts and Letters for his services to French Music.