Opening Concert
Scott Brothers Duo

Friday, October 3rd, 2025
7:00 pm


Jonathan Scott, harmonium
Tom Scott, piano

It is a bit like an accolade when the probably world's best duo for harmonium and piano has once again accepted my invitation to the festival with great enthusiasm.
Jonathan and Tom are already looking forward to the family atmosphere here, and you can be very excited about what musical treasures of the Romantic era they will come up with this time.
> Scott Brothers Duo
Late Night Impro
werken

Friday, October 3rd, 2025
9:30 pm


Trio for free improvisation:

Sarah Buchner, voice, toys
Max Arsava, harmonium, piano, electronics
Sebastian Langer, clarinet, bass clarinet, bordunium

The three musicians of "werken" are united by a curiosity for unusual sounds and noises, a sense of humor with a Dadaist touch and the desire to find an open and unprejudiced way of communication between the actors in improvisation.
In 2023, their debut album "kollektive verkabelung" made it straight onto the longlist of the German Record Critics in the "Border crossings" category, and it is great fun to get involved with experimental music by listening, feeling and marvelling.
> Sebastian Langer
Autumn Roses – Tangos from Poland
TastoCorno

Saturday, October 4th, 2025
3:00 pm


Katharina Hesse, french horn
Eva Meitner, harmonium

Now we can finally satisfy your curiosity about what Polish tangos are all about, since we unfortunately had to cancel this concert at the last festival due to illness.
The two musicians have set themselves the task of reviving the memory of the many Jewish tango composers who lost their lives in the Holocaust.
With horn and harmonium as a distinctive sound combination, it is not only "Bei mir bistu schein"...
> TastoCorno
Norwegian Impressions
Glimmer

Saturday, October 4th, 2025
7:00 pm


Nils Økland, harding fiddle
Sigbjørn Apeland, harmonium, piano

If you ask a chemist, you will hear the technical term "layered silicate" for the mineral mica, but it's (Latin) name as well means shimmer, sparkle or shine.
The fact that an album by Nils Økland and Sigbjørn Apeland bears this name certainly says something about the music of the two, which finds its home in the border area between folk and jazz.
> Nils Økland
Choir Concert
Stabat mater

Sunday, October 5th, 2025
11:00 am

Klosterkirche St. Nikolaus


Der kleine Frauenchor, Düsseldorf
Conductor: Alina Ostapenko

Klaus Langer, physharmonika

In the series of choral music, which we are thankfully allowed to continue under the wonderful acoustic conditions in the monastery church of St. Nikolaus, we are being visited this time by "Der Kleine Frauenchor" from Düsseldorf-Bilk (known to insiders as FCB for short, but more exciting than any football game).
The top-class ensemble is a guest with a predominantly sacred program that gives us a multifaceted view of this special form of choral music.
> Der kleine Frauenchor
Pure Romantic
Harmonium meets... Harp

Sunday, October 5th, 2025
3:00 pm


Giedrė Siaulytė, harp
Dirk Luijmes, harmonium

Hardly any other instrumental duo complements each other as fabulously as the harp and the harmonium. The cantable, expressive playing on the harmonium with its intense sound and the percussive sound structure of the harp form a real highlight of the romantic expressive possibilities with this duo, coupled with high demands on virtuousness.
This concert is also the prelude to the winter concert season in Brüggen, which will be conceived by Giedrė Siaulytė .
> Giedre Siaulyte
> Dirk Luijmes
Planning status: February 16th, 2025. Subject to change.