BBC Proms, 2018, Prom 10 - Faure, Franck and Widor's Toccata (320kbps .mp3)

BBC Proms, 2018, Prom 10 - Faure, Franck and Widor's Toccata (320kbps .mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna makes her Proms debut with a programme including French 19th- and 20th-century music by Fauré, Franck and Widor's Toccata.

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.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

01. Widor - Organ Symphony No 5 in F minor, Op 42
01i. BBC Proms 2018, Prom 10 - general introduction
02. Franck - Trois Pièces - Pièce héroïque
03. Fauré - Pavane (arr. Apkalna)
04. J.S. Bach - Fantasia in G major, BWV 572
05. Sir George Thomas Thalben-Ball - Variations on a Theme by Paganini (A Study for the Pedals)
06. Thierry Escaich - Deux Évocations
07. Aivars Kalejs (b. 1951): Toccata on the Chorale 'Allein Gott' (encore)

Iveta Apkalna, organ

Briadcast: 22 July 2018, BBC Radio 3