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Organ masterpieces for the liturgical year: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost. Featuring works by Bach, Bedard, Buxtehude, Durufle, Germain, Guilmant, Widor, and Vierne. This is the second part of a two-part concert, in conjunction with Pacific Spirit United Church, where Marc D’Anjou will perform on Sunday, November 4 at 3 pm. Performance visible on a giant screen at the front of the Cathedral.
Programme:
Diderik Buxtehude: Prelude, Fugue and Ciacona in C BuxWV 137
Advent:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale prelude: “Nun Komm’ der Heiden Heiland” BWV 659
Roland Germain: Toccata sur ‘Venez divin Messie’
Christmas:
Denis Bédard: Deux Noels
Johann Sebastian Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582
Charles Marie Widor: Final (2nd Symphony, Op. 13 No. 2)
Lent:
Denis Bedard: Variations sur ” Herzlich tut mich verlangen”
Easter:
Denis Bedard: Choral sur “O filii et filiae”
Alexandre Guilmant: Offertoire sur “O filii”
Pentecost:
Diderik Buxtehude: Chorale prelude: “Komm, Heiliger Geist” BuxWV 199
Maurice Duruflé: Choral varie sur le theme du“Veni Creator” Op. 4
Louis Vierne: Final (1st Symphony, Op. 14)
Marc D’Anjou has been principal organist of the Quebec City Cathedral Basilica since 1993, except for two years (2010 – 2012) as music director at South Burnaby United Church, and music director at the Cathedral-Basilica since 2015. Having won the national organ finals in the junior category of the Baldwin Competition in Toronto in 1980, he graduated from the Rimouski Conservatory of Music with first class honours in 1986 and continued his studies in Paris. He has given many concerts in Canada and abroad, including more than a dozen organ inaugurations, and has participated in several improvisation matches in Quebec and in France. In 2009 he toured Ecuador, giving five concerts. He has recorded for the CBC’s French network, including the first ever radio recording of the works of Édouard Commette, works which he recorded on CD in 1997.