The big evening concert: "Max Reger - a musician's life from the beginning to the end"

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
"Max Reger - a musician's life from the beginning to the end"
Klaus Mertens - Baritone
Denny Wilke - Organ
Axel Thielmann - Moderation
Merseburg Cathedral Choir
Chamber choir of Schlosskapelle Saalfeld
State Opera Halle
Cathedral Cantor Stefan Mücksch - Conductor

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

Program

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Prelude to Parsifal

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fantasy and fugue g - Minor BWV 542 in an orchestral version

Max Reger (1873 - 1916)
Fantasy and Fugue in C minor op. 29 for organ solo (1898)

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Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Preludio to the bells of Strasbourg Cathedral

Franz Liszt
The bells of Strasbourg Cathedral

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
From: "A German Requiem" op. 45
No. 4 "How lovely are your dwellings"

Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria "O man weep for your great sin" BWV 622
in the arrangement for string orchestra by Max Reger (1915)

Max Reger
From: Two songs for mixed choir with orchestra op. 144
The Hermit (Joseph von Eichendorff, 1788-1857) for baritone, choir and orchestra