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BBC Proms: 2018

BBC Proms: 2018: Prom 10: Faure, Franck and Widor's Toccata

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22/07/2018

Prom 10: Faure, Franck and Widor's Toccata

2018

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Live at the BBC Proms: Iveta Apkalna plays Fauré, Franck and Widor's Toccata.

Live at the BBC 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 BBC Proms: Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna makes her Proms debut with a programme of French 19th- and 20th-century music by Fauré, 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
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.

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All broadcasts from the 2018 season of the BBC Proms.

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