Name: James McVinnie: Bach, Buxtehude & Pachelbel
Start: 2024-03-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-03-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: South Bank Centre

Organization

Admin

Southbank Centre

Instrumentalist

Organist

James McVinnie

Keyboard (Organ)

Organ

Singer

James McVinnie: Bach, Buxtehude & Pachelbel

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

James McVinnie: Bach, Buxtehude & Pachelbel: Tant que vivray Sermisy (+5 More)

Public

Trente et sept chansons musicales a quatre parties

Puer nobis nascitur, SwWV.315

Chaconne in D minor, P.41

Vater unser im Himmelreich, IGB 24

Prelude in F-sharp minor, BuxWV 146

Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548

Approved

South Bank Centre

The organ is often called ‘the king of instruments’, and Bach was born into, and indelibly influenced by, a long-established tradition of organ composition in 17th-century Germany.

This performance offers a journey into these fascinating musical riches, with works by Sweelinck, Böhm, Pachelbel and Buxtehude, culminating in Bach’s great Prelude & Fugue in E minor.

James McVinnie starts his Artist Residency with this lunchtime programme that he put together with the special sound qualities and design of the Royal Festival Hall organ in mind.

Designed and inaugurated almost exactly 70 years ago in March 1954 by Ralph Downes, the Royal Festival Hall organ caused a sensation in the musical community of the day with its striking tonal design and return to classical pipe organ building principles – ones which allow this music to shine.

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )