PROGRAMME:

The stylus fantasticus — a free and creative musical language from Northern Europe in the 17th century — brings together virtuosity and spirituality.

Matthias Weckmann, Dieterich Buxtehude, Nicolaus Bruhns, Georg Böhm, Vincent Lübeck and Johann Adam Reincken: improvisation and rigor that would later resonate in Johann Sebastian Bach.

CONCERT III – 1650–1600
Stylus Fantasticus

NORTHERN GERMANY

• 1655 – Nicolaus Bruhns (1697)
  Prae­ludium in E minor

• 1661 – Georg Böhm (1733)
  Partita on the chorale “Ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig”

• 1654 – Vincent Lübeck (1740)
  Prelude and Fugue in F major

THE NETHERLANDS

• 1643 – Johann Adam Reincken (1722)
  Fugue in G

NORTHERN GERMANY

• 1616 – Matthias Weckmann (1674)
  Fantasia in D

• 1637 – Dieterich Buxtehude (1707)
  Fantasia on the chorale “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern” (BuxWV 223)
  Prae­ludium in G minor (BuxWV 163)