The prominent German musician and musicologist Binfried Beinich has held the prominent position of organist at Cologne Cathedral since 2001, while at the same time he is a professor at the city's Music Academy.

The imaginative program he presents at the Megaro contains all the elements that make the church organ attractive to both the more and the less initiated: the grandeur of Bach's music – for whom the instrument was the preeminent field of expression for the most soulful musicians of ideas –, the sensitivity and vast tonal palette of French music (Bierne), the authentic evocativeness of the sound and the instrument's limitless potential to highlight music written for other musical instruments (Liszt). Following a centuries-old tradition, shaped by the world's greatest organists, Beinich closes the concert in the most spectacular way, offering the audience an improvisation.

Program:
J. S. Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata no. 29 (transcription: Wolfram Gehring)
Chorus from Cantata no. 22 (transcription: Maurice Duruflé)
Chorus from Cantata no. 79 (transcription: Virgil Fox)
Samuel Barber: Adagio (transcribed by William Strickland)
Louis Vierne: Three Pieces from Pièces de fantaisie (Fantastic Pieces)
J. S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532
Franz Liszt: Legend no. 2, "St.François de Paule marchant sur les flots"
(transcription: Winfried Bönig)
Winfried Bönig: Improvisation

Church organ: Winfried Bönig