Program

7 pm • Performance

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756–91)
God is Our Refuge, K20 (1765)
Church Sonata No. 6 in B-flat Major, K212 (1775)
Church Sonata in D Major, K245 (1776)
Vesperae solennes de Confessore, K339 (1780)
Adagio and Allegro in F Minor for Mechanical Organ, K594 (1790)

Gregorio Allegri (c. 1582–1652)
Miserere mei, Deus (1661)

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Chandos Anthem No. 4, “ O sing unto the Lord,” HWV 249b (1718)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Fürchte dich nicht, BWV 228 (1726)

Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Missa brevis in F Major, Hob. XXIII:1 (1749)

Thomas Attwood (1765–1838)
O God, Who by the Leading of a Star (1814)

Louis Jean Desprez (1743–1804) and Francesco Piranesi (1748-1810), Holy Sacrament in the Pauline Chapel, etching, ca. 1785. Credit: Alamy

The Organ

The organ at the Church of the Messiah was installed in 1923 by the celebrated E.M. Skinner Company of Boston. The company, which had a reputation for creating instruments of superb quality and great tonal beauty, built organs for prominent churches and universities, including both the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine and St. Thomas Church in New York. A gift to the parish by Captain Vincent Astor, the organ has just returned to the church following a major reconditioning by Quimby Pipe Organs of Warrensburg, Missouri.

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Church of the Messiah
6436 Montgomery Street
Rhinebeck, NY 12572

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