Iveta Apkalna - Lamour Et la Mort - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Mit Geliehener Aussicht - Umgebung 1+2 2. Reading Unicorn Skulls - the Town (Engraved Dreams) 3. Atonoba I+Ii 4. Ink, Colours and Gold on Paper Ii+Iii - Surroundings 2 5. Meinten Sie Red II (Version for Sextet) 6. Diagonalen in Kubischen Räumen I-III

The Queen of Instruments meets one of the world's leading organists, Iveta Apkalna. The repertoire of the new album includes Vasks' Viatore and Te Deum, as well as Pärt's famous Spiegel i'm Spiegel, Pari intervallo, Trivium, and Annum per annum. Two of the most important contemporary composers are united on one album, celebrating Pärt's 90th birthday in 2025 and Vasks' 80th birthday in 2026.Also captured on this is a milestone in music history it is the first-ever solo organ recording made on the organ of the Ventspils Concert Hall InchLatvijaInch-one of the most remarkable concert instruments in Northern Europe.

After coming to prominence as resident organistof the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Iveta Apkalnahas most recently been to the Far East, where in2018 she inaugurated Asia's largest concert organin Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She has now recorded hernew album on the organ at the NationalKaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying). It isan impressive instrument Almost 10,000 pipes inover 120 registers, located in a twin organ. On theright-hand half of the stage is the great symphonicorgan, which recreates the aesthetic timbre of theFrench Romantic style. And on the left there is thesmaller Inchecho organInch, oriented on the GermanBaroque repertoire. On this new album, IvetaApkalna has compiled a programme that unitesthe two organs by placing the focus on the FrenchRomantic style and making a brief foray to thefather of organ music, J.S. Bach.