Organ matinee
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About the Event
The organ and timpani are among the concert hall’s most powerful instruments. For this unusual concert, Québec-born organist Isabelle Demers joins Vincent Vogel, principal timpanist of the Berliner Philharmoniker, for a programme that includes solo organ arrangements of music from John Williams’ Star Wars and Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite alongside a new work by Oscar Jockel, former conducting fellow at the Karajan-Akademie and assistant to Kirill Petrenko.
Programme
Henry Purcell
Suite from Stage Works (arr. for organ and timpani by Günter Berger)
John Williams
Star Wars, Suite (arr. for organ by Isabelle Demers)
Oscar Jockel
New Work for Organ and Timpani (premiere), commissioned by the Berliner Foundation
Igor Stravinsky
L'Oiseau de feu (The Firebird), Suite (arr. for organ by Isabelle Demers)
Johannes M. Michel
Concerto for Organ and Timpani