Bethel Lutheran Church Fall Organ Recital
- Bethel Lutheran Church - Rochester
- 810 3rd Avenue SE, Rochester, MN 55904 United States
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Bethel Lutheran Concert Organist Mark Rich will present his annual Fall Organ Recital on our 62 rank Wicks organ on Sunday, September 27 at 4:00 PM.
This year, the composers chosen represent a gradual exchange from teacher to student. Tunder taught Buxtehude, who taught Bach, who taught Kellner who taught his son J. C. Kellner. Buxtehude’s Praeludium in F Major represents a new change in the North German Style. Tunder’s chorale prelude should be in G minor according to the hymn tune, but his setting is anything else but minor. Bach’s chorale partita represents his learning and expanding the North German Style with his teacher.
Kellner’s Fantasia is one of the first pieces in organ literature to treat the organ as a symphony featuring different sections of the orchestra. Kellner has included these such as bringing out a solo with the orchestra accompanying, full orchestra, brass section, and woodwind section.
The recital concludes with Charles Marie Widor’s famous Toccata from his Fifth Organ Symphony. The tradition that is preserved, of course, is that of J. S. Bach.