Seitse sammu Bachini

Kristel Pärtna (soprano)  Aare Tammesalu (cello)   Piret Aidulo (organ)    Programme:   Lepnurm, Dupré, Guilmant, Lemmens, Hesse, Rinck, Kittel, Bach     The concert title refers to a rare continuity in the world of music — a connection that links Estonian organist and composer Hugo Lepnurm directly to Johann Sebastian Bach. Lepnurm furthered his studies in Paris with Marcel Dupré, whose teacher Alexandre Guilmant studied under Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens. Lemmens’s teacher Adolf Friedrich Hesse, in turn, studied with Christian Heinrich Rinck, whose master was Bach’s favourite pupil, Johann Christian Kittel.    Through the relationships between musician-teachers and their students, the masters’ art of interpretation and musical principles were passed down from generation to generation — for example, Bach’s long-forgotten pedal technique, which astonished Parisian audiences when Lemmens performed it in 1852. The unbroken organ tradition to this day (Piret Aidulo was a student of Professor Hugo Lepnurm at the Tallinn State Conservatory) confirms that classical music is not merely history, but a living tradition.