With organ who needs an orchestra? This rhetorical question seems to ring out throughout the programme Organ Music Days at the Kraków Philhrmonic. Sarah Kim, organist of l'Oratoire du Louvre, bring works such as Scherzo from Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony and Ravel’s La Valse. The Scott Brothers Duo offer the organ and piano arrangements of the overture to Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Grieg’s Peer Gynt suite, Debussy’s Clair de lune and Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Handel’s opera Salomon. The organist of the Notre-Dame Cathedral Olivier Latry (in the photo) has prepared French Christmas with works by Balbastre, Guilmant, Dupré, Langlais and Messiaen. The addition to the programme will be formed by Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 in C minor, monumental as the sound of the organ, as a finale of the year commemorating the Austrian composer on the 200th anniversary of his birth.

6 December 2024, 7:30pm
7 December 2024, 6pm
Finale of Anton Bruckner Year
Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra
José Maria Florêncio – condcutor
Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 108

8 December 2024, 6pm
Scott Brothers Duo:
Jonathan Scott – organ
Tom Scott – piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Magic Flute overture K. 620
Edvard Grieg Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46
Claude Debussy Clair de Lune from Suite bergamasque
Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
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Georg Friedrich Haendel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from the opera Salomon HWV 67
Pietro Yon Finale from Concerto Gregoriano
Tom Scott Timepiece
George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
(all works arranged by Scott Brothers)

15 December 2024, 6pm
Sarah Kim – organ
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fantasia and Fugue in F minor K. 608
Zsolt Gárdonyi Mozart Changes
Sigfrid Karg-Elert 3 Pièces, Op. 142, No. 2: Valse mignonne 
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor “Pathétique”, Op. 74, part 2: Scherzo (arr. J. Guillou)
Maurice Ravel La Valse (arr. S. Kim)
Charles-Marie Widor Symphony No. 6, Op. 42, part 2: Adagio, part 5: Finale

18 December 2024, 7:30pm
Olivier Latry – organ
Johann Sebastian Bach

• Prelude and Fugue in G major BWV 541
• Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645

Claude Balbastre Noël bourguignon
Camille Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals (selection, arr. Shin-Young Lee)
Alexandre Guilmant Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 42, part 3: Final. Allegro assai
Marcel Dupré Variations sur un Noël
Jean Langlais Poèmes évangéliques, part 2: Nativité
Olivier Messiaen La Nativité du Seigneur
Olivier Latry Improvisations