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Voysey House,
Barley Mow Passage
London W4 4GF
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8742 3355
USA: 1-800-988-6168
Canada: (647) 382 1644
Australia: 1300 55 95 95
New Zealand: 61-7-3377-0141
Organs of Bach’s Time - Silbermann & Baroque organs in Saxony & Thuringia
- Recitals on the finest Baroque organs to survive, some of them instruments which Bach and Handel knew.
- Accompanied by organist James Johnstone, a Bach specialist, who gives recitals and demonstrations in association with the local organists, and by Tom Abbott, art historian. The organs are located in towns and villages off the beaten track.
- For a maximum of 32 participants, the format of this tour is a hybrid between our own-brand music festivals and our small-group tours.
ITINERARY
DAY 1
fly at c. 9.15am from London Heathrow to Berlin—by coach (c. 3 hours 30 minutes) to Bad Lauchstädt, a charming little town which was a prestigious resort in the 18th century—first of two nights in Bad Lauchstädt.
DAY 2
Pomßen, Naumburg—the village of Pomßen has a church with an organ of the 1660s, a delightful little instrument which is more Renaissance than Baroque, set in a painted wood ensemble of gallery, chest and panelled ceiling—the church of St Wenceslas in Naumburg has a major Hildebrandt organ of 1748—time also for the cathedral with its exceptional 13th-century sculpture—overnight Bad Lauchstädt.
DAY 3
Rötha, Störmthal, Altenburg—visit two small towns outside Leipzig with outstanding organs—in the fine mediaeval church of St George in Rötha there is a Silbermann organ tested in 1721 by Johann Kuhnau, Bach’s predecessor in Leipzig—Störmthal has an organ by Hildebrandt which was inspected and approved by Bach in 1723 and is still in its original condition—the court city of Altenburg is one of the rarely visited jewels of the former DDR, with a hilltop ducal residence featuring mediaeval fortifications, Baroque apartments and a quite remarkable collection of Italian Renaissance paintings— the chapel has a fine organ by Trost of 1739—overnight Freiberg.
DAY 4
Freiberg—Freiberg cathedral is one of the most beautiful of Late Gothic buildings in Germany and has retained an exceptional panoply of furnishings—the organ by Silbermann (1711–1714) is one of the world’s finest instruments; three manuals, 44 stops, largely unaltered—there also is another Silbermann masterpiece (1718–19), brought here from another church—in the afternoon drive out to Frauenstein, where Silbermann spent his childhood, and visit the museum dedicated to him—the beautiful village church at Grosshartmannsdorf feels hardly altered for 300 years and has one of the best surviving Silbermann organs—overnight Freiberg.
DAY 5
Coach to Dresden airport, arriving at London Heathrow at c. 5pm.
DATES & PRICES
from £TBC
3–7 Jul 2013
MZ629
Lecturer TBC
TOUR CONTAINS
TESTIMONIALS
Memorable. I felt privileged to have access to the intimacy of the galleries and proximity to the organs.
R. S., Warwickshire
This seemed to me an excellent demonstration of the qualities of a well-run tour: without MRT’s detailed advance arrangements we should not have been able to get to the small places involved, let alone get to the churches and even less been able to hear the organs.A. H., Oxfordshire
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