The Faculty of Music at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, in collaboration with Kulturzentrum, a cultural center founded by the Lebanese-German Association for the Promotion of Culture, organized a concert animated by Markus Karas, a German organist.

This concert took place on November 17, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. at the John-Paul II Amphitheater – USEK Main Campus.

The program included symphonies for:
Buxtehude, Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Franck and Karas

Program:

Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Prelude in G minor, BuxWV 149

Markus Karas (*1961)
“I trust God in fear and distress”

3 chorales in the style of Bach counterpoint (1983):

• Cantus firmus im Tenor
• Fuge
• In Organo pleno (Cantus firmus in bass)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Extract of 5 symphonies for the “Flötenuhr”: Allegretto in C major, WoO 33, N°2

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Sonata in A major, op. 65, N°3