Organ matinee

French organist and pianist Alma Bettencourt has already won numerous prizes and scholarships, and has been the resident organist at Radio France in Paris since September 2025. For her debut at the Philharmonie Berlin, she presents a programme pairing French and German Romantic works. Alongside well-known works by Widor and Franck, the programme includes Liszt’s monumental Fantasy and Fugue on “Ad nos ad salutarem undam”.

Programme

Charles-Marie Widor
Organ Symphony No. 6 in G minor, op. 42 No. 2: 1st Movement Allegro

Camille Saint-Saëns
Prelude and Fugue in B major, op. 99 No. 2

Felix Mendelssohn
Variations sérieuses, op. 54 (arr. for organ by François Delor)

César Franck
Pastorale in E major, op. 19

Franz Liszt
Fantasy and Fugue on the Chorale “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam”