Audience with the Queen

A festival of sound on 4 organ instruments
European organ works of the late Renaissance & Baroque
Organ improvisations on themes given by the audience
Thiemo Janssen, Peter Waldner & Sietze de Vries - organ, organ positives & shelf
Friedemann Seitz - Organ building
No fewer than four organ instruments will be used in this special concert: the large organ of the Mariahilf parish church, an instrument from the Tyrolean organ building dynasty Pirchner, will be supported by two chest organs and a regal. In order to do justice to this keyboard blessing, Mariahilf's titular organist Peter Waldner can count on prominent support. First of all, there is the German organ builder Friedemann Seitz, who, in addition to an original baroque shelf, is also providing a chest organ from his master workshop and is also taking on the role of lime player, i.e. pulling the bellows of the shelf in order to supply the rasping reeds of this very characteristic sounding instrument with air. In addition to Friedemann Seitz, Peter Waldner will be joined by two renowned organists: Dutchman Sietze de Vries, a proven grand master of organ improvisation, will demonstrate his extraordinary improvisational skills on various chorale melodies selected by the audience immediately before the concert, and German organist Thiemo Janssen will not only venture into a large-scale prelude by Dieterich Buxtehude, but will also contribute Bach's Easter chorales. Peter Waldner opens the varied two-part concert evening with the work that for some is pars pro toto for organ music: Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565. Festive Easter delights on the keyboard are guaranteed!