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Von der Seine an die Ems

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Thierry Escaich, Fotocredit Marie Rolland
Thierry Escaich © Marie Rolland
Thu 04 Sep 2025
07:30 PM
Kirche St. Antonius Papenburg
Kirchstraße 12
26871 Papenburg

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25 (concessions 20 %)

Programme:
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Organ Sonata in F minor Op. 65/1
Pierre Cochereau: Scherzo symphonique
Thierry Escaich: III Poèmes, Triptyque improvisé
Igor Stravinsky: »The Firebird« (Auszüge)
Louis Vierne: Méditation aus Pièces en style libre Op. 31

Another distinguished guest from Paris! After Olivier Latry last year, we welcome another titular organist of Notre-Dame cathedral, which celebrated its reopening ceremony on 7 December: Thierry Escaisch. With his appointment in 2024, Paris once again chose an artist who is one of the pre-eminent French musicians of our time, not only as an organist, but also as a composer and improviser. Escaisch combines these three sides of his career for his concert on the instrument in Papenburg, Germany’s largest preserved Weimar Republic organ. As a »mere« interpreter, he draws an arc from Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the father of the Romantic organ sonata, to Louis Vierne, one of his predecessors at Notre-Dame, all the way to Stravinsky’a »Firebird« music. The fact that there is still room for his »III Poèmes« and an improvisiation on a theme suggested by the audience is only natural for Escaisch, who says about his three artistic talents: »Everything is interconnected, one is not possible without the other two«.

Thierry Escaich organ

 

in cooperation with Landkreis Emsland, the Emsländische Sparkassenstiftung and the City of Papenburg

 

Bus Shuttle Departure and Arrival Times

Departure Domsheide: 5 pm
Start of concert: 7:30 pm
Departure venue: ca 8:45 pm
Arrival Domsheide: ca 10:30 pm
Ticket price: € 21
Bus tickets can only be purchased at the Glocke box office (Tel. +49 (0) 421 / 33 66 99, Mon-Fri 12 noon-6 pm, Sat 11 am-2 pm) or in the Musikfest Webshop.

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