Barber: Toccata Festiva ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Iveta Apkalna ∙ Andrés Orozco-Estrada

Samuel Barber:
Toccata Festiva op. 36 ∙
hr-Sinfonieorchester - Frankfurt Radio Symphony ∙
Iveta Apkalna, Orgel ∙
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Dirigent ∙
hr-Sinfoniekonzert ∙
Alte Oper Frankfurt, 13. September 2019 ∙
Website: www.hr-sinfonieorchester.de ∙
Facebook: / hrsinfonieorchester

[@powerliftingcentaur]

They are playing Barber in Frankfurt, and brilliantly. Grateful. The organist is glorious.

[@pibbles-a-plenty1105]

This one is new to me. Barber's music always has a twist of something in it, like an exotic drink. I either wince or savor what I'm hearing, there's just no letting it glide by. This is a show piece for organist and orchestra, a great introduction to 20th century music appreciation, in my opinion. Some day it will be ancient music, beloved and ignored, but still a gem forever.

[@WillemvanTwillertOrganist]

Exciting.

[@mikerehling]

Iveta Apkalna is taming the beast and making it do her will!!! My God is this a lovely rendition.

[@stephenmessick865]

Fascinating and dramatic--a Toccata Festiva for sure. By the way at around 15:00 I witnessed the fastest page turn in history by the organist. Bravo!

[@mahlerii]

All and all, this is a virtuoso organ concerto. And not just for the organ, the orchestral part is quite virtuosic as well. Even more, Barber's music is very inspired and the end of the work is so exciting.

[@user-rg9pb3sh4y]

Many thanks!

[@pierrevincentplante5509]

Fantastic! Very impressed…❤

[@marettawilson9588]

THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST ORCHESTRAS PHENOMENAL MUSICIANS

[@MichaelConwayBaker]

Barber's music is always interesting and beautifully orchestrated. This is a superb performance by soloist, orchestra and conductor. Bravo!

[@tonylamberti9623]

A powerful organ work..love the orch.and she is grand..this is a powerful work for both the organist and the orch..what a great conductor...love it..love his operas...thanks for showing it..

[@chateaudebouniagues60]

thanks for this magic moment !!!!! wonderful !

[@skyworkerBLN]

OMG!!!! ITS INCREDIBLE!!!!

[@skymarshallmarz5573]

Great playing from orchestra and organist. Iveta, thats a terrific outfit, by the way. Futuristic without being gaudy.

[@ctolbert6]

Wow! Thrilling performance! And I say that thinking I own 90% of the recordings made of this work.

[@BritinIsrael]

For those who are not acquainted with the music of Barber apart from his famous Adagio i suggest you try his violin concerto. It's a gem!

[@paullewis2413]

Barber’s violin concerto is wonderful, has to be in my top 5 favourites 😊

[@robertvarner9079]

Great composition and great interpretation.

[@berndstang2225]

Welch geniales Werk, und was für eine geniale Interpretation

[@kentjones2321]

The pedal cadenza is something else. Ms. Apkalna deserves some sort of award for most creative use of chunky heels in an organ performance! Check out the heel-toe double stops around the middle of it. By the way, the cadenza was evidently the result of Barber's collaboration with organist-conductor Thomas Schippers. Bravo!

[@BritinIsrael]

I always thought he collaborated with the great organist E Power Biggs.

[@kentjones2321]

@@BritinIsrael I had an old Columbia LP with a performance of this piece, always one of my favorite organ works. I think it was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, with E. Power Biggs. The concert notes relayed the composer's collaborative credit to Thomas Schippers for the cadenza.

[@BritinIsrael]

@@kentjones2321 i stand corrected. For many years i had the CBS recording with E Power Biggs/ Ormandy. If im not mistaken it was coupled with the Poulenc Organ Concerto.

[@mahlerii]

@@BritinIsrael The LP that I have is called "Music for Organ and Orchestra" and yes, the Poulenc was on it as well as the Strauss Festival Prelude.

[@mmbmbmbmb]

Extraordinary ~ thank you !

[@Troubleshooter125]

In a word ... *WOOF!!!* This was my first exposure to organist Iveta Apkalna, but it WON'T be my last! This young lady took that piece and OWNED it, beginning to end and most especially that daunting pedal solo in the middle. Wonderful work, brilliantly played! BRAVA, Iveta!!!

[@lilalola33]

Großartiges Orchester.Wunderbare Organistin !!

[@claudiolehmann775]

Very exciting piece by Barber by several instruments including organ, briliantly performed by Iveta Apkalna

[@angelinamaria9437]

Maravilhoso🌟 sublime🌟 lindíssimo🌟 obrigada por🌟 partilhar🌟 🌟 saudades 🇵🇹🌟🌟🌟

[@branweg]

So so so beautiful.

[@kingbuzz2764]

Wonderful! Thank you.

[@samyard]

Phantastisch. Vielen Dank 😍

[@ron88303]

Wow! She's good!

[@roberthuber5589]

bravo !

[@MrClaudeholmes]

Magnificent Outstanding Performance ! This one definitely rate with the Performance first performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra in their opening of their New Concert Venue ( VERIZON HALL ) inside of the KIMMEL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 2006. I've heard several recorded performances . For me these are the 2 BEST LIVE recorded performances to date *

[@bartjebartmans]

Fantastic, the work, the organist, the orchestra, the conductor, everything. I expected a standing ovation....... but not.

[@suzannenoel3610]

I saw this same concert (but the previous night's performance), and it was spectacular. We were 5 rows back and saw the amazing footwork of the soloist. Stunning. BTW, German audiences tend not to give standing ovations. I've witnessed that in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Hamburg -- they'll whoop it up but not give standing ovations.

[@Troubleshooter125]

@@suzannenoel3610 Let Iveta come to Cleveland and play that with The Cleveland Orchestra. I will freaking GUARANTEE her a standing ovation!

[@suzannenoel3610]

@@Troubleshooter125 Good for you! She deserves it.

[@Troubleshooter125]

@@suzannenoel3610 And as it turns out, Ms. Apkalna *IS* coming to Cleveland this May to play this very work. Do I have tickets? *I'll Give You ONE GUESS!!!* 😁

[@suzannenoel3610]

@@Troubleshooter125 That's great! You'll love it.

[@andrewpetersen5272]

Barber never fails to evoke emotions I did not know were latent in my soul.

[@TheStockwell]

Astonishing! I am an admirer of Barber's music and didn't know this amazing work existed. Thank you, hr-Sinfonie Orchester!

[@andrewpetersen5272]

Sadly seldom performed in America despite so many fancy new concert halls.

[@jaapcramer]

I had the same when I discovered his Prayers of Kierkegaard, also seldom performed, but so amazing!

[@Troubleshooter125]

@@andrewpetersen5272 Got a news bulletin for ya. The Cleveland Orchestra is tackling the Toccata next May ... and the lovely and HIGHLY talented Iveta Apkalna will be the soloist! *I Can't Wait!!!*

[@2jmusic22]

"commissioned in 1960 to write Toccata Festiva, an occasional work for the Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy pairing organ and orchestra. The occasion was to inaugurate an impressive brand-new organ for the Academy of Music in Philadelphia that had been the gift of Mary Curtis Zimbalist. Also one of Barber's longtime patrons, Zimbalist not only paid for the organ ($150,000 in 1960 dollars) but commissioned the new piece to present it as well. (Barber graciously declined to accept any fee.) According to Barber's authoritative biographer, Barbara B. Heyman, the new Aeolian-Skinner organ was at the time of its building "the largest movable pipe organ in the world, weighing 200,000 pounds and having 4,102 pipes, three manuals, and seventy-three stops." "

[@gregghanson6095]

Jay Jacobs thank you!!

[@BritinIsrael]

Didn't the organist E Power Biggs give the premier with Ormandy?

[@marettawilson9588]

EXCELLENT PEDAL CAMERA WITH LARGE SCREEN SO ALL COULD APPRECIATE FOOTWORK AMAZING AND WITH LARGE HEEL

[@arammanukyan1467]

Thank you!

[@HamzaBaqoushi]

يا له من اكتشاف مثير What an outstanding discovery?

[@douglaskelly1394]

15:23 That page turn.

[@robertvarner9519]

At lighting speed. She is a no nonsense performer. Things WILL go her way.

[@duranayou]

Grandiosa obra y fnatástica interpretación. Me decepciona que no haya comentarios en español, y muy pocos en francés, o italiano, o portugués, ni siquiera en catalán, habida cuenta de que en Catalunya existe una enorme afición a la música.

[@suzychiu8544]

begin 0:30 A-diatonic Scale and 2.4.7. interval as motif. Fanfare sound as second theme. transition 1:36 in cello 2nd theme 1:48 in e center development 5:57 new sound (stravinsky alike) 6:31 vertical sound of fourth interval 7:58 insert episode 8:29 rhythm change into dotted triplet 2nd theme 9:31 full orchestra 9:47 in ascending scale (texture) cadenza 10:03 pedal in 12 tone 11:25 recapitulation 15:05

[@notaire2]

Lebhafte Aufführung dieses einzigartigen Meisterwerks mit gut artikulierten Töne der Orgel und farbenprächtigen Töne anderer Instrumente. Der geniale Maestro dirigiert das hoch funktionelle Orchester im rhythmischen Tempo mit effektiv kontrollierter Dynamik. Echt atemberaubend!

[@lilalola33]

Spielt so schön wie sie selber ist....Bin begeistert !!!!

[@tamminh971]

Thích những người bên đạo dậy đàn hay như vậy:)).

[@catherineouriaghli6396]

Un ange, Iveta Apalna...

[@1990Tide]

Magnificent! I need a Top 5 Drum Corps to translate this to a field show.

[@davebarclay4429]

5:57 - wow!

[@duranayou]

El pasaje del órgano solista a partir del minuto 10' es sugestivo, algo extraordinario, de una profundidad inusitada.

[@mattie781]

Una esecuzione fulgida - oso dire: europea, mitteleuropea. I timbri orchestrali sono restituiti in modo egregio.

[@WillemvanTwillertOrganist]

I like the pure organ, please never a digital sampler. 15:19-15:50 is very, very exiting

[@osushi1366]

このバーバーの作品初聴きです。 こういうの作曲したのですね！((=￣□￣=;))ﾅ､ﾅﾝﾄ!!

[@pierreferrero-lesur181]

aussi talentueuse que ravissante, un vrai bonheur.

[@UnaMoscaEnLaPared]

🤍

[@camilohiche4475]

Please watch this at the lowest quality only (144p) since it's just for the music, which is much more ecologically responsible than at a higher rate. Watching this at 240p (which is unnecessary for listening purposes), will increase the bandwith by double to almost tenfold! At 1080 the bandwith is augmented by a factor of 100! The use of digital technology accounts for 4% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, as much as the emissions from the world's truck fleet. Of that, a BIG part comes from livestreaming videos, mainly 3 sources : KZbin, Netlfix and porn. Let's enjoy this beautiful music by being aware and responsible and doing our little part in protecting this wonderful planet.

[@andrewpetersen5272]

Keep your global warming virtue signaling out of the comments. So ignorant.

[@pianistegolfeur]

Ca n'a pas le dynamisme du Concerto pour Orgue de Poulenc et par moments ça voudrait s'y apparenter, mais c'est dommage pour une Toccata qui n'a d'ailleurs pas l'air d'en être une... en tous cas on a une très belle "partie de jambes" !!!

[@painpaul2024]

c'est pas ce que je préfère ,il y a mieux en musique .

[@duranayou]

El pasaje del órgano solista a partir del minuto 10' es sugestivo, algo extraordinario, de una profundidad inusitada.

[@duranayou]

Cada cual tiene sus gustos, pero para mí es una obra sugestiva, con una interpretación impecable.

[@duranayou]

Te sugiero que escuches el concierto para órgano y orquesta de Poulenc, con los mismos intérpretes. Seguro que lo conoces.

[@jean-jacquessimon6703]

C'est désolant qu'en France, on ne parvienne pas à échapper à la ritournelle qui colle à ce compositeur surdoué. La première fois que j'ai entendu le concerto pour violon, en 1980 (Stern, orchestre national, Kondrachine), quelqu'un a soufflé autour de moi : "Barber, c'est barbant." Sotte remarque !

[@johnthefrogakakrazert819]

Here is my 5 cents of heresy. The high pitch organ sounds would have sounded better if they would have been done on a digital sampler using some EQ and artificial reverb.

[@gregghanson6095]

Barber and Ormandy sinning in their graves over your comment.

[@Tuscanskipper]

Utter nonsense

[@davidhume9455]

@@gregghanson6095 sinning in their graves, huh?

[@gregghanson6095]

So... you don't like the poor organ?

[@gregghanson6095]

David Hume haha...well maybe that too.