Sunday | March 8 | 5:00 p.m. | Wittenberg Castle Church
Rev. Stefan Günther, Spiritual Reflections • KMD Ulrich Hirtzbruch, Organ • Free Admission - Collection
Organ music for Passiontide will be the focus of a concert on Sunday, March 8, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. in Wittenberg Castle Church. Works by Georg Böhm, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Max Reger, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, and Jean Langlais will be performed on the historic Ladegast organ by KMD Ulrich Hirtzbruch. Pastor Stefan Günther, Director of Studies at the Seminary, will offer spiritual reflections on Passiontide. Admission is free; a collection will be taken at the exit.
The program opens with the Prelude in D minor by Georg Böhm. This will be followed by the Fantasia in C minor and arrangements of the Passion chorale "O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß" by Johann Sebastian Bach. From Johannes Brahms's eleven chorale preludes, Op. 122, two expressive arrangements of the chorale "Herzlich tut mich verlangen" (My heart longs for you) will be performed; these are based on the melody of the Passion hymn "O Haupt, voll Blut und Wunden" (O Sacred Head, Now Wounded).
