Holm Vogel plays Bach, Buxtehude, and other Baroque music on the 1736 Bielfeldt organ in Stade

Holm Vogel is blind from birth. Nevertheless, he became organist and got a profession in organ music. In the region “Altes Land“ (old country) near Hamburg, one of Europe’s important organ regions, he was never been before. He knew the Schnitger organs only from hearsay. The 73 years old professor, one of the last living trainees of Helmut Walcha, and his wife Christine was invited in May 2013 by broadcast station NDR-Kultur to explore this old organ landscape. They traveled with organist Martin Böcker from one old organ to the next - stop by stop - to open up the characteristics and the sound of this organ landscape. For broadcast station NDR-Kultur Holm Vogel performed the following organ works all from his memory on Erasmus-Bielfeldt-organ (1736) in Stade, after he explored the organ with his ears and his sense of touch. 0:00 Dietrich Buxtehude: Präludium und Fuge fis-Moll, BuxWV 146 9:15 Johann Gottfried Walther: Concerto del Sign. Albinoni für Orgel F