2019 Longwood International Organ Competition winners: Sebastian Heindl, Bryan Anderson, and Colin MacKnight

Longwood's Legacy

…a review of winners' performances from the 2019 Longwood International Organ Competition.

Program Broadcast dates:

• Week of January 20, 2020

Links and Resources:

• Printable program listings

Music played in the program

Hour 1

J. S. BACH:  Passacaglia in c, BWV 582 –Sebastian Heindl

MAURICE DURUFLÉ (trans. Anderson):  Scherzo for Orchestra, Op. 8, no. 2.  MIKAIL GLINKA:  Ruslan & Ludmilla Overture –Bryan Anderson

DAVID GOODE:  Fantasy on Themes by Gershwin –Colin MacKnight

CÉSAR FRANCK:  Cantabile, fr Trois Pieces.  OLIVIER MESSIAEN (trans. Heindl):  Alleluia sur la trompette, alleluia sur la cymbal, fr L’Ascension –Sebastian Heindl

Filler – DURUFLÉ (see above)

Hour 2

SIGFRID KARG ELERT:  Rondo alla Campanella, Op. 156.  KARG-ELERT:  Valse mignonne, Op. 142, no. 2 –Sebastian Heindl

SAMUEL BARBER:  To Longwood Gardens –Bryan Anderson

SERGEI RACHMANNOFF (trans. Hull & McKnight):  Prelude in c#, Op. 3, no. 2 –Colin MacKnight

MODEST MUSSORGSKY (trans. Scott):  Night on Bald Mountain.  MARCEL DUPRÉ:  Variations on a Noël –Sebastian Heindl

Filler – MESSIAEN (see above)

Sebastian Heindl won the Pierre S. du Pont First Prize as well as the AGO Philadelphia Chapter and Audience Choice Prizes in the 2019 Longwood Competition.  Bryan Anderson won the Firmin Swinnen Second Prize, and Colin MacKnight the Clarence Snyder Third Prize.

You also can watch these performances:

• Heindl preliminary and final rounds
• Anderson's preliminary and final rounds
• MacKnight's preliminary round plus Rachmaninoff and Goode-Gershwin

Upcoming performances on Longwood’s 146-rank Aeolian pipe organ feature Michael Smith (1/26), Peter Richard Conte & Polyphonia (3/13), Andrew Senn (3/15), Chris Gage (4/19) and Thomas Heywood (5/1).

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