Organ Gifts for Bedřich Smetana
The festive opening of the International Organ Festival will mainly feature the pearls of organ literature by French authors. It will culminate in the performance of the Improvised Symphony based on the symphonic poem „My Fatherland“ by this year’s celebrant, Bedřich Smetana.
Program
Thierry Escaich
Évocation II
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fuge in E minor, BWV 548
Marcel Dupré
Prelude and Fuge in G minor, Op. 7, No. 3
Zsolt Gárdonyi
Hommage à Marcel Dupré
Louis Vierne
Naïades and Les cloches de Hinckley from „24 Pièces de Fantaisie“
Karel Martínek
Improvised Symphony based on the symphonic poem „My Fatherland“ by Bedřich Smetana
Performers
- Karel Martínek – organ
