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ORGAN CONCERT: Tobias Lindner & Jeremy Joseph
Konzerthalle Bamberg, Joseph-Keilberth-Saal (Bamberg)
"O tell me, who invented this miraculous construction, full of the voices of everything that lives?" Herder asked in his poem "The Organ" – the instrument that "unites the breath of all creation". This concert will see two fascinating performers immerse themselves in the multifaceted universe of organ music: Tobias Lindner, winner of numerous international competitions and professor at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, will open the concert with a work by an unknown master from his Bavarian homeland. The mid-19th century piece "Elevazione" by Padre Davide da Bergamo is a fresh and tuneful celebration of the liturgical elevation of the host. Bach's trio sonata, composed around 1730, features both intricate fugue techniques and sensuous passages. Opera aficionado Giovanni Morandi created his Campanelli Rondo in 1883, an organ piece that contains not a few surprises. The Hungarian composer Dezsö Antalffy-Zsiross thrilled early 20th-century audiences with his spectacular works, and his "Chanson dans la nuit” contains echoes of early jazz. The programme’s second half will be performed by Jeremy Joseph, a South African organist who has won several prestigious awards. He is currently the chapel organist of the Hofburg in Vienna and also teaches as a professor at the University of Vienna. He will start with a highly virtuosic and sonorous Prelude and Fugue by Bach. Mozart wrote the rondo-like Andante for barrel organ, an enchanting music-box piece full of dainty passages in a high treble register, in 1791, the year of his death. Messiaen’s jubilant final movement of his major 1986 composition "Le Livre du Saint-Sacrement" undoubtedly succeeded in achieving this composer’s goal to create a universal dimension of "music that touches all things and God at the same time".