We would like to inform our audience that according to the government decision effective from 11 November 2020, no public events can be held, so we are unable to hold concerts at the Liszt Academy with an audience. However, our audience will not be left without a concert experience, as most of our performances will be held and broadcast online in our Digital Concert Hall, and most of the concerts of the orchestras organizing concert series at the Liszt Academy will also be available online.

29 October 2019, 19.30-22.00
Grand Hall
Organ in the Centre
Iveta Apkalna
Presented by Liszt Academy
J. S. Bach: Fantasia in G major, BWV 572 (‘Pièce d’Orgue’)
Mendelssohn: Organ Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 65/4
J. S. Bach: Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582
intermission
Müthel: Fantasy in F major
Pēteris Vasks: Hymnus (dedicated to Iveta Apkalna)
Pēteris Vasks: Musique du soir
Kalniņš: Fantasia in G minor
Iveta Apkalna (organ)
Featuring: Eszter Karasszon (cello)
Iveta Apkalna, one of the most significant concert organists today, has been artist in resident of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg since its opening in 2017. In her multihued programmes the Latvian musician blends past with present, keeping in mind that this instrument with a past of several hundred years should appear as a modern medium, providing audiences with an auditive experience only the organ is capable of delivering. In the first half of the concert we have two fine compositions from the pen of Bach as well as a work by Johann Gottfried Müthel, the last student of the Baroque master and a composer who spent most of his life in Riga. Furthermore, there is a Mendelssohn sonata associating Bach traditions with Romantic ideas. Apkalna, as musical-cultural ambassador for her country, performs two compositions by world-famous Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks, one of which is a brand-new work commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic on the centenary of the formation of the orchestra. This exciting programme demonstrating the timbre and character of the organ closes with a work by another Latvian composer, Alfrēds Kalniņš.
The concert is followed by CODA – which is an informal conversation with the performers.
Tickets:
HUF 1 900, 2 900, 3 900