Reichenstein cultural circle
Our aim
For us, organs mean commitment and challenge:
- for music, whose boundless literature should be conserved and developed according to the spirit of the age.
- for the essence of the works of former organ builders who found their place in the ranks of classical painters and sculptors.
- for a handicraft, rich in tradition, which does not stop creating new impulses on the organ from almost boundless possibilities of expressions - and this on the highest level.
We, however, do not intend to limit ourselves to the subject of "Organ", we want to conbine it with as many as possible corresponding forms of art.
It is not by chance that we have chosen Schloss-Burg Reichenstein as our cultural centre:
At the gate of the World Heritage Region Upper Middle Rhine Valley we want to send out impulses to discover one of the most important cultural regions in Europe.
Here, the Puricelli family, who, in the 19th century, restored the castle and had it transformed to a rich residence, created a cultural centre excellent collections of paintings, hunting trophies, furniture, and musical instruments, among them a fine Steinmeyer organ II/ 14 ped.. Their main interest was painting and family music, activities attested by thousands of sheets of music, sketches,and paintings. The "Reichenstein Circle", created in this setting, lately organized, in cooperation with the "Hunsrück-Museum"/Simmern, a great retospective of Friedrich Karl Ströher, a late expressionist of Rhineland-Palatinate.
We have taken up this tradition by informally creating the "Reichenstein Cultural Circle" with a program of its own - last year with the emphasis on organ- and piano concerts, the latter with the leitmotiv "Romanticism" in connection with Frederic Chopin, both on Reichenstein Castle/Trechtingshausen and on the Oberlinger Organ in the orgel-Art-museum in Windesheim.
That was the year 2007
April 21st. 2007 Organ-Gala „ Oberlinger au Printemps “ ( Klaus Evers );
May 20th„ Kunibert, der Orgelwurm “ ( Thomas Lennartz )
Organ Concert for and with children;
Jun 3rd Romantic Matinee ( Yuki Nagatsuka/ Gerhard Wöllstein )
four-handed piano concert;
August 23rd „ A Winter on Majorca “ ( Wolfgang Niess )
Literary-musical piano afternoon with Chopin/ G.Sand
Oktober 3rd Library Concert ( Elena Kitáeva )
Dezember 9th „ Conveniamus in Adventu “ ( Frau Beate Rux-Voss )
Organ-concert in Advent.
That was the year 2007
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