The penultimate concert within the Malta International Organ Festival will focus on Bach’s masterpieces for the instrument with Heribert Breuer as the main performer.

He will be playing the Praeludium c-moll BWV 546 Choral O Mensch, Bewein dein Sünde Groß BWV 622, the Praeludium d-moll BWV 539 Choral Vater Unser im Himmelreich BWV 737, the Fantasie g-moll BWV 668 Choral Vor deinen Thron Trat Ich Hiemit BWV 668, the Praeludium h-moll BWV 544 Choral Wenn Wir in Höchsten Nöten sein BWV 641, the Fantasie c-moll BWV 537 and the Fuge c-moll BWV 546.

Until 2010, Breuer was professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin where he taught music theory and choral conducting. He is the founder and director of the Berliner Bach Akademie and has arranged music by Bach, Mozart and the Romantics. He has also created a vast repertoire of adaptations for different instrumentations with the most popular being Schubert’s Arpeggione-Sonate for violoncello and wind quintet and Bach’s The Art of Fugue for four quartets.

Breuer’s versions are inspired arrangements, often supplemented by more voices. His version of the last Contrapunctus of The Art of Fugue was performed at the opening of the Bach-Festival Leipzig in the Thomaskirche.

He has toured all over Europe, the US and Latin America both as an organist and conductor. Breuer won the Bavarian National Award as conductor.

 

■ The concert is being held today at St Augustine parish church in Valletta at 8pm. Entrance is free. The festival’s last concert is this Friday and will be covered in this space. Full programme details can be obtained from www.MaltaInternationalOrganFestival.com.

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