大象传媒

Live at 大象传媒 Proms: Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna makes her Proms debut with a programme of French 19th- and 20th-century music by Faur茅, Franck and Widor's Toccata

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Widor: Organ Symphony No 5 in F minor, Op 42
Franck: Trois Pi猫ces - Pi猫ce h茅ro茂que
Faur茅: Pavane (arr. Apkalna)
J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G major, BWV 572
Sir George Thomas Thalben-Ball: Variations on a Theme by Paganini (A Study for the Pedals)
Thierry Escaich: Deux 脡vocations
ENCORE: Aivars Kalejs (b. 1951): Toccata on the Chorale 'Allein Gott'

Iveta Apkalna, organ

Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna makes her Proms debut with a programme of French 19th- and 20th-century music.
Widor's thrilling Organ Symphony No. 5, with its famous final-movement Toccata, offers sprawling, extrovert drama, a mood it shares with prize-winning French composer-organist Thierry Escaich's exuberant '脡vocations', with their nods to Baroque and Renaissance music.
Works by Franck and Bach's great G major Fantasia, with its 'wonderful variations and foreign tones', complete the programme given on the Royal Albert Hall's famous 'Father' Willis organ.