Adam Brakel plays Buxtehude Praeludium in D Minor

Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ, Merrill Auditorium, Portland, Maine

December 29, 2024, Albany, New York

A short detour

As we approached the end of 2020 while looking forward to 2021, I noted an upcoming event that I had known about for years but had forgotten about recently, the ninetieth birthday of Alfred Brendel. I have been a fan of his for a long time, and I am also a fan of birthdays. Brendel’s birthdate is January 5, 1931.

Held November 4, 2023, on the three-manual, 56-rank Létourneau organ at Truett Seminary