BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 54 - Organ Recital with Isabelle Demers (320kbps .mp3)

BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 54 - Organ Recital with Isabelle Demers (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: Canadian organist Isabelle Demers makes her Proms debut with a recital of works by Bach, Reger, Coleridge-Taylor and William Grant Still – plus a world premiere from Canadian composer Rachel Laurin.

01. Wagner - The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – Prelude to Act 1 (transcr. Demers)
01a. Introduction to Isabelle Demers’ organ recital
02. Laurin, Rachel - Prelude and Fugue in G major (world premiere)
03. Bach, J. S. - Cantata No. 146, ‘Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal’ – Sinfonia (arr. Dupré)
04. Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel - Three Impromptus
05. Reger, Max - Chorale Fantasia on ‘Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott’
06. Still, William Grant - Elegy
07. Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet (excerpts, transcr. Demers)

Isabelle Demers, organ

Canadian organist Isabelle Demers makes her Proms debut, putting the Royal Albert Hall’s mighty 9,999-pipe organ through its paces. The rigour of Bach and Reger (born 150 years ago) contrasts with lighter pieces by Coleridge-Taylor and William Grant Still and a world premiere from Canadian composer Rachel Laurin. This is all framed with the drama of excerpts from stage-works by Wagner and Prokofiev.

Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London


Broadcast: 26 August 2023