45th International Bamboo Organ Fest highlights early Iberian organ music

Belgian organist Bernard Foccroulle will feature the works from the single publication, “Libro de Tientos,” by Spanish composer Francisco Correa de Arauxo , an organist during Spain’s Golden Age. De Arauxo’s music is full of contrasts and is only befitting of the Las Piñas Bamboo Organ, which was constructed over a span of eight years beginning in 1816.

Joining Foccroulle will be the international early music ensemble InAlto, a Belgium-based group of musicians that explores both vocal and instrumental music. The visit of InAlto is made possible by Wallonie-Bruxelles-International. The cornetto is considered one of the most important musical instruments of the 16th and 17th centuries. Made of wood and covered with leather or parchment, it was considered the instrument most capable of imitating the human voice.On Correa’s “Tientos,” Foccroulle says, “Playing… on the historic Bamboo Organ in Las Piñas represents for us a double travel, in time and in space. We very much hope that the audience will be moved by this music as much as we are.

Closing concert will be a memorial for Johann Trummer, priest, theologian and organist, and a great benefactor of the organ culture in the Philippines. Trummer passed away on July 18, 2019.To be held at San Ezekiel Moreno Oratory at the Villar Sipag compound on Feb. 26, the closing program will be solely dedicated to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Salarza will play the “Toccata,” “Adagio” and “Fugue BMV 564.” The opening chorus of the “St.

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