Early Music Vancouver: The Well-Tempered Organ!

The “well” temperaments of Bach’s day were tuning systems carefully designed to let keyboardists play in every key without re-tuning their instruments. Inspired by Bach’s famous Well-Tempered Clavier and Anna Magdalena Bach, Alexander Weimann has assembled a new collection of pieces spanning the whole harmonic spectrum for this special concert as part of Early Music Vancouver’s WOMENinSIGHT festival.

Alexander Weimann was born in Munich, where he studied the organ, church music, musicology (with a summa con laude thesis on Bach’s secco recitatives), theatre, mediæval Latin, and jazz piano. He serves as Music Director of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra in Vancouver, Music Director of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, and regular guest conductor of ensembles including Arion Baroque Orchestra in Montreal and the Portland Baroque Orchestra.

Watch the link to learn more at https://youtu.be/2QS8Mr5AIAI. The full programme and tickets are available at https://www.earlymusic.bc.ca/events/the-well-tempered-organ/. When purchasing tickets, use the code ORGAN20 to get 20% off.

PROGRAMME

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Pièce d’Orgue in G major, BWV 572

Fantasia in C minor, BWV 1121

Aria in F major (“after Couperin”), BWV 587

Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 649

O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross, BWV 622

Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639

Toccata and Fugue in E major BWV 566

Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’, BWV 662

Fugue in B minor (“on a Theme of Corelli”), BWV 579

Vater unser in Himmelreich, BWV 682

Praeludium in A minor, BWV 569

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

Fugue in G major, BWV 577