Performance

Venue	Royal Albert Hall
	Also: Elgar Room
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	22nd July 2018
To	22nd July 2018
When	11:00
Royal Albert Hall (V221)
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Date of change: 31 May 18 - T902857264

Prom 10 - Faure, Franck & Widor's Toccata

Work:: Prom 10 (S339)

Part of the BBC Proms.

Production:: Faure, Franck & Widor's Toccata (T902857264)

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 ?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. There will be no interval

Performer

Iveta Apkalna (organ)

Listing:: L02033696949

Faure, Franck & Widor's Toccata

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 ?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. There will be no interval

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