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I know that performance. Very nice but, very, very fast. Don't get me wrong. If I could play it that fast I would. Once. But can you honestly say that a listener can make any sense of that? Only the pedal line makes any impression and, lets face it, this is not the Widor Tocatta, the pedal line in the Widor is a very accessible melody, ditto the Boellmann, the pedal line of the Dupre doesn't make lots of musical sense (but I like it) it just kind of holds the piece together. Played at the same kind of hyper-fast tempo that is popular for the Widor and the Boellmann and the Dupre just becomes an exercise in structured noise. You know the performer is doing something amazing, but what exactly, you don't have any earthly idea. In fact, I honestly thought I had gotten the wrong piece from the library when I tried to listen to this performance with the score in front of me!! I cannot use any performance online as any kind of guide or inspiration, I have simply been plodding through it every week or so. That's how I learned the Widor.
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