Giant Organ Concerts at St Stephens Cathedral

Listen to a concert on the new Giant Organ at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna! Mighty sounds from more than 12,000 pipes fill one of the most beautiful churches in the world. In the organ concerts, world-class international organists play a wide-ranging programme from Bach over Reger to gems of organ music.

The Giant Organ (130 stops) in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral, which has not been playable for 25 years, has been renewed by the  organ building company Rieger from the Austrian federal state of Vorarlberg and connected to the choir organ (55 stops) in the front area of St. Stephen's Cathedral, which was also built by Rieger in 1991. The connection of the two organs will make it possible for the first time in the history of the cathedral to fill the space with a multi-dimensional sound, from a central console with five manuals and now a remarkable 185 stops. Please find further information on the website of Vienna Cathedral Organ.

Program and cast

21 February  2026

Marc Fitze (Bern)

28 February 2026

Xavier Deprez (Brussels)

8 March 2026

Stefano Molardi (Cremona)

14 March 2026

Domorganist Ernst Wally

21 March 2026

Arkadiusz Bialic (Krakow)

28 March  2026 Passion Concert »Via Crucis« - for the 140th anniversary of Franz Liszt's death

Performers
Vocal Ensemble St. Stephan
Robert Kovács, organ
Domkapellmeister Markus Landerer, direction

Programme

Franz Liszt: Via crucis/p>

Franz Liszt: Variations on "Weeping, lamenting, worrying, fretting"

18 April 2026 

Johannes Skudlik (Landsberg)

25 April 2026

Emmanuel Arakélian (St. Maximin)

2 May 2026

Elias Praxmarer (Stams)

9 May 2026

Jörg Abbing (Saarbrücken)

Olivier Messiaen: Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité

16 May 2026

Anne-Gaëlle Chanon (Metz)

23 May 2026

Domorganist Konstantin Reymaier