EROI Festival 2010
November 11-14, 2010
Eastman School of Music

Thursday, November 11, Christ Church, 8:00 pm, Festival Opening Concert

The EROI Festival begins in earnest on Thursday, November 11, with a recital by Eastman School organ faculty Hans Davidsson, David Higgs, and William Porter. All three are in demand worldwide as recitalists and lecturers. Their performance features some of the repertoire’s most virtuosic passages for the pedals, played on Christ Church’s unique Craighead-Saunders Organ.

Program

Hans Davidsson

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532

Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780)
Trio for 2 Claviers and Pedal in E-flat major

Johann Gottfried Müthel (1728-1788)
Fantasie in G minor

David Higgs

Johann Sebastian Bach
         Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659
         Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 660
         Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 661

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
         Sechs Stücke in kanonischer Form, Op. 56
              No. 5: Nicht zu schnell (B minor)
              No. 6: Adagio (B major)

William Porter

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
         Prelude and Fugue in G Major, Opus 109, Number 2

Federico Andreoni (b. 1978)
         Image improvisée

Improvisation
         Prelude and Fugue, based upon Johann Sebastian Bach’s
         Pedal-Exercitium (fragment, BWV 598)

David Higgs