What’s New
Current composing / arranging activities
Orchestration of another psalm (original for choir and organ) for choir and large orchestra in Hebrew language.
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Liturgical organ music in the Minster of Maria Laach
Sunday, June 25, 2017
12th Sunday of Ordinary Time
9:00 AM Convent´s High Mass and 11:00 AM Mass
Postlude:
Arthur Letondal | 1869 - 1956
Toccata
5:30 PM Vespers:
Postlude:
Domingo Mas y Sarracant | 1870 - 1944
Ofertorio sinfonico
Monday, June 5, 2017
Pentecost Monday
9:00 AM Convent's High Mass and 11:00 AM Mass
Postlude:
Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685 - 1750
Fantasia on "Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott" BWV 651
5:30 PM Uhr Vespers
Postlude:
Nicolas de Grigny | 1672 - 1703
Veni Creator (Plein Chant en Taille)
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Next events
2017 Jun 24, 12:00 pm: Noon concert
Maria Laach, Abbey church, Stahlhuth organ
Website of Maria Laach´s organ concert series (only German)
Organ Music for the Solemnity of St. John the Baptist
Johann Ludwig Krebs | 1713 – 1780
Fantasia a gusto italiano
Flor Peeters | 1903 – 1986
Ut queant laxis (from 10 Chorale Preludes on Gregorian Hymns op. 76)
(Vesper hymn of the Solemnity of St. John the Baptist)
Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685 – 1750
Chorale Prelude on “Christ, unser Herr zum Jordan kam” BWV 684 und 685
Marcel Dupré | 1886 – 1971
Ut queant laxis (from “Le Tombeau de Titelouze”)
Domingo Mas y Serracant | 1870 - 1944
Ofertorio sinfonico
Arthur Letondal | 1869 – 1956
Toccata
Gereon Krahforst, organ
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2017 Jul 01, 12:00 pm: Noon concert
Maria Laach, Abbey church, Stahlhuth organ
Website of Maria Laach´s organ concert series (only German)
Highlights
Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685 – 1750
▪ Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565
from Cantata „Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben“ BWV 147:
▪ „Jesu meine Freude“
César Franck | 1822 – 1890
Choral Nr. 2 in B Minor
Johann Sebastian Bach
From Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major BWV 1068:
▪ Air (arr. for organ by S. N. Pennfield)
Charles-Marie Widor | 1844 – 1937
Toccata from 5th Organ Symphony in F Minor op. 42/1
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2017 Jul 04, 07:30 pm: Organ concert
Unna, St. Catherine church
Sigfrid Karg-Elert | 1877 – 1933
Rondo alla campanella op. 156
Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685 – 1750
Chorale Preludes on hymn tunes by Martin Luther for the 500th anniversary of Reformation
▪ Dies sind die heil´gen zehen Gebot´ BWV 678
▪ Vater unser im Himmelreich BWV 682
Gilbert M. Martin | * 1941
A Festive Trumpet Tune
Eustache du Caurroy | 1549 – 1609
Variations on „Une jeune Fillette“
C. Hubert Parry | 1848 – 1918
Chorale Prelude on „Rockingham“
Domenico Scarlatti | 1685 – 1757
Sonata in A K 322
Michael Thorn | * 1950
Blues
Georg Friedrich Händel | 1685 – 1759
Aria „Meine Seele hört im Sehen“ from „Neun Deutsche Arien“
Arr. for organ 2013 by Gereon Krahforst
Gereon Krahforst | * 1973
Improvisation
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