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    Sat May 29 2010, 20:00
    Kathedrale

    € 22 / 12

    Organ Recital Iveta Apkalna
    Iveta Apkalna photo: Nils Vilnis

    Iveta Apkalna [Organ]


    Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in D-Major, BWV 532
    Robert Schumann: Four Sketches, Opus 58
    Peteris Vasks: Te Deum
    Sergey Prokofiev/Sebastian Meyer: Prelude, Opus 12
    Sergey Prokofiev/Jean Guillou: March in C-Major from »The Love for Three Oranges«, Opus 33
    Dmitri Shostakovich: Passacaglia from »Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District«, Opus 29


    »Schumann at 200«

    It is easy to believe that Iveta Apkalna might rescue her instrument from its niche existence. In 2005, an »ECHO Classic« Award was presented for the first time to an organist, this young Latvian who also bagged the Audience Award. Apkalna calls Bach her »daily bread«, but the Silbermann organ at the Hofkirche (Royal Chapel) will not just resound with works by the Thomaskantor under her hands, but also Schumann’s »Four Sketches« Opus 58, from his time in Dresden. With Peteris Vasks and his »Te Deum«, a major composer of Apkalna’s homeland is also represented – Latvia, where the »singing revolution« of 1989 is unforgotten. Thus, it seems befitting to close the program with the Passacaglia from Shostakovich’s opera »Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District«, which was banned for years.

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