Thomas Trotter, organ
Bach / MacMillan / Wagner
He is a globetrotter among organists: Thomas Trotter gives recitals all over the world, and in addition he holds positions as organist at London’s Westminster Abbey and in the City of Birmingham, and is a lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, which was founded by Sir Charles Hallé.
With the impressive sonata by Edward Elgar, the programme of Trotter’s guest appearance at the Elbphilharmonie reflects the great tradition of Romantic British organ music; but also features an enthralling modern composition in the shape of James MacMillan’s gripping tribute to the French painter Georges Rouault. This is at least as picturesque and multi-faceted as Rouault’s own work.
The German organ tradition is not neglected either: outstanding examples are J.S. Bach’s theatrical e minor prelude, a sonata by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Edwin Henry Lemare’s arrangement of the overture to Richard Wagner’s opera »Rienzi«.
Performers
Thomas Trotter organ
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach
Präludium und Fuge e-Moll BWV 548
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Fuge über B-A-C-H
Orgelsonate F-Dur / aus: Sieben Orgelsonaten Wq 70
James MacMillan
Le tombeau de Georges Rouault
– Interval –
Richard Wagner
Ouvertüre zu »Rienzi« / Arrangement für Orgel: Edwin Henry Lemare
Edwin Henry Lemare
Rondo capriccio (A Study in Accents) op. 64
Edward Elgar
Orgelsonate G-Dur op. 28
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Moritz Moszkowski
Serenata op. 15/1
Edward Elgar
Land of Hope and Glory / aus: Pomp and Circumstance Marches op. 39
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