Concert Diary

Throughout 2012 Anne Page plays all of J.S. Bach's organ works in Cambridge. In the year of the Olympics, this musical marathon will include 23 concerts on 14 organs in Cambridge colleges and churches. The performances are a mix of evening and lunchtime recitals. Proceeds will be shared between the venues and the Cambridge Academy of Organ Studies.

Fantasia and Fugue in C minor

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Chorale Prelude 'Erbarm' dich mein, o Herre Gott', 'Lord have mercy upon us'

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Herzlich Tut Mich Verlangen

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

O Lamm Gottes from 'Orgel-Büchlein'

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Christe, du Lamm Gottes from 'Orgel-Büchlein'

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Christus, der uns selig macht from 'Orgel-Büchlein'

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund from 'Orgel-Büchlein'

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross, from Das Orgelbüchlein

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Wir danken dir from 'Orgel-Büchlein'

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Hilf Gott, dass mir's gelinge from 'Orgel-Büchlein'

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Prelude and Fugue in C minor

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Serenade in C, for String Orchestra

Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No 1 in E flat

Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Symphony No 41 in C, 'Jupiter'

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Wracked by personal crises, Alexander Zemlinsky made a heartfelt cry to God in his setting of the Twenty-Third Psalm. The music moves from trepidation to despair to ecstasy, at once sensitive and majestic. In its glistening bid for the heavenly, it makes a perfect companion to Szymanowski’s Third Symphony, The Song of the Night (a setting of Jalaluddin Rumi’s Sufi poetry). From a vast nocturnal landscape, a human spirit ascends to join with the divine, soaring into the ether. Languorous sensuality radiates through this all-encompassing score, the final statement in a concert that follows two acknowledged masterworks by Mozart and Brahms with two exquisite twentieth-century rarities.

Concert generously supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the Polska Music grant programme

FREE pre-concert event | 6.15pm–6.45pm | Royal Festival Hall
Dr Stephen Downes, Reader in Musicology at the University of Surrey discusses the music of Szymanowski and Zemlinsky.

Symphony No 32 in G

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Psalm 23

Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942)

Symphony No 3, 'The Song of the Night'

Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)