Advent subscription concert

2017 – Süsser als Wein [Sweeter than Wine]

Sunday 3 December 2017, 8 p.m.
Graz Cathedral

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – from Canticum Canticorum: Osculetur me / Trahe me
César Franck – Choral in E major
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Nigra sum / Vineam meam
César Franck – Choral in B minor
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Si ignoras / Pulchrae sunt / Fasciculus myrrae
César Franck – Choral in A minor
Choir: Institute for Church Music and Organ Choir, Domkantorei Graz
Conductor: Josef Doeller
Organ soloists: auditioned students


2016 – Unser lieben Frauen Traum [Our Lady’s Vision]

Sunday 27 November 2016, 8 p.m.
Graz Cathedral

Max Reger (1873-1916), Fugue on BACH from op. 46
Constanze Hochwartner – organ
Max Reger, motet: Und unser lieben Frauen
Max Reger,  Benedictus op. 59
Stjepan Molnar – organ
Max Reger, 2 Marienlieder from op. 61d
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), motet: Tota pulchra es Maria
Sze Wai Ngai – organ
Max Reger, Invocation from Sonata no. 2 op. 60
Jakov Spevec – organ
Anton Bruckner, motets: Virga Jesse, Ave Maria
Max Reger, Fantasie from op. 135b
Stjepan Molnar – organ
Max Reger, 3 Marienlieder from op. 61d
Max Reger, Fugue from op. 135b
Stjepan Molnar – organ
Choir: Institute for Church Music and Organ Choir, Domkantorei Graz
Conductor: Josef Doeller
Continuo: Sze Wai Ngai


2015 – Tröstet mein Volk [Comfort Ye My People]

Sunday 29 November 2015, 8 p.m.
Graz Cathedral

Dieterich Buxtehude: Prelude in A minor BuxWV 153
Luka Gojkošek – organ
Heinrich Schütz:
Tröstet, tröstet mein Volk SWV 382
Ich bin eine rufende Stimme SWV 383
Dieterich Buxtehude: Prelude in E major BuxWV 141
Constanze Hochwartner – organ
Heinrich Schütz:
O lieber Herre Gott SWV 381
Das ist je gewisslich wahr SWV 388
Dieterich Buxtehude: Prelude in F-sharp minor BuxWV 146
Milica Debelnogić – organ
Heinrich Schütz:
Magnificat 1671 SWV 494
Dieterich Buxtehude: Magnificat primi toni BuxWV 203
Stjepan Molnar – organ
Narrator: Christian Wester
Continuo: Katharina Larissa Paech
Institute for Church Music and Organ Choir
Members of Domkantorei Graz
Conductor: Josef M. Doeller


2014 – Fürchte dich nicht [Do Not Fear]

Bach:  motets BWV 225, BWV 228, BWV 229
Bach:  Concertos after Vivaldi for solo organ


2013 – O magnum mysterium

Messiaen: La Nativité du Seigneur
Poulenc: Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël


2012 – Die Nacht ist vergangen [The Night Has Passed]

Reger: Fantasie “Wie schön leucht' uns der Morgenstern”
Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Lobgesang


2011 – Ad nos venite populi

Dupré: Cortège et Litanie (version for organ and orchestra)
Liszt: extracts from Christus
Liszt/Dupré: Ad nos, ad salutarem undam (for organ and orchestra)


2010 – Symphonia Gregoriana

Monteverdi: Ave maris stella (Vespro della Beata Vergine)
Zelenka: Magnificat
Eben: Symphonia Gregoriana


2009 – Evocation

Escaich: Evocation III
Gregorian chant: Responsorium “Missus est Gabriel”
Bach:  Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (transcription for organ and orchestra)
Gregorian chant: Offertorium “Ave Maria”
Bach:  Magnificat from the Christmas Vespers


2008 – Pour le Roi Nouvelet

Gregorian chant: Introitus “Ad te levavi”
Franck: Quae est ista
Gregorian chant: Sequence “Verbum bonum et suave”
Dupré: Variations sur un vieux Noel
Honegger: Une Cantate de Noël
Guilmant: Symphony No. 1 (for organ and orchestra)