Opera Festiva

It is already a centuries-old tradition that popular masterpieces for choir or orchestra have been transferred to the organ, the queen of instruments. Günter Kaluza has adapted nine popular compositions for the organ for this edition.

Content:

- Adagio and Allegro in F minor K. 594 (Wolfgang A. Mozart | 1756 - 1791)
  Fantasy for an organ work in one o'clock, transcription
- Air from the orchestral suite (Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685 - 1750)
  in Dc.f. in the left hand, transcription
- Rondo from “Abdelazer” (Henry Purcell | 1659 - 1695)
  solemn, transcription
- “Jesu bleibet meine Freude” from Cantata 147 (Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685 - 1750)
   chorale, transcription
- Prelude from “Te Deum laudamus” (Marc-Antoine Charpentier | 1643 - 1704)
   known through the Eurovision TV broadcasts, transcription
- Psalm 19 “The heavens are telling” (Benedetto Marcello | 1686 - 1739)
  known to many, festive, transcription by F. Cl. Theodore Dubois (1837 - 1924)
- Hallelujah from the oratorio “The Messiah” (George Frideric Handel | 1685 - 1759)
  Transcription by F. Cl. Theodore Dubois | 1837 - 1924
- The Glory of God from Nature (Ludwig van Beethoven | 1770 - 1827)
  “Praise the heavens” transcription
- Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary (Prince of Denmark March) (Jeremiah Clarke | 1674 - 1707)
  Transcription