Organ Concert
Event
Jonathan Ayerst was a lead organist at St. Benet Fink Church in London and studied historical improvisation techniques in Stuttgart. This programme begins with music by Johann Sebastian Bach and, with a fugue that the master of the German Baroque left incomplete, Ayerst proposes to resume the historical practice by improvising its realisation. After a key work by César Franck, a pivotal name of the Franco-Belgian romantic school, the recital ends with the Czech Leoš Janáček, also an organist and a magnificent improviser. His Glagolitic Mass includes a famous organ solo, which Ayerst completes with a transcript of the breathtaking Intrada that closes the piece.
