Featuring both the Loening-Hancock and Miller-Scott organs, Assistant Organist, Nicholas Quardokus, performs music from the German tradition. Quardokus pays homage to the centuries-old organ chorale heritage from Bach to Distler and Buxtehude to Reger, juxtaposing masterworks from the Baroque, late-Romantic, and Neoclassical eras. The program, framed by Bach’s monumental partita on Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig and Reger’s thunderous fantasia on Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn, promises to be a kaleidoscopic exploration of both world-class organs at Saint Thomas Church.
Program
Partite diverse sopra “Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig”, BWV 768 – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Partita “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland”, Op. 8, no. 1 – Hugo Distler (1908-1942)
Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein, BuxWV 210 – Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637-1707)
Fantasie über den Choral “Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn”, Op. 40, no. 2 – Max Reger (1873-1916)
Performer
Nicholas Quardokus, The Loening-Hancock & Miller-Scott Organs
