Iveta Apkalna - Triptychon (Vasks - Bach - Liszt) (2021)

Having garnered the ultimate accolades from a host of arts review pages for her premiere recording on the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie’s organ and on the double organ of the Taiwanese Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, concert organist Iveta Apkalna now presents her third release on the Berlin Classics label as a triple album. "Triptychon" spans three centuries and three religious confessions on one single organ: Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt and Pēteris Vasks can be heard on this, the first release of a recording played in Neubrandenburg’s Concert Church on the organ which she helped to develop and inaugurated.

Apkalna opens the first altar panel with three works by her compatriot and personal friend: alongside Arvo Pärt, Pēteris Vasks is the best known and most often played Baltic composer. “Latvia is Pēteris Vasks and Pēteris Vasks is Latvia”, explains the organist. “I hear the landscape of Latvia in his music, the far horizons of our flat country, the meadows and forests, birdsong and the sea. Pēteris Vasks is undoubtedly a truly Latvian character, though he also breathes the "global air". Otherwise people all around the world would not love his music”.
Tracklist
CD1
01. Hymnus (13:10)
02. Baltā ainava (10:30)
03. Musica seria (17:14)

CD2
01. Toccata, Adagio and Fugue, BWV 564- I. Toccata (6:27)
02. Toccata, Adagio and Fugue, BWV 564- II. Adagio (4:44)
03. Toccata, Adagio and Fugue, BWV 564- III. Fugue (4:44)
04. Trio Sonata, BWV 527- I. Andante (5:39)
05. Trio Sonata, BWV 527- II. Adagio e dolce (6:23)
06. Trio Sonata, BWV 527- III. Vivace (3:50)
07. Schübler Chorales- 1. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Sti (4:36)
08. Schübler Chorales- 2. Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV (1:54)
09. Schübler Chorales- 3. Wer nur den lieben Gott läss (4:03)
10. Schübler Chorales- 4. Meine Seele erhebt den Herre (2:43)
11. Schübler Chorales- 5. Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu (2:27)
12. Schübler Chorales- 6. Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Him (3:39)

CD3
01. Prelude and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H, S.260- Pre (4:40)
02. Prelude and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H, S.260- Fug (9:20)
03. Nun danket alle Gott, S.61 (7:17)
04. Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale -Ad nos, ad salut (22:03)
05. Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale -Ad nos, ad salut (10:36)