Aaron James, organist
Why stay at home when there’s a whole world to explore? In the organ lofts of Europe’s great cathedrals, Baroque keyboard players had unparalleled resources for musical expression, with all the grandeur and drama you could wish for. This program will take us on a musical tour of seventeenth-century Europe, stopping at the great churches of five major cities to hear the resident organists improvising: Seville, Rome, Augsburg, Passau, and Lübeck. The Wolff organ and the space of Christ Church Cathedral provide an ideal instrument and setting for this program, which features some of the gloriously colourful South German music that inspired Helmuth Wolff to build this instrument.
This concert is also part of the Cathedral's 'Year of the Organ' series.
Programme
Francisco Correa de Arauxo (1584–1654)
Tiento de registro entero a cinco de primero tono
Tiento de medio registro de tiple de segundo tono
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643)
Toccata quinta
Bergamasca
Johann Speth (c. 1664–1720)
Toccata prima
Toccata sexta
Georg Muffat (1653-1704)
Toccata undecima
Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707)
Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein