Schedule

An Easter Symphony

Charles-Marie Widor | 1844 – 1937
Symphony No. 10 „Romane“ op. 73
on the Gregorian (Plainsong) Graduel “Haec Dies”
• I. Moderato
• II. Choral. Adagio
• III. Cantilène. Lento
• IV. Final. Allegro

Easter Lunch Concert

Hermann Schroeder | 1685 – 1750
Prelude and Fugue on "Christ lag
in Todesbanden"

John Hyatt Brewer | 1856 - 1931
An April Song

Gereon Krahforst | * 1973
Chorale Preludes
• Bleib bei uns, Herr
• Gelobt sei Gott im höchsten Thron CO
  (Menutt im Stil von Haydn)
• Die ganze Welt, Herr Jesu Christ

Barry Ferguson | * 1942
Toccata for Joy

Petr Eben | 1929 - 2007
From "Sunday Music" (1958)
• Fantasia I

Johann Ernst Rembt | 1749 - 1810 | [CO]
Trio in D Major

Ludwig Ebner | 1858 - 1903 | [CO]
Trio in E Flat Major

Petr Eben
From "Sunday Music" 
• Fantasia II

Johann Sebastian Bach
Chorale Prelude on "Dies sind
die heil´gen zehen Gebot´" BWV 678

Petr Eben
From "Sunday Music" 
• Moto ostinato

Johann Gottfried Vierling | 1750 - 1813 | [CO]
Trio in A Major | [CO]

Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685 - 1750
Chorale Prelude on "Wir gläuben
all´ an einen Gott" BWV 680

Petr Eben
From "Sunday Music" 
• Finale

Variations and hymns for Eastertide

Gereon Krahforst | * 1973
Chorale Partita on "Wunderschön Prächtige" (2004)

Hans Buchner | 1483 - 1538  CO
Christ ist erstanden

Hans Leo Haßler | 1562 - 1612  CO
Wach auf, mein Herz, die Nacht ist hin

Flor Peeters | 1903 - 1986
Toccata, Fugue and Hymne on "Ave Maris Stella" op. 28

Easter Sonata and Marian Variations

Johann Joseph Veith | 1872 – 1947
Organ Sonata on the Gregorian (Plainsong)
Easter hymn tune „Ad Regias Agni Dapes“
▪ I. Festival Prelude
▪ II. Andante con moto
▪ III. Scherzo
▪ IV. Triple Fugue

Gereon Krahforst | * 1973
Chorale Partita on "Maria, Dich lieben" (2004)

Best loved Classical Melodies
arranged for organ by Gereon Krahforst

Wolfgang A. Mozart | 1756 - 1791
From "The Marriage of Figaro" KV 492
• Overture

Jules Massenet | 1842 - 1912
Méditation "Thaïs"

Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685 - 1750
From Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major BWV 1068
• Gavotte

Franz Schubert | 1797 - 1828
Ave Maria

Paul Linke | 1866 - 1946
From the operetta "Lysistrata"
• Firefly Idyll

George Frideric Handel | 1685 - 1759
From "Water Music"
• Hornpipe

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 1840–1893
From "The Nutcracker"
• The Sugar Plum Fairy

Jacques Offenbach | 1819–1880
From "Orpheus in the Underworld"
• Infernal Galop (Can-Can)

Wolfgang A. Mozart
From "The Magic Flute," K. 620
• The Birdcatcher

Craig C. Lang | 1891–1971
Tuba Tune, Op. 15

Anton Dvořák | 1841–1904
Humoresque

Edward Elgar | 1857–1934
Pomp and Circumstance
Feedback geben

"Musica britannica"

From “Fitzwilliam Virginal Book II”
• CXVI Praeludium in F (William Byrd (1540 – 1623))

From “English Court and Country Dances”
• Variations on “A Pavion Solus com Sola”

From “Tisdales Virginal Book”
Newman´s Pavan
• Paul´s Wharf

From “Fitzwilliam Virginal Book I”
• IX. Variations on “Go from my window” (Thomas Morley (1557-1602))
• XII. Variations on “Nancy” (Thomas Morley)

Thomas Tomkins | 1572 - 1656
Voluntary in d

From “Fitzwilliam Virginal Book I”
XIV. Alman (anonymous)
• LXIV. Variations on “Sellinger´s Round” (William Byrd)

Christopher Gibbons | 1615 – 1676
A Verse for the organ in F

From “Fitzwilliam Virginal Book II”
• CXX. Praeludium in G
• CXXIV Fantasia in a (Thomas Morley)
• CXXVII Variations on “Put up my dagger, Jemy” (Giles Farnaby (1560 – 1640))

From “Matchett´s Virginal Book”
• Variations on “The Frogge” (John Dowland (1563 – 1626))

From “Fitzwilliam Virginal Book II”
• CXXXI Variations on “Barafrostus Dreame” (Thomas Tomkins)

William Hine | 1687 – 1720
Flute Piece

From “Fitzwilliam Virginal Book II”
•CCLI Variations on “The Leaves bee greene” (William Inglot (1553 – 1621))

Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685 - 1750
Goldberg Variations BWV 988

International Easter Music

Jeanne Demessieux | 1921 - 1968
Repons pour le temps de Pâques

William Faulkes | 1863 - 1933
Spring Song

Anonymus | South Germyn 18th century
Chorale Prelude on "Freu Dich, Du werte Christenheit"

Dale Wood | 1934 - 2003
That Easter Day with Joy was bright

Charles Tournemire | 1870 - 1939
Chorale Improvisation on Victimae Paschali Laudes

Scotson Clark | 1840 - 1883
Festal March

Johann Ludwig Krebs | 1713 - 1780
Trio in E Flat Major
• Adagio
• Non molto allegro

Klaus Uwe Ludwig | * 1943
Die helle Sonn´ leucht´ jetzt herfuer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 1756 - 1791
Variations on an original theme in F Major KV 54

Denis Bédard | * 1950
Suite du Premier Ton (1993)
• Plein Jeu
• Dialogue
• Récit
• Grand Jeu

Keith Jarrett | * 1945
Improvisation on "Over the Rainbow"

Ludwig van Beethoven | 1770 - 1827
Variations on an Aria by Paisiello
"Nel cor piu non mi sento" G-Dur WoO. 70

Paul Lincke | 1866 – 1946
From operetta “Lysistrata”
• Idyll of the fireflies

Nigel Ogden | 1954 - 2026
From "Art Deco Suite"
• Rizzy

Improvisation
Spring March

Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685 - 1750
Goldberg Variations BWV 988

Sigfrid Karg-Elert | 1877 – 1933
Sunrise

Edvard Grieg | 1843 – 1907
From “Peer Gynt-Suite No. 1” op. 46
• Morning mood

Gereon Krahforst | * 1973
Space Tunes – 5 Cosmic, spheric Preludes
▪ Troposphere
▪ Stratosphere
▪ Mesosphere
▪ Thermosphere
▪ Exosphere

Bob Chilcott | * 1955
Sun Dance

Flor Peeters | 1902 – 1986
“Lied-Symphony” op. 66
• Lied to the Ocean 
• Lied to the Mountains 
• Lied to the Flowers 
• Lied to the Desert 
• Lied to the Sun 

Ad Wammes | * 1952
Miroirs

Improvisation on a volcano eruption in Maria Laach
• Silent landscape in Eifel region
• Crawling under earth
• The Eruption which generatet the Caldera, today´s Lake of Maria Laach

Edwin Lemare | 1865 - 1934
"Carmen Fantasia" on themes by Georges Bizet

Keith Jarrett | * 1945
Improvisation on "Over the Rainbow"
arr. for organ by Gereon Krahforst

Sigfrid Karg-Elert | 1877 – 1933
Rondo alla campanella op. 156

Paul Lincke | 1866 – 1946
From Operetta “Lysistrata”
• Gavotte (Idyll) of the fireflies
arr. for organ by Gereon Krahforst

Frank Bridge | 1879 – 1941
Adagio in E Major

Ad Wammes | * 1953
Miroir

Marcel Dupré | 1886 – 1971
From 2^nd Organ Symphony in C Sharp Major op. 26
• III. Toccata

Improvisation I
Theme and Variations on an Icelandic
folk tune given by Bjoern Steinar

Improvisation II
A volcano eruption on Iceland
• Silence in the Icelandic mountains
• more and more crawling
• Eruption

Program: "Against the Current"

Upstream on the Rhine, against the current

Kevelaer

After Altötting, the second most important Marian pilgrimage site in Germany
Improvisation
Overture in the Romantic style on
"Rejoice, Queen of Heaven"

Düsseldorf

Clemens Ingenhoven | 1685 – 1750
Professor at the Düsseldorf Academy of Music
Partita "Three Roses Are Blooming"

Cologne

Hermann Schroeder | 1904 - 1984
Professor at the Cologne Academy of Music
Prelude and Fugue on "Christ Lay in Death's Bonds"

Bonn

Johann Joseph Veith | 1872 – 1947
Organist and Cantor at Bonn Minster
From the Organ Sonata on the Easter
Hymn “Ad Regias Agni Dapes”
• IV. Triple Fugue

Boppard

Peter Piel | 1835 - 1904
Organist at St. Severus, Boppard
• Trio in B-flat major
• Largo in D major

Upstream on the Moselle, against the current

Trier

Ludwig Boslet | 1860 - 1951
Former Cathedral Organist in Trier
From Organ Sonata No. 5 in D major, Op. 30
• I. Allegro

Luxembourg

Paul Benoït OSB Cathedral | 1893 - 1979
Priest-monk and organist of the Benedictine Abbey
St. Mauritius and Maurus in Clervaux/Luxembourg
Pascale Cantilène

Metz
largest cathedral of the "Grand Est" (region in eastern France)
Improvisation
Final français

The performer of this organ recital was inspired by the motto "against the current" to explore four ideas: upstream along major German rivers, the Rhine and the Moselle (Boppard is located near Koblenz and the "Deutsches Eck," where the Moselle flows into the Rhine; from there, the program continues upstream along the Moselle); then: "against the current" in the form of little-known or completely unknown composers for organ (no Buxtehude, Bach, Mendelssohn, Reger, Widor, etc.); and finally: "against the current" through "staunchly Catholic" composers and, in part, themes (Marian hymns) within a Protestant context. St. Mary's Church. Kevelaer on the Lower Rhine, not far from the Dutch border, and Metz in France on the Moselle form the geographical cornerstones and are musically represented "against the current" of existing compositions through improvisations.

„Von den Engeln“

Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685 – 1750
Sinfonia from Cantata BWV 29
„Wir danken Dir, Gott, wir danken Dir“
arr. for organ by Alexandre Guilmant

Olivier Messiaen | 1908 – 1992
The Angels (from "La Nativité")

Sigfrid Karg-Elert | 1877 – 1933
From „3 Impressions“ op. 72
• Harmonies du Soir

Hans Friedrich Micheelsen | 1902 – 1973
Organ Concert No. 2 op. 34 on the tune „Es sungen drei Engel“
• I. Tokkata
• II. Kanzona
• III. Fuga

Edwin Lemare | 1865 – 1934
Chant séraphique

Paul Hindemith | 1895 - 1963
From 3rd Organ Sonata on old German folk tunes
• III. "So wuensch ich Dir"

Charles Tournemire | 1870 – 1939
From „Sei fioretti“ op. 60
• St. Francis and the Angel with the Violin

Johann Sebastian Bach
Trio „Allein Gott in der Hoeh´ sei Ehr´“ BWV 664

Frank Bridge| 1879 – 1941
Adagio in E Major

Alexander Moseler | * 1981
The Guardian Angel op. 76

Improvisation
The Archangel Gabriel, Maria and her Magnificat

Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685 – 1750
Sinfonia to the cantata „Wir danken Dir, Gott, wir danken Dir“ BWV 29
arr. for organ by Marcel Dupré

René Louis Becker | 1882 - 1956 | [CO]
Rêve des Anges (Traum der Engel)

David Ouchterlony | 1914 - 1987
Trumpet Tune

Paul Hindemith | 1895 - 1963
Third Organ Sonata on ancient German
Folk tunes
• I. "Ach Gott, wem soll ich´s klagen"
• II. "Wach auf, mein Herz"
• III. "So wuensch´ ich Dir"

Marcel Dupré | 1886 - 1971
Organ Symphony No. 2 in C Sharp Major op. 26
• I. Preludio
• II. Intermezzo
• III. Toccata

"Musica iberica"

Anonym | 17. Jhdt.
Entrada de Clarines

José Elías | 1675 – 1749
Tocata de Contras 5^o tono

Francisco Correa de Arauxo | 1584 – 1654
Aus „Facultad orgánica“
Tiento XV de 4^o tono, la, y mi, por elami

Joaquín Martinez Ojinaga | 1719 - 1789
Paso sobre el 8^o tono

Juan Moreno y Polo | 1711 - 1776
Tres Versillos de 4^o tono

Sebastián Aguilera de Heredía | 1562 – 1627
Tiento de dos bajos de 8^o tono

Juan Cabanilles | 1644 – 1712
Pedazo de música 5^o tono

Padre Antonio Soler | 1729 – 1783
Intento para Ofertorio ó Final

Antonio de Cabezón | 1510 – 1566
Diferencias sobre un tema en re

Tomás de Santa Maria | 1510 - 1570
Fantasia Septimi Toni

Pablo Bruna | 1611 - 1679
Tiento lleno de 5^o tono