Lunchtime concert: „Max Reger and the organ music of the Victorian era“

The Merseburg Organ Festival is taking place for the 53rd time, with the magnificent Ladegast organ in Merseburg Cathedral taking centre stage. From 9 to 17 September 2023, the audience can look forward to numerous concerts with top-class organists. Under the title "AppetitAnReger - Max Reger on his 150th birthday", we will be commemorating the important German composer of the late Romantic period, Max Reger, in 2023.

Noon concert
„Max Reger and the organ music of the Victorian era“
Nicolas Wearne (Great Britain) - Organ

Tickets are available in advance via reservix.de, adticket.com and in the Tourist-Information Merseburg.

Program

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924)
Fantasia and Toccata in D minor, op. 57 (1894, arranged 1917)

Max Reger (1873 - 1916)
From: Twelve Pieces, op. 65 (1902)
No. 9 Kanzone in E flat major

Max Reger
Variations and Fugue on ‘Heil, unserm König, Heil’ (‘Heil dir im Siegerkranz’) WoO IV/7 (1901)

Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848 - 1918)
Chorale Prelude on Eventide (1915)

Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)
Sonata in G, op. 28 (1895) Allegro maestoso - Allegretto - Andante espressivo - Presto (comodo)