Organ Music of Philip Glass
6,00 €
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Mark Steinbach, Brown University Organist, will perform the Philip Glass‘ mesmerizing conclusion to the opera Satyagraha (1979).
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Anton Bruckner was one of the greatest organ virtuosos of his time and an outstanding improviser, but he left hardly any original works for the organ. His passion was the symphony, and many themes for it are said to have occurred to him at the organ. What could be more natural than to transfer Bruckner’s grandiose symphonic creations to the organ? Hansjörg Albrecht began in 2020 with the complete recording of all Bruckner symphonies as organ transcriptions, at Bruckner’s places of activity and other original locations.
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This very special film is dedicated to contemporary U.S. composers who, with their different styles, each became groundbreaking in their own right. Music by Philip Glass (*1937) and John Adams (*1947) can be heard – both music is classified as so-called “Minimal Music”. George C. Baker (*1951) who composes in the tradition of the Great American Music. Lastly Hans Zimmer (*1957), who has written the music for countless Hollywood blockbusters. The sound of these four composers, transferred to the organ, has a very special appeal. Especially when such prominent organists sit at the console as here: Paul Jacobs, Roger Sayer, Mark Steinbach and Stephen Tharp!
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Curtain up for Beethoven and Thomas Heywood! In this film, Beethoven’s “Eroica,” Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, receives its world premiere as an organ work. Since 2020 (Beethoven’s 250th birthday), Australian organist Thomas Heywood has been busy transcribing all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies in their entirety for the organ, recording them and presenting them in concert. By 2027 (200th anniversary of his death) he wants to be finished.
Xaver Varnus – Hungary/Canada
6,00 €
The Hungarian concert organist Xaver Varnus has fulfilled every organist’s dream: He bought his own church, equipped with a huge Cassavant organ.
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Xaver Varnus was born in Budapest and studied there at the conservatory.
conservatory there before going to Paris in 1981 to study with Pierre Cochereau the art of improvisation. From 1983 he lived in Canada, became a Canadian citizen and president of the Canadian Organ Society. Since 1989 as a freelance concert organist. Most recently, he caused a sensation with the purchase of a in the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia and an organ for practising purposes! Varnus has done a great deal for the dissemination of organ music, among other things with music broadcasts for Hungarian television and his own Youtube channel, whose videos are viewed millions of times.
