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One of the largest new instruments to be built in a European concert hall in recent times will be inaugurated in a special concert in Katowice, Poland, on Friday 13 January.<\/p>\n
Finnish composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen<\/strong><\/a> will direct the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR)<\/strong><\/a> and soloist Iveta Apklana in the world premiere of his new 25-minute Organ Concerto, co-commissioned by NOSPR, Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonie de Paris, Los Angeles Philharmonic and NDR Elphilharmonie Orchestra.<\/p>\n The new instrument has over a million parts, more than 7000 pipes and 105 stops, and measures 13 metres high, nine metres wide and six metres deep. That gives it a volume of 150 square metres, roughly equivalent to a single-storey house.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/section> Under construction since April 2017, and the largest instrument ever built by the Slovenian organ builders \u0160krabl, the new organ has cost 20.6m Polish Z\u0142oty (PLN), roughly \u00a33.9 million.<\/p>\n The organ is built in the French Symphonic style, and is inspired by the instruments in Rouen Cathedral and Notre-D\u00e2me de Paris. The basic modelling follows the broad concepts set down by the pioneering 19th-century organ builder Aristide Cavaill\u00e9-Coll<\/strong><\/a>. To these concepts, however, it adds cutting-edge technology such as electromagnetic, electronic and fibre-optic systems.<\/p>\n The new organ makes a grand addition to Katowice\u2019s 1,800-seat NOSPR concert hall, which opened in 2014 and serves as home to the National Radio Symphony Orchestra of Poland.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/section> \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n By Steve Wright Published: Wednesday, 11 January 2023 at 12:00 am One of the largest new instruments to be built in a European concert hall in recent times will be inaugurated in a special concert in Katowice, Poland, on Friday 13 January. Finnish composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen will direct the National Polish Radio Symphony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":23279,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/europes-biggest-new-concert-hall-organ-launches-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/europes-biggest-new-concert-hall-organ-launches-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/europes-biggest-new-concert-hall-organ-launches-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/europes-biggest-new-concert-hall-organ-launches-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/europes-biggest-new-concert-hall-organ-launches-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/europes-biggest-new-concert-hall-organ-launches-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/europes-biggest-new-concert-hall-organ-launches-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Steve Wright Published: Wednesday, 11 January 2023 at 12:00 am One of the largest new instruments to be built in a European concert hall in recent times will be inaugurated in a special concert in Katowice, Poland, on Friday 13 January. Finnish composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen will direct the National Polish Radio Symphony…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/23278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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