The Fifth International Organ Music Festival “ORGANISMS” started on Thursday, October 22, when, continuing the tradition of the festival’s guest artists’ concert, the Austrian duo of musicians – organist and composer Valentim Fheodoroff and harpist Julia Christine Lukan (Julia Christine Lukan) Organ and Harp ”, in which the voices of the mighty organ intertwined with the fragile sounds of the harp in the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach, Cesar Frank, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy and other composers
As the visitors of the concert admitted, when they discovered new aspects of organ music in Rezekne, it was nuanced, filled with the charm of French music and amazing. On the first day of the festival, in cooperation with Jānis Ivanovs Rezekne Music High School, organist Iveta Apkalna’s master class for young musicians took place, where Apkalna told about her experience and path directly from the music school here in Rēzekne to world concert hall stages and mighty cathedrals. individually.
The central event of the festival can certainly be considered the concert program created especially for the festival by Iveta Apkalna, maestro Raimonds Pauls and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, which took place on Saturday, October 24, and their listeners had the opportunity to enjoy both the rehearsal with the audience and the evening. music journalist Orests Silabriedis and director of Latvian Radio 3 Gunda Vaivode took on the role.