The Johanneskirche AKA Church of St. John is a Roman Catholic church located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Despite its limited sized (it seats only 900!) the high ceilings give it beautiful acoustics. It features a Metzler pipe organ withe 50 stops and 3,536 pipes It also has a split console so that two organ players can play music simultaneously.
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Returning to #BaroqueSun is The Church of Our Lady Bremen and it’s beautiful alter (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111876057915635357)

First Parish Cambridge is a Unitarian Universalist Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The church has a storied 400yr history of various spiritual and congregational changes. It has a restored Frobenius pipe organ with 40 stops and 2,949 pipes and is tonally designed with neo-classical music in mind.
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Winspear hall at the University of North Texas’s Murchison Performing Arts Center can seat 1,025. (Unfortunately, I could not find information on their pipe organ)
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The Concert Hall of the conservatoire Royal Northern College of Music is located in Manchester, England. It was recently fully refurbished and can seat nearly 800 people. Its unique octagonal space also features a Hradetsky 4 manual concert pipe organ.
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Lutherse Kerk is a Lutheran church in Haarlem, Netherlands that was built in 1615. It features a 4register, fully restored Strobel pipe organ.
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Abbazia di Maguzzano is a 15th century Catholic abbey near the town of Simione, Italy. It is now partially a museum, a school for iconography and a space for music arts events.
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Schloss Hellbrunn is an early Baroque villa in Salzburg, Austria that was completed in 1619 for the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. It is most known for its beautiful interiors and grounds which make it a popular tourist and events hosting destination in the summer months.
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The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111995080646160469) returns to #BaroqueSun

The Seoul Arts Center is an arts complex in Seocho District, Seoul, South Korea. It it comprised of five main buildings: the Opera House (with three auditoriums), the Music Hall (with two concert halls), the Hangaram Art Museum, the Hangaram Design Museum, and the Seoul Calligraphy Art Museum. The Music Hall was completed in 1988 and its concert hall can seat 2,523 people while the recital hall is more intimate with seating for only 354. The Seoul Arts Center has no pipe organ💔
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The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra rehearse and perform at the Oslo Concert Hall in Vika, Oslo, Norway. It was completed in 1977 and can seat 1,600 people. It is home to the 2nd largest pipe organ in Norway with 7,000 pipes
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Església de Sant Andreu in Santanyí, Spain was completed in 1811. It’s an exceptionally unique building in that it’s built out of special sandstones from Santanyí. It’s known for its bell tower and for its massive altarpiece. The altarpiece and exquisite, 2 manual Jordi Bosch- designed pipe organ were brought to Santanyí after the minister Mendizábal ordered the monastery’s property seized😱 The pipe organ was so large, that the church had to be redesigned to accommodate it!
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity was established in 1904 in NYC. It’s known for its beautiful altar, gorgeous pipe organs and the Bach Vespers series (https://www.holytrinitynyc.org/bach-vespers) which began in 1968. It’s the first instance in The USA where the Bach Cantatas can be heard on their appointed day in the context of the liturgical calendar performed by a professional Bach Choir. Also, the church was featured in the 1984 film “Ghostbusters”!
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Smetana hall is located in The Municipal House AKA Obecní dům in Prague. The exterior of this Art Nouveau building features artwork inspired by Czech sculptor Ladislav Šaloun. It can seat 1,259 and has a Tucek pipe organ at center stage.
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#BaroqueSun mainstays Church of Our Lady Bremen (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111876057915635357) and The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111995080646160469)
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The Singer-Polignac hotel in Paris, France was built in the 1770s. It now hosts various musicians as both artists-in-residency and for performances.
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Schuilkerk De Hoop AKA “The Clandestine Church of Hope” in Amsterdam was built in 1786. Its unique non-ostentatious aesthetic is that due to anti-catholic sentiments church could not be recognisable as a traditional catholic religious institution. By the 20th century the church had fallen into disuse and became a local music school and community arts space- which it has since remained.
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St Leodegar is a Catholic Church in Möhlin, Switzerland that was originally established in 735CE but burned in 1633 and was rebuilt in 1639.
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Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, Russia was established in 1940 and with seating for 1,505 it’s considered one of the largest concert halls in Russia. With 81 stops, 7, 800 pipe and weighing over 480lbs, the hall’s Reiger-Kloss Pipe Organ is one of the largest in Russia and was inaugurated in the mid-1950s and features a unique blend of voices in its workings that make it considered a national treasure.
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Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is an art museum in Copenhagen, Denmark that is based around the private collection of Danish Brewer, collector and philanthropist Carl Jacobsen. It was Established in 1897, averages over 500,000 yearly visitors and due its’ architecture being noted for wonderful acoustics it often hosts concerts in the auditorium and the exhibition halls.
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Mariager Abbey in Mariager, Denmark was founded in 1430 as an abbey for a monastic religious order of the Catholic Church, today it’s also partially converted into a registry office and charitable institution. It’s well known for it’s gorgeous, fully restored, 47 stop Aubertin pipe organ, which is the second ever French built pipe organ in Denmark😍
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The Church of St. Luke & St. Simon Cyrene is an Episcopal gothic revival style Church in Rochester, New York was built in 1823. It has an E.M. Skinner built, 3 manual pipe organ that was built in the mid 1920s that is still in use to this day.
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Jeanne Lamon Hall is a performance space at Trinity-St. Paul's United Church and Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts in Toronto, Canada. It has a beautifully restored Casavant Frères pipe organ that was built in 1941.
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And the Frankfurt Radio Symphony (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111836474107242549) makes a triumphant return to #BaroqueSun

Konzerthaus Berlin in Berlin, Germany was first opened in 1802, destroyed by a fire in 1817, rebuilt in 1821, damaged by allied bombing and the Battle of Berlin and finally rebuilt AGAIN in 1977. It has an elaborate, fully restored 74 register Jehmlich House Organ that has 5,811 pipes which is nicknamed “The Queen”.
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DiMenna Center for Classical Music is located inside of The Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City. It opened in 2011 and welcomes over 100,000 visitors per year
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Stavros Niarchos Hall is part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, Greece. It was completed in 2016, can seat 1,400 and is the home of the Greek National Opera, the Greek Radio Symphony and The National Library of Greece.
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Both the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111995080646160469) and Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/112232641690408005) return to #BaroqueSun

Returning is #BaroqueSun mainstay the Church of Our Lady Bremen (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111876057915635357)

Esplanade: Theatres on the Bay is a Performing Arts Centre located in Downtown Core, Singapore near the Singapore River. It was completed in 2002 and its five venues can seat a combined total of 3,600 people. It wasn’t designed to look like the infamous Durian fruit but it does so locals nicknamed it “the two durians”. The largest performance hall features a pipe organ with 4,740 pipes and 61 stops designed by Johannes Klais Orgelbau😍
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Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall is a performing arts centre in Empress Place, Singapore. It was completed in 1902, was used as a hospital during WWII, a venue for post WWII Japanese war crime conviction trials and was designated a National Monument on Valentine’s Day in 1992. It can seat 600 and features a 50yr old Klais pipe organ that has 2,012 pipes and is also Singapore's only fully mechanical organ😍
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The Auditorio Nacional de Música is concert venue complex in Madrid, Spain that opened in 1988 and its three hall can seat a combined 3,224 people. The Main hall AKA La Sala Sinfónica features a 5,700 pipe Gethard Grenzig pipe organ- which is one of the largest in the world😍
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The Parish Church of St Jude-on-the-Hill is located in London, England and was established in 1907. In addition to the beautifully maintained murals at the alter, the church is considered to be an excellent example of Queen Anne Revival style architecture. It features a distinguished restored and refurbished Father Willis pipe organ and regularly hosts music and arts festivals and local events. Also, the church has a podcast? (https://www.stjudeonthehill.com/podcast)
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De Duif is a hybrid neo-classicist/neo-baroque style Roman Catholic Church in Amsterdam that was built in 1858. It was declared a Rijksmonument AKA a national heritage site of the Netherlands in 1995. Despite no longer being used to hold official religious events it is used to host cultural and local events and it is still home to a large, fully restored, working Smits-orgel pipe organ.
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The Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel is a music school in Waterloo, Belgium that was established in 1939. The intimate (they only take 50 students per year) residential conservatory also operates a recording studio and hosts concerts and events year round. Also, they have a merch shop with albums & etc. if that interests anyone (https://shop.utick.be/?module=CATALOGUE&pos=MUSICCHAPEL&catalogueid=1300)
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Abbey of San Basilide is a former 11th century monastery located in Badia Cavana, Parma, Italy
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Villa Parco Bolasco is a 19th century Italian villa that now hosts various cultural and local events. It is known for its beautiful gardens, tasteful art collection and exquisite grounds.
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Saint Michael’s Church is a Roman Catholic Church in Ghent, Belgium that was established in 1105. It was partially destroyed and rebuilt twice due to warfare activities. It also has an exquisite 47 stop pipe organ😍
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The Musikkollegium Winterthur is located in Winterthur, Switzerland and was designed by Gottfried Semper in the early 19th century. Thanks to early 20th century arts patrons bringing in big stars like Igor Stravinsky and Richard Strauss to create and maintain creative links to the city it and the Musikkollegium Winterthur became a center of European musical life of the era.
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