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PHOTO: International Organ Music Festival “ORGANISMS” with the participation of Raimonds Pauls, Iveta Apkalna and LNSO

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.

Before the evening concert, the audience had the opportunity to participate in pre-concert talks, in which Orest Silabriedis talked about the concert and especially cooperation with Maestro Raimonds Pauls with Gundas Vaivods, conductor Jānis Stafecks, actors Gundars Āboliņš and composer Juris Vaivodas, director of the Daile Theater musical department.

In addition to the works of Gija Kančeli and Semjuel Bārber, Raimonds Pauls’ compositions in new arrangements and arrangements for organ, composed by the composer Anna Veismane, were premiered in the festival’s large concert program. The surprise prepared by Raimonds Pauls for Iveta Apkalna – the composition “Pie baznīcas” – also experienced its premiere. A particularly thrilling moment in the concert was the change of instruments by Raimonds Pauls and Iveta Apkalna to the Latgalian folk song “Behind the High Column of Azara” – both Apkalns at the piano and Pauls at the organ were surprised, although the musicians themselves are not unfamiliar with these instruments. once mastered. As the musicians, visitors and the organizers of the festival – the team of Latgale Embassy GORS – admitted after the concert, this evening will be remembered by everyone for a long time as an incredible but bright miracle of meeting in this difficult time.

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