"ERBARME DICH" BY BACH - XAVER VARNUS (ORGAN), ORSOLYA SZALADOS (VIOLIN), ANDRAS WEBER (CELLO)

•●The Official Video Site of Concert Organist Xaver Varnus●• The Varnus Organ Hall needs your help. We are asking the community's support to restoring and operating Varnus Hall, Canada's only private organ concert venue owned by Xaver Varnus, to provide a worthy home for organists, famous artists and young talent alike, from around the world to perform, and broadcast their concerts online. We are grateful to you if you can help our work with any donations. https://ca.gofundme.com/f/fundraising... "In the loving memory of Rev. Aladár Gáncs." ‘Erbarme dich, mein Gott’ (Have Mercy, my God) from Saint Matthew Passion (BWV 244) by Johann Sebastian Bach. Orsolya Szalados (violin), Andras Weber (cello) with the participation of Xaver Varnus on the Casavant Organ in the Church of St. Elizabeth in Toronto. Filmed on January 6, 2020. Special thanks to the Rev. Tamas Forrai SJ, Rector of of St. Elizabeth's and Zoltán Osváth (Sound Engineer). Xaver Varnus' first piano teacher was Emma Németh, one of the last pupils of Debussy. He has played virtually every important organ in the world, including those in Bach's Thomaskirche in Leipzig (2014), Berliner Dom (2013), Notre-Dame (1981), Saint-Sulpice (2006) and Saint-Eustache (1996) in Paris, National Shrine in Washington, D.C. (1985), and Canterbury Cathedral (2004), as well as the largest existing instrument in the world, the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia (1985). His Quadruple Platinum Disc winning album From Ravel to Vangelis (SONY, 2007), is the best-selling organ CD ever. As a Canadian citizen, Xaver Varnus resides in Berlin and Toronto. "Put simply, Varnus is a monster talent, every bit as stimulating and individual as the late Glenn Gould" (The Globe & Mail, Canada's National Newspaper). "He is one of the most influential figure in organ music in the early twenty-first century." (Mark Wigmore, The New Classical FM, Canada). Booking & Enquiries: xavervarnus@hotmail.com