\nLithuanian Folk Songs, (Arranged for Accordion Solo)
\n\nI. Lieliumoj
\nIl. Gee up, home / Siù namo, tprù namo
\nIll. A linden by the roadside bowed / Palinko liepa Salia kelio
\nIV. The verdant Rue / Ruta Zalioj
\nV. The Dawn is Breaking / Beaustanti aurele
A.L.VIVALDI: "Summer" from the Four Seasons (Arranged for Organ and Accordion)
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Creative and Production Team
\n\nOrgan|Iveta APKALNA
\n\nAccordion|Martynas LEVICKIS
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Artist Introduction
\n\nOrgan|Iveta APKALNA
\n\nLatvian organist Iveta APKALNA is considered one of the leading instrumentalists in the world. Since 2017 she has served as the titular organist of the Klais organ at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany. The January 2017 opening offered two world premieres: Wolfgang RIHM's Triptychon und Spruch in Memoriam Hans Henny Jahnn with Thomas HENGELBROCK and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Jörg WIDMANN's ARCHE with Kent NAGANO and the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. Most recently, she has released her new CD Light & Dark, the first solo album recorded on the Klais organ at the Elbphilharmonie, produced by the label Berlin Classics.
\n\nIveta APKALNA has earned international recognition for honours and competitions. In March 2018 she received the "Latvian Grand Music Award", the most prestigious award in music in Latvia, in the categories "Musician of the Year" and "Concert of the Year". Furthermore, she was appointed cultural ambassador of Latvia by receiving the "Excellence Award in Culture 2015" from the Latvian Ministry of Culture. Iveta APKALNA became the first organist to receive the title of "Best Performing Artist" award at the 2005 ECHO Klassik.
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Accordion|Martynas LEVICKIS
\n\nMartynas LEVICKIS likes to call his instrument a 'box of magic tricks'. And it's true: when this Lithuanian musician straps on his accordion and begins to play the audience often falls silent, spellbound as if watching an amazing magic show. The soundscapes that LEVICKIS succeeds in rising from his 'box of tricks' are truly as varied as they are unexpected and masterly. LEVICKIS is a man with a single mission: to at last secure for his eternally underestimated instrument the renown that it deserves. And he could hardly be more successful. The Independent had this to say about him: "The unbelievably talented Martynas LEVICKIS, the man who is single-handedly reinventing the accordion". While Classic FM declared: "This brilliant Lithuanian accordion player has captured the attention of the world of music and has caused people to see his instrument in a new light, realising that it is capable of great emotional expression".
\n\nLEVICKIS' career began in the dense woods of Lithuania, where he was already imitating the birds and the sound of the trees with his accordion at the age of three. When he was eight he then attended the S. Sondeckis School of the Arts in his hometown of Šiauliai before later going on to study under Owen Murray at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
\n\nThe steep trajectory of LEVICKIS' career as the ambassador of the accordion speeded up further when he won the casting show 'Lithuania's Got Talent' in 2010, becoming a superstar in his own country and thus finally proving that he and his instrument deserved international attention. This was followed by a debut album with Decca Classics – LEVICKIS was the first accordionist to sign with the label – and this shot immediately to number one in the British classical music charts. He also received more than 30 international awards for his work, including first place in the Coupe Mondiale World Accordion Championships.
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