Organ Concert with Jean-Christopher Geiser.
Jean-Christophe Geiser’s musical career has been remarkably rapid. At the age of just 26, in 1991, he was appointed principal organist at Lausanne Cathedral and, by 1993, he was already a professor at the Lausanne Conservatoire and University of Music, where he also headed the organ department. Jean-Christophe Geiser is one of Switzerland’s leading musicians on the international scene.
Programme:
Samuel Scheidt 1587–1654. -Echo ad manuale duplex forte et lene
Georg Muffat 1653–1704 -Passacaglia (from the Apparatus musico-organisticus)
Johann Sebastian BACH 1685–1750 -Organ Concerto in A minor, BWV 593 (Based on Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Violins and Strings, Op. 3 No. 8, ‘Estro armonico’)
I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Allegro Chorale ‘Erbarm Dich mein, O Herre Gott’, BWV 721 .Passacaglia and thema fugatum, BWV 582