The prominent German musician and musicologist Winfried Banich has held the prominent position of organist at Cologne Cathedral since 2001 and is a professor at the city’s Academy of Music. The imaginative programme he presents at Megaron the Athens Concert Hall contains all the elements that make the organ appealing to both the more and less initiated: the grandeur of Bach’s music – for whom the organ was the pre-eminent field for the expression of his most intimate musical ideas – the sensitivity and vast timbral palette of French music (Vierne), the authentic evocativeness of the sound and the infinite potential of the organ to bring out music written for other instruments (Liszt). Following a centuries-old tradition shaped by the world’s greatest organists, Bönig closes the concert in the most spectacular way, offering the audience an improvisation.