The big evening concert: "BACH - the beginning and end of all music" I

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.

The big evening concert
"BACH - the beginning and end of all music" I
Veronika Winter - Soprano
David Erler - Altus
Hans Jörg Mammel - Tenor
Matthias Vieweg - Bass
Rhenish Choir
The little concert
Hermann Max - Management

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

Program

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Suite in B minor for orchestra BWV 1067 (1738/39, Cafe Zimmermann)
for transverse flute, strings and basso continuo

Christ lay in the bonds of death BWV 4
for four voices, strings and basso continuo

From: The Art of Fugue BWV 1080
Contrapunctus I

"Who only lets the good Lord rule" BWV 93
Cantata for the 5th Sunday after Trinity
for four voices, two oboes, strings and basso continuo

From: The Art of Fugue BWV 1080
Contrapunctus 14 (incomplete)

Choral arrangement " Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit" BWV 668
for organ solo