While many pieces written for the organ are entitled "Fantasia", or "Fantasy'", or "Fancy", or any various spellings in other languages, the term means very different things for composers of different time periods and locations. This program explores some of these differences through Fantasies spanning from the early Baroque to the Twentieth Century, both freely composed and based on an existing madrigal or chorale.
Program:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) – Fantasia in G Major (Pièce d'Orgue), BWV 572
Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654) – Fantasia sopra "Io son ferito lasso", Fuga quadruplici, SSWV 103 (1624)
Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697) – Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (Choralfantasie)
Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780) – Fantasia sopra "Freu dich sehr", Krebs-WV 520
Krebs – Fantasia à giusto Italiano, Krebs-WV 422
Max Reger (1873-1916) – Phantasie über den Choral "Halleluja! Gott zu loben, bleibe meine Seelenfreud!", Op. 52, No. 3 (1900)