Trailer: With Spirit and Fire - Kalevi Kiviniemi

With Spirit and Fire - Organ Sounds from Finland. Trailer to a film by Mika Koivusalo, featuring concert organist Kalevi Kiviniemi, six organs and one hour of organ music. Film will be premiered on International Online Organ Festival 2022 (IOOF), 18.4.-1.5.2022. Film will be available until December 31, 2022.
Music:
Kiviniemi: Variations on a theme La Folia
Improvisation: Dies Irae
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
Naji Hakim: In Spiritu et Igni
Michel Corrette: Introdution - Nöel Provençal - Grand Jeu
Béla Bartók: Suite
Kiviniemi: Fantasy on a Theme by Taneli Kuusisto
Jean Sibelius: Finlandia
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[@adoramus11]

Kalevi Kiviniemi is a world-renowned concert organist who has played in some of the most celebrated venues in the world, such as Notre-Dame de Paris, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Great Hall of Moscow Concervatory, and the Sejong Art Center in Soul, Korea.
He has given recitals at St. Sulpice and Basilique Sainte-Clotilde in Paris, Berlin Cathedral, Merseburg Cathedral, Saint John the Divine in New York, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel in Chicago, and Toronto Cathedral.
Having performed numerous times at Notre-Dame de Paris, Kalevi Kiviniemi filmed a document there in 2000 alongside Olivier Latry, l’organiste titulaire of the cathedral. Kiviniemi also performed solo recitals at Notre-Dame in 2002 and 2017. He appeared in several smaller performances in the cathedral, such as the 2007 International Mass alongside the boy’s choir Chorus Cathedralis Iuniorum, Conducted by Heikki Rainio.
Kiviniemi has toured in the USA, Europe, Japan, Russia, Asia, Australia, and the Philippines. In Japan he has been invited to the Metropolitan Theatre, Osaka Concert Hall, Sapporo Kitara Concert Hall, Yokohama Minato Mirai Concert Hall, And Tokyo Cathedral. In addition to solo recitals and chamber music concerts, Kiviniemi has appeared with major orchestras such as the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. He has served on the juries of international organ competitions (Nuremberg 1996, Capri 1998, Speyer 2001, Korshcenbroich 2005, St. Albans 2013, Strasbourg 2016). Kiviniemi was the artistic director of the Lahti International Organ Festival for eleven years, from 1991 to 2001. He also worked as the artistic counsellor of the Lapua Organ Festival in Finland for ten years.
Kalevi Kiviniemi’s discography includes nearly 200 titles, many of them featuring significant and unique organs across the US, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, Italy, France, Switzerland, and Germany. Notable recordings include the historical Cavaillé-Coll organs in Saint-ouen in Rouen, and in Cathedrale Sainte-Croix, Orléans. Among his awards, he has secured two gold records, and one platinum. In 2001, Kiviniemi received the Janne Prize for the best Finnish solo disc, and 2009 the coveted State Prize for Music in Finland. In 2012, he was knighted, receiving the title Chevalier OCM.

[@Sulogar]

and he schould Play Hauptkirche St.Petri Grand Organ Hamburg.

[@Derbixrace]

Dear kalevi, why did you delete the finlandia you did at a church? it was so good :(

[@wizwerv]

More films should have organ music!

[@ChristianFeldmann-h8s]

What organs are he use?

[@TheJakeman789]

This dudes crazy lol

[@stefanodeluca-jl2si]

R.I.P. Maestro