Improvisations will be a great attraction of the performance by organist Julian Gembalski. The audience will also have an influence on the repertoire he performs, and you will be invited to suggest themes for his improvisations.

The concert will begin with the performance of Offertoire pour le jour de Pâques "O filii et filiae" by Jean-François Dandrieu. This composer, organist and harpsichordist was active in the Baroque era. He was a prodigy and began his career spectacularly: at the age of five, he appeared before Louis XIV and his courtiers. His oeuvre is admittedly not very extensive, but quality prevails over quantity. Dandrieu also wrote an important treatise on accompaniment from the point of view of music history. For contemporary musicians, it is like a time machine, thanks to which they can get acquainted with performance practices of a bygone era.

César Franck is an artist who represents Romanticism. He was valued as a composer, teacher and organist, and the place of his employment in this capacity was the Basilica of St. Clotilde in Paris. Nineteenth-century France was a place of dynamic development of the art of organ building, which also influenced the style of the pieces written for this instrument, including the monumental works of Franck. One of them is the Pièce héroïque FWV 37, which features in this programme. The last programmed piece will be Gembalski's Christus iam surrexit, one of Ten Chorale Etudes