Concert "My soul is silent to God"

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.

Concert in the city church of Merseburg
"My soul is silent to God" - From the sacred song oeuvre of Max Reger
Luciano Lodi - Baritone
On the Gerhardt organ: Ulfert Smidt, organist at the Stadtkirche in Hanover
Cathedral preacher Bernhard Halver - Reading

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

Program

Max Reger (1873 - 1916)
From: Twelve pieces for the organ op. 59
No. 1 Praeludium in E minor

From: Two sacred songs op. 105
No. 2 "My soul is silent to God"

From: Twelve sacred songs op. 137
No. 9 "Just don't let anything take you" (Paul Flemming)
No. 5 "O Lord God, take thou from me" (Anonymus)
No. 2 "Thy will, Lord, be done" (Joseph von Eichendorff)

Karl Hasse (1883 - 1960)
Two songs op. 51
No. 1 "Hinauf" (Adolf Schmitthenner)
No. 2 "O lux beata trinitas" (German by Martin Luther)

Max Reger
From: Twelve pieces for the organ op. 59
No. 6 Fugue in D major

Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957)
Three sacred songs op. 11
No. 1 Psalm "Love is truth" (text by the composer)
No. 2 Psalm 23 "The Lord is my shepherd"
No. 3 Psalm 100 "Shout for joy to the Lord"

Max Reger
Fantasy on the chorale "Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele", op. 30

From: Twelve sacred songs op. 137
No. 7 Funeral hymn "Go now and dig my grave" (Ernst Moritz Arndt)
No. 1 Plea for a blessed death "Wenn mein Stündlein fürhanden ist" (Nikolaus Herman)
No. 4 In the evening "With my God I go to rest" (Anonymus)