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Prom 10: Faure, Franck and Widor's Toccata

Live at the ±«Óătv 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 ±«Óătv Proms: Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna makes her Proms debut with a programme of French 19th- and 20th-century music by FaurĂ©, 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 PiÚces - PiÚce héroïque
Fauré: 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 Évocations
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 'Évocations', 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.
  • CĂ©sar Franck

    Trois PiÚces - PiÚce héroïque

    Performer: Iveta Apkalna.
  • Gabriel FaurĂ©

    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 Évocations

    Performer: Iveta Apkalna.

Broadcast

  • Sun 22 Jul 2018 11:00

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