Description
Thomas Ospital walks proudly in the footsteps of master organists. Despite his young age, he has stepped into the big shoes of a professor of organ music at the Paris Conservatory and chief organist at St Eustache Church. Ospital has toured extensively in Asia and the United States, but he will return on the first day of the year to Helsinki to celebrate the three‑year anniversary of the Music House organs. The highlight of the concert is Camille Saint‑Saëns' atmospheric Danse macabre – "Dance of Death" – which will be preceded by the clock striking twelve to mark midnight. Ospital concludes his concert with improvisation. Expect skill, intellect and fire.
Program
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 12 Variations on the French song “Ah, vous dirai‑je maman”, K. 265 (arranged by Thomas Ospital)
Maurice Ravel: Hanhiemo series (arranged by Thomas Ospital)
I Princess Rose’s Pavane
II Little Thumb
III Little Rumilus, Empress of Porcelain Dolls
IV Beauty and the Beast
V Enchanted Garden
Camille Saint‑Saëns: Danse Macabre (arranged by Louis Robilliard)
Maurice Ravel: Couperin’s Grave (arranged by Thomas Ospital)
I Prelude
II Forlane
III Minuet
IV Rigaudon
Thomas Ospital: Improvisation
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