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Fantastic Feats - St Paul's Cathedral Organ Concert
Bine Bryndorf
Part of the St Paul's Cathedral Fantastic Feats Organ Festival 2019
Add to my Calendar 02-05-2019 18:30 02-05-2019 20:30 36 Fantastic Feats - St Paul's Cathedral Organ Concert 7246 pipes ranging in size from 10 metres to the size of a small pencil, all controlled from a console of five keyboards, a pedalboard and over a hundred pistons: the organ of St Paul’s Cathedral has always been a fantastic feat of engineering and one of the world’s most spectacular technological marvels. But it is in music that it becomes truly alive and transcendent. The dexterous digits and fantastic feet of one of the world’s organ-playing masters put the great machine through its paces, performing music spanning five centuries. St Paul's Cathedral, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Paul's Cathedral
St Paul's Churchyard
City of London
London
EC4M 8AD
England
Programme
Niels la Cour – Vesper Organi
Franz Tunder – Christ lag in Todesbanden
Dietrich Buxtehude – Mit Fried und Freud, BuxWV 76
Michael Praetorius – Summo parenti gloria
Johann Sebastian Bach – Nun Komm die Heiden Heiland (chorale prelude), BMV 659
Performers
Bine Bryndorf – organ
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Programme Note
7246 pipes ranging in size from 10 metres to the size of a small pencil, all controlled from a console of five keyboards, a pedalboard and over a hundred pistons: the organ of St Paul’s Cathedral has always been a fantastic feat of engineering and one of the world’s most spectacular technological marvels. But it is in music that it becomes truly alive and transcendent.
The dexterous digits and fantastic feet of one of the world’s organ-playing masters put the great machine through its paces, performing music spanning five centuries.
