Ten years after the last similar marathon and on occasion of the 340th anniversary of the composer’s birth, Müpa Budapest is once again hosting a 24-hour “Bach shift” from 9 pm on 2 May to 9 pm on 3 May, during the course of which all of Johann Sebastian’s organ works will be performed by musicians young and old, and from Hungary and abroad, on the world-famous instrument in the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall.
It may be considered symbolic that the opening event of the 14-part concert series features Sebastian Heindl (1997), an artist who sang from the age of ten in the choir of St Thomas’s Church in Leipzig, where Bach spent the longest and most important part of his career as Thomaskantor or music director. It is also symbolic that his programme begins with Bach’s best known organ piece, the Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

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Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

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Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’ – chorale variation, BWV 717

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Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’ – chorale variation, BWV 711

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Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’ – chorale variation, BWV 715

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Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 531

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Christ, der du bist der helle Tag – chorale partita, BWV 766

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Concerto in A minor after Antonio Vivaldi, BWV 593

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Herzlich tut mich verlangen – chorale variation, BWV 727

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Erbarm’ dich mein, o Herre Gott – chorale variation, BWV 721

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Christ lag in Todesbanden – chorale variation, BWV 718

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Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend’ – chorale variation, BWV 709

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Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott – chorale variation, BWV 720

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Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier – chorale variation, BWV 731

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Valet will ich dir geben – chorale variation, BWV 736

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Fantasia in G major (Pièce d'orgue), BWV 572


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