Anna Lapwood: How TikTok helped the organist reach the Royal Albert Hall
Anna Lapwood: How TikTok helped the organist reach the Royal Albert Hall
Image source, Nick RutterBy Tim MuffettBBC Breakfast reporter
"You play against an entire building and it's something that never gets old."
Anna Lapwood - the Taylor Swift of classical music, as she is nicknamed - has become one of the the most famous organists in the world.
She's 28, and tonight the whole building in question is the Royal Albert Hall.
It's 02:00 BST and Bach's Toccata and Fuge in D minor echo around the circular walls of the world-famous hall.
A moment strange to practice? Not for Lapwood.
"This is the only time we organists can come in, have the place to ourselves and play this incredible thing to the fullest - because it's really very, very noisy, and you can't disturb people while they're trying to work," she told BBC News.
This "amazing thing" is the Henry Willis organ - once the largest instrument in the world - which was played at the hall's opening ceremony in 1871.
Image source, Nick RutterBy Tim MuffettBBC Breakfast reporter
"You play against an entire building and it's something that never gets old."
Anna Lapwood - the Taylor Swift of classical music, as she is nicknamed - has become one of the the most famous organists in the world.
She's 28, and tonight the whole building in question is the Royal Albert Hall.
It's 02:00 BST and Bach's Toccata and Fuge in D minor echo around the circular walls of the world-famous hall.
A moment strange to practice? Not for Lapwood.
"This is the only time we organists can come in, have the place to ourselves and play this incredible thing to the fullest - because it's really very, very noisy, and you can't disturb people while they're trying to work," she told BBC News.
This "amazing thing" is the Henry Willis organ - once the largest instrument in the world - which was played at the hall's opening ceremony in 1871.
Image source, Nick Rutter
