Bernard Foccroulle / Organ Concert
Easter at the Elbphilharmonie
Musical meditations
Be that as an organist, conductor and composer, as the director of the Théâtre de La Monnaie in Brussels or as the director of the renowned Festival dʼAix-en-Provence: Bernard Foccroulle champions the ideal in art, always seeking new creative paths and encouraging reflection. The programme he will be presenting in the Elbphilharmonie on Easter Sunday also testifies to this sincere yet unpretentious approach.
Aptly for the holiest day in the church calendar, Foccroulle has put together a three-part programme that, through organ works from the Baroque period to the present, explores humankind’s relationship with nature. After an opening praising the divine light, plants – the living organisms most deeply rooted in the earth – take centre stage in the first part. In the following part, the musical focus turns to the heavens, and then finally to humankind, positioned between heaven and earth – a musical plea for mindfulness in how we treat our world.
Performers
Bernard Foccroulle organ
Programme
»Meditation über die Schönheit der Schöpfung und das Verhalten der Menschen«
Meditation über die Schönheit der Schöpfung und das Verhalten der Menschen
Pacht der Schöpfung
Matthias Weckmann
Vers 1 / aus: O lux beata trinitas
Nicolas de Grigny
Fugue á 5 »A solis ortus cardine« / aus: Premier livre d’orgue
Jean-Louis Florentz
Chant des fleurs / aus: Laudes op. 5
Louis Vierne
Étoile du soir op. 54/3 / aus: Pièces de fantaisie
Olivier Messiaen
Messe de la Pentecôte (Auszüge)
Der Mensch im Herzen der Schöpfung
Heinrich Scheidemann
Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott
Bernard Foccroulle
E più corusco il sole
Johann Sebastian Bach
Passacaglia und Fuge c-Moll BWV 582
Zugabe:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein BWV 641 / Orgel-Büchlein
Festival
Easter at the Elbphilharmonie