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The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: 2015 Season: Prom 52

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 52: Part 2: Prom 52 (part 2): Thierry Escaich

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Part 2 Part 2: Prom 52 (part 2): Thierry Escaich

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Prom 52 (part 2): Thierry Escaich

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Thierry Escaich performs organ music by Bach, Mendelssohn and Brahms.

An organ Prom featuring soloist Thierry Escaich concludes with music by Bach, Mendelssohn and Brahms.

Bach and beyond - a fascinating musical journey with Thierry Escaich, live at the BBC Proms. Escaich juxtaposes the organ music of JS Bach with responses to it by Mendelssohn and Brahms, as well as demonstrating his own improvisatory skills on the organ of the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Christopher Cook 

Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
Brahms: Prelude and Fugue in G minor, WoO 10
Brahms: Chorale Prelude 'Herzliebster Jesu'
Bach: Chorale Prelude 'In dir ist Freude', BWV 615

8.20 pm Interval

8.40 pm
Bach: Chorale Prelude 'Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir', BWV 686
Mendelssohn: Organ Sonata in A major, Op.65 No.3
Brahms: Chorale Prelude 'Herzlich tut mich verlangen', Op.122 No.1
Bach: Chorale 'Christ ist erstanden', BWV 746 (attrib.)

Thierry Escaich (organ)

Thierry Escaich is the renowned organist of the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris (where he is a successor to Maurice Duruflé), and an ambassador of the great French School of improvisation.

BBC Proms: 2015

BBC Proms: 2015: Prom 52

Prom 52

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 121st season of the BBC Proms.

Thierry Escaich performs organ music by Bach, Brahms and Mendelssohn

A Prom in which Thierry Escaich performs on the Royal Albert Hall's famous organ. With music by Bach, Brahms and Mendelssohn

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