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Prom 10: Faure, Franck and Widor's Toccata

Live at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms, Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna makes her Proms debut, performing works by Faure, Franck and the Toccata from Widor's Organ Symphony No 5.

Live at ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna makes her Proms debut with a programme of French 19th- and 20th-century music by FaurΓ©, 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 Pièces - Pièce héroïque
FaurΓ©: 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 Γ‰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 'Γ‰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.

1 hour

Music Played

  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Organ Symphony No 5 in F minor

    Performer: Iveta Apkalna.
  • CΓ©sar Franck

    Trois Pièces - Pièce héroïque

    Performer: Iveta Apkalna.
  • Gabriel FaurΓ©

    Pavane (arr. Apkalna)

    Performer: Iveta Apkalna.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasia in G major, BWV572

    Performer: Iveta Apkalna.
  • Sir George Thomas Thalben-Ball

    Variations on a Theme by Paganini (A Study for the Pedals)

    Performer: Iveta Apkalna.
  • Thierry Escaich

    Deux Γ‰vocations

    Performer: Iveta Apkalna.

Broadcast

  • Sun 22 Jul 2018 11:00

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