Thursday 22 August 2002, at 8.00 pm

Edouard Oganessian (Paris)

Edouard Oganessian began studying the piano at the age of five and the organ ten years later, entering the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow at the age of eighteen in the classes of Mikhail Voskressensky (piano) and Leonide Roysman (organ). He studied in Western Europe with Leo Krämer, Hans Haselböck, José Uriol and Luigi Celeguin. A prize-winner of the Franz Liszt organ competition in Budapest, he has participated in international organ festivals in Moscow, Talinn, Budapest, Prague, Bratislava, Dublin, Speyer and Jerusalem, and has made many recordings for the various broadcasting and television stations of the former Soviet Union and of Eastern European countries. He performs regularly in prestigious concert halls, giving both recitals and concerts with the national orchestras of Russia, White Russia, Lithuania and Latvia. In 1997 he recorded with his friend Alexandre Kniazev the four sonatas for cello and piano by Max Reger, to much critical acclaim.

François Couperin (1668–1733)
From Messe pour les Couvents:
- Plein jeu
- Tierce en taille
- Dialogue sur les grands jeux

Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
Offrande au Saint Sacrement (discovered in 1997)

Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986)
Suite, op. 5
- Prelude
- Sicilienne
- Toccata

Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937)
Symphony no. 6 in G minor, op. 42 no. 2 (1880)
- Allegro
- Adagio
- Intermezzo
- Cantabile
- Finale