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.
To close the event, the audience will hear a concert by an impressively multifaceted Belgian musician. Bernard Foccroulle (1953) is not only an organist, conductor and composer, he also directed the La Monnaie opera house in Brussels in the 1990s. His performance and also the 2025 Bach24 series will close with an extract from The Musical Offering, the Six-part Ricercar, which embodies the high complexity of Bach’s compositions.

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Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 547

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An Wasserflüssen Babylon, BWV 653

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Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659

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Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland (Trio), BWV 660

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Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland, BWV 661

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Prelude in E-flat major, BWV 552

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Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’ (Trio), BWV 676

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Dies sind die heil’gen zehn Gebot’, BWV 678

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Wir glauben all’ an einen Gott, BWV 680

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Vater unser im Himmelreich, BWV 682

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Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam, BWV 684

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Fugue in E-flat major, BWV 552

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Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 665

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Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist, BWV 667

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Vor deinen Thron tret’ ich, BWV 668

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Six-part Ricercar from "The Musical Offering", BWV 1079


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