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5:49 Wow! 😊😳😍🥰😅

This is pure 100% Tournemire. Magnificent organ and playing. What a sound. Cavaille-Coll purists will disagree that this organ is his finest since there have been so many changes made that it is hardly distinguishable from the original instument. Still I will not argue that this organ sounds magnificent.

"A.M.D.G." ("Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam")!

How much I miss playing

What a wonderfully chaotic piece of organ music! Delightful find... Makes me wish I had a better sound system...

That opening fanfare is just............

Beautiful,

Powerful

For me this is the No1 performance of this "piece" on YT. I just sadly read that Mr Metzler died in 2017.... RIP! :(

The organ is that of Notre Dame? Magnificent instrument in any case!!!

Who is this fantástic organist? He or she gives me goosepimples.....WOW......

Beautiful

Ive always thought it strange that Tournemire ended this piece in a different key from the one he started one. Seems like a strange choice.

Thanks a lot for uploading ! (X5)

As a preschool child I was transfixed by this piece, played by E Power Biggs.

This arrangement is identical to that found in E. Power Biggs' 'Treasury of Early Organ Music'. EPB edited this volume, but the arranger is not identified.

Henry Hokans was a personal family friend for many years, and I was fortunate enough to spend time with him shortly before his death in June of 2015. As a young teenager in the early 70s, I sang under his direction in the St. Cecilia Choir at All Saints Church in Worcester, MA, and also under his direction in the Worcester Concert Choir, which was a secular group based in Worcester consisting of girls, men, and boys. Hank was an amazing man whom I loved and respected, and now miss. It's wonderful to know his music is alive and well.

The first Contrebombarde D pointing down the first Chamade D coupled in a fraction second at 5m07s is one of the only reasons for me this organ will always be the greatest of all of them...!

Bravissimo!!

William Walond deserves more recognition, and is mostly overshadowed in the musical literature by baroque contemporaries (you know who you are! :) ). Hokans performs brilliantly, with wonderful phrasing appropriate to the period, and a clean registration that gives sense of joy in the Toccata without being overbearing. I especially like the subtly of the registration changes for the echo parts - not too much, but enough to give a perfect echo effect. This piece is pure joy, of the baroque kind, LISTEN to it!

Grandioze mystiek van de vaak onbegrepen en ook ondergewaardeerde Charles Tournemire. Jim Metzler speelt op uitmuntende wijze dit prachtige werk!

Beautiful music, singing, and message.

Great! Thanks!

Jim is.... simply amazing!

A particularly beautiful performance in one of the world's most beautiful spaces. Very faithful to the composer's intent. A great model for other choir's to follow.

A beautiful rendition of Freidel's masterpiece!

Fantastic! More, Please!!!!

Wow! I remember hearing this piece as a yongster. In the early 1970s, it was the the theme to "The King of Instruments". It was a Sunday afternoon NPR program that was all pipe organ and church congregations singing.

@sediavindivoh Charles Tournemire was a great improviser but this piece is a written down as a part of the large organ cycle L’Orgue Mystique (No. 51).

LOVE this piece! I had the privilege of singing it with my college chorus.

What an incredible sound. I love it. Thank you very much.

I have a question. Was this song improvised at some point? It says Improvisation in the title. :D

Het is inderdaad een feest om naar deze overweldigende muziek te luisteren. Bovendien een goede live uitvoering.

ARISTIDE CAVAILLE COLL heeft de mooiste orgels ter wereld geschapen. De zeer mystieke muziek van Charles Tournemire komt geweldig goed tot zijn recht op dit fantastische instrument. Te Deum spelen voor Onze Lieve Heer, dat is het einde en dat doet Tournemire nu voor GOD in het tijdloze Hiernamaals. ALLE EER AAN GOD.

Larry King is one of my favorite "contemporary" composers. He was at Trinity Wall Street for a number of years. My choir sang this piece a few year back. Beautiful lush melodies and harmonies that fill the heart with peace and joy.

I think has got to be one of my all time favourites!!!

Wow - church heavy rock. Amazing how a single instrument and person can make such an incredible sound. Wish I'd been there to hear - and feel - it first hand.

@Jeanseborg Oh, I see. You meant the eras of the Organ itself.

@jeanseborg Vierne did use this organ. In fact he died on the console. He was a titulaire. Are you talking about an organ in his personal possession? (this is notre Dame in the Video.

Best recording EVER!

Yes, beautifully played, at a very nice, sedate tempo.

This is a stunning performance. Bravo!

It sounds almost like Vierne's organ! :D Nice registration choice of the organist!

Very nice

Fantastic !! At Notre-Dame this incredible piece does more than rock of course !!

This is the best I have heard the organ of Notre Dame de Paris sound since before the 1990 bastardization uh i mean restoration. Bravo to your brilliant performance.

Gorgeous piece. Beautifully executed.

Fine performance! This is one of my favorites but is less performed than it should be. I sat across from you at the opening dinner, AGO Detroit '09 and was the one with Arkansas connections. Keep up your wonderful contributions to RUclips.

This is absolutely stunning. Bravo and thank you!