"Around the world with 3 organs and 2 saxophones" Volker Jaekel - church organ, portative Gert Anklam - saxophones, Chinese mouth organ Sheng

The programme spans an arc through the ages from early music
to jazz and combines the most diverse musical influences of the
influences of the artists into a varied programme through space and
space and time. The programme features unusual arrangements of old chorales, original compositions influenced by collaboration with musicians from other
with musicians from other cultures, orchestral soundscapes on the organ
orchestral soundscapes on the organ, dance-like minimal grooves and rousing improvisations, the Sheng mouth organ with Chinese sounds, the portative, rooted in the Middle Ages and the virtuosic and groovy
Volker Jaekel's virtuoso and grooving church organ. They all enter into a musical dialogue with the sonorous saxophone played by Gert Anklam.
The Mehmel organ, which can now be heard again following its extensive restoration in 2017/18, was completed in 1866 and inaugurated on the 4th Sunday in Advent of the same year. The Royal Director of Music, August Wagner, praised the organ on 22 January 1867: "The entire organ can be considered a success and the work does credit to its builder." Mehmel used very colourful dispositions and attached great importance to delicate voices. In addition, the organ with its 37 stops was intended to have a good effect when the church was full. Contemporaries already appreciated the harmonisation of tone and sound (intonation).
Even today, we still enjoy its unadulterated romantic sound. It is a great stroke of luck that the organ has been preserved almost in its original state over the past decades. As Mehmel's large instruments were destroyed during the Second World War, the Greifswald example is the largest organ in north-east Germany and one of the larger Romantic instruments in general. Even when instruments elsewhere were changed in their tuning during the organ movement between 1920 and 1970, the Mehmel organ was spared.