Organ and sacredness on the turn of the century Presented by Liszt Academy

The concert by the Church Music Department selects from works on the Eucharist, the Sacrament of the Altar. The programme first features melodies from Maundy Thursday liturgical music celebrating the Last Supper, the foundation of the Eucharist, from Gregorian chants of the service and their medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Romantic polyphonic arrangements to organ works that set the propositions of the celebration to music, not forgetting the songs of the sacrament and organ works of the Protestant Church. St. Thomas Aquinas compiled texts of the psalms and mass of Corpus Christi, which is why the liturgical texts are counterpointed by the beautiful verses on the Sacrament of the Altar: the ‘Lauda Sion’ sequence, the ‘Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysterium’ hymn and the song beginning ‘Adoro te devote’ glorifying the sacred body of Christ. Of the poems on the Eucharist, the so-called sacred songs beginning ‘Ave verum Corpus’ and ‘Ecce panis angelorum’ were very popular in all ages, thus the audience can also enjoy a few attractive arrangements of these. The programme is rounded out with processional songs, archaic village prayers and folk songs.