Bach, J S: Toccata in D minor, BWV538/1 'Dorian'

In a live concert Bengt Tribukait exposes the two interesting organs at Örgryte New Church, Gothenburg, and their capacities.

The North German baroque organ is a result of a research project at Gothenburg University. It was reconstructed entirely from scratch with old types of tools (also reconstructed) and according to old methods, and has already an international fame.

The other organ was originally used in England but has been imported to Sweden. It is a Victorian organ from about 1870, made by the famous organ-builder Henry Willis.

The concert program contains music from four centuries by (17th c.) Byrd, (18th c.) Vivaldi and Bach, (19th c.) Liszt, (c. 2000) Borisova and Dimitrijev (two young Russian composers, living in Stockholm)

The ensemble writes: “Even having worked together for 20 years, arrangements present us time and again with a very special and exciting task. This is a task with which we repeatedly have to confront ourselves, indeed want to confront ourselves, in our search for interesting repertoire.“

Agnes Luchterhandt and Thiemo Janssen play the world-famous Arp Schnitger organ in St.Ludgeri’s Church in Norden. This husband and wife duo present the marvelously beautiful tone colors of East Friesland’s most magnificent organ, recorded in superb sound, in selections by Bach and his Northern German models Buxtehude and Reinecken.