Winner of the 2013 Prague Spring Competition, organist Karol Mossakowski, to perform in the St Vitus Organ Octave series

As part of the St Vitus Organ Octave series celebrating the blessing of the new St Vitus Cathedral organ, Prague Spring will present a recital by Karol Mossakowski in St Vitus Cathedral on 18 June. Winner of the 2013 Prague Spring International Music Competition, titular organist of Saint-Sulpice in Paris and currently one of the world’s leading organists, Mossakowski performs in the most prestigious concert halls, including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Philharmonie de Paris and the Elbphilharmonie, as well as in the cathedrals of Vienna, Milan and Cologne. Mossakowski will demonstrate the extraordinary beauty of the instrument’s sound and the rich tonal and technical possibilities of the new St Vitus organ in a programme combining the monumental polyphonic music of Max Reger, the dreamlike musical landscapes of the French composer and war hero Jehan Alain, the restless Moto ostinato from Sunday Music by the internationally renowned Czech composer Petr Eben, and Charles-Marie Widor’s Symphony No. 5, in which the French master demonstrated that the organ, rightly known as the king of instruments, can rival a symphony orchestra in both sonic richness and colouristic variety.

The concert is reserved exclusively for donors who have contributed to the restoration of the St Vitus Cathedral organ.