St. Florianer Brucknertage: X. International Organ Night

At the X. International Organ Night we will hear organists from all over Europe.

The Organ Night is also celebrating an anniversary at the Bruckner Festival, as it is now taking place for the tenth time in a row. This year's special programme fits in with this. With Michael Floredo's Organ Symphony for three organists and conductors on one organ, which was premiered here in St. Florian 13 years ago, we would like to repeat a special programme item that caused an enthusiastic stir at the time. The Vorarlberg composer has already written several compositions for the monastery and the Bruckner Festival, and in his organ symphony he traces the large areas in Bruckner's symphonies. The video transmission into the church space makes it a fascinating experience to watch the three organists playing with and on top of each other. The new CD by Austrian opera star Günther Groissböck with Matthias Giesen on the organ will also be presented. Groissböck focuses on the sacred music of Anton Bruckner, as well as works by Brahms, Fr. Schmidt, J. Haydn and others. The concert night will be framed by two famous organists from Italy and England: Giulia Biagetti plays music from the Bach period, Peter King ends the organ night with a firework display of organ transcriptions, the last of which is the jazzy "Voices of the world".

19.30 hrs Giulia Biagetti, Lucca/I "Rings around Bach"
Christian Friedrich Witt (1660-1717)
Passacaglia in D minor
Choral prelude "Jesu Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn"
Johann Peter Kellner (1705-1772)
Preludium and Fugue in D
Johann Schneider (1702-1788)
Trio on "Mein Gott das Herze bring' ich dir"
Preludium and Fugue in G major
Johann Gottfried Walther (1684-1748)
Partite on "Meine Jesum lass ich nicht"
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Toccata and Fugue in D minor ("The Dorian") BWV 538
Ernst Friedrich Richter (1808-1879)
Trio on "Jesu, my joy"
Fantasia, Adagio, Fuga op. 19

20.15 hrs Michael Floredo: Symphony No. 3 for three organists on one organ "6 hands/6 feet"
Sergej Tcherepanov, Benjamin Guélat, Sebastian Trinkl
Conductor: Matthias Giesen
Submission Programme 2023
22.00 h Presentation of the new CD "In te Domine speravi"
with Günther Groissböck and Matthias Giesen (Gramola)
Excerpts from the programme of the new CD
Moderation: Richard Winter
Works by A. Bruckner, J. Brahms, Fr. Schmidt and others.
22.45 h Peter King, Exeter/GB "Music from England"
William Byrd (1543-1623): Galliard III
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924): Postlude in D minor
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847): Prelude and Fugue in E minor op. 35/1
(trans. by W. T. Best)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764): "Entrée de Polymnie" (from the ballet "Les Boréades"), (trans. by Peter King)
Iain Farrington (*1977): "Voices of the World" (2023)