Organ Concert: Christian Schmitt, Manuel Mischel, Philippe Stier

Joyful trio playing: our house organist Christian Schmitt performs his concert together with our solo trumpeter Manuel Mischel and our solo trombonist Philippe Stier. The sonata by Venetian composer Dario Castello, born in 1602, displays an astonishing range of emotions. In Widor’s Organ Symphony from 1878, a choral-like theme is accompanied by a wide range of registers, creating an ingenious feast of sound. Berio’s »Sequenza« from 1966 explicitly prescribes elements of theatrical performance, including conscious breathing and use of the voice. The two organ movements, which were not published until after Mendelssohn’s death, were combined into a sonata with a new instrumentation in 1993 – and are a compelling musical experiment. The same applies to the fascinating concerto by English Baroque master John Baston, which was originally written for recorder and strings. With his magnificent Fantasia, Scottish composer John Glenesk Mortimer, born in 1951, created an atmospheric piece for trombone and organ. A traditional pastoral hymn was the inspiration for the most popular work by the Swede Oskar Frederik Lindberg in 1936. The opening movement of Camillo Schumann’s sonata, composed in 1906, impresses with its late Romantic indulgence. The famous Ricercar forms the crowning finale: Frederick the Great presented Bach with a tricky theme, which he turned into a grandiose fugue in 1747 as the high point of his »Musikalisches Opfer« (Musical Offering) – a piece that, in the combination of instruments in this concert, makes for an exciting interplay of timbres.

Tickets: from 25.08.2025 10 a.m.