Guest Organ Recital - Loreto Aramendi

Loreto Aramendi plays a wide ranging programme featuring transcriptions by the contemporary French organist Louis Robilliard alongside works of Buxtehude, Philip Glass and Tournemire which are guaranteed to show off a variety of colours from the new Eule organ of Magdalen College.
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Toccata in F BuxWV 156
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) tr. Louis Robilliard (b. 1939)
Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173 vii. Funérailles
Camille Saint-Saëns (1809-1847) tr. Louis Robilliard
Danse macabre, Op. 40
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) tr. Louis Robilliard
Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80 iii. Sicilienne
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Mad Rush
Charles Tournemire (1870-1939) tr. Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Choral-improvisation sur le “Victima Paschali”
Loreto Aramendi is an international concert organist and the principal organist of the Cavaillé-Coll organ (1863) at the Basilique of Santa María del Coro in San Sebastián, Spain. She has given numerous recitals at international festivals in the USA, Japan, Russia, Canada, Argentina, Chile, and most European countries, including venues such as the Opera City Concert Hall in Tokyo, the Auditorio Nacional of Madrid (Bach-Vermut), Notre-Dame de Paris, Moscow Cathedral, Hallgrímskikja in Reykjavik, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, Westminster Cathedral, Stavanger Concert Hall in Norway, Berlin Cathedral, and on Radio France, among others.

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Great organ music & playing. Good to hear new works or by unknown composers.