Browse: Iveta Apkalna (organ)

I can say that Apkalna is very musical and that the registers and voicing she selects are varied and colorful. The scale ranges from a delicate chamber organ to a walloping fortissimo with floor-shaking... — Fanfare, Jul/Aug 2020 More…

The performances here could hardly be faulted for their commitment, with the wide-ranging SACD sound and overall presentation up to the consistently high standard of earlier releases in this... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2019 More…

A lean, cleanly contoured Glagolitic, lacking the elemental charge and raw abandon of some versions. Taras Bulba is generally well played, if again short on real cutting edge and excitement. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

If we think we hear Bach at one moment, then Mahler at the next, and then Widmann himself, then we’d be right: it’s a bit like being presented with the entire range of German art music in one... — Choir & Organ, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The exclusively 20th-century programme presents great challenges to Reinhold Friedrich and Iveta Apkalna which they meet with tremendous brilliance and élan. …it's fascinating to hear the constantly... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2009 More…

Her playing is totally assured and faithful to the printed score. The opening Toccata and Fugue in D minor is dispatched dramatically with meaty registrations. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2015 More…