ORGAN RECITALS
April to October
A series of seven monthly recitals by leading organists.
23 APRIL ALCOCK ORGAN RECITAL
Thomas Trotter Birmingham City Organist
Thomas Trotter, internationally-renowned performer, teacher and Birmingham City Organist, gives the opening recital in Salisbury Cathedral’s Organ Recital Series 2008 performing the prestigious Alcock Recital on Wednesday 23 April at 7.30pm.
His inspired programme features music by five composers of a similar generation who write in completely different styles - Alcock, Bridge, Holloway, Messiaen and Stravinsky.
Daniel Cook, Assistant Director of Music at the cathedral and responsible for the series, said, “As the recital is dedicated to the illustrious Sir Walter Alcock who was Organist & Master of the Choristers at Salisbury Cathedral from 1916-1947, Thomas Trotter opens the evening by performing Alcock’s rousing Introduction and Passacaglia with its four note tuba blast! Frank Bridge’s gentle Allegretto grazioso – Andante con moto from his collection of ‘Six Organ Pieces’ follows. 2008 is the 100th anniversary of Messiaen’s birth and in commemoration of this Trotter performs the incredibly beautiful four movement L’Ascensions written between 1933-34. Holloway’s little known Scherzo serves as a light interlude before Trotter brings his recital to a jubilant conclusion performing his own arrangements of three movements from Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka – Danse Russe, Chez Petrushka and La semaine grasse.”
21 MAY THE JENKINSON RECITAL
Simon Hogan Organ Scholar Salisbury Cathedral
Programme
Four Pieces
Paul Spicer
Canon's Fanfare
Elegy
Fanfare for a bride
Paean Oxoniensis
Moto ostinato (Sunday Music)
Petr Eben
Trio Sonata no. 1 Johann Sebastian Bach
Berceuse Louis Vierne
Berceuse a la memoire Louis Vierne
Pierre Cochereau
Fantasy and Fugue on 'Ad nos'
Franz Liszt
11 JUNE ROBERT QUINNEY
Westminster Abbey
Walton - Coronation March: Orb and Sceptre
Bach - Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot
BWV 678 & 679
Messiaen - Combat de la mort et de la vie
Bach - Toccata, Adagio and Fugue BWV 564
Vaughan Williams - Romanza (Symphony No 5)
Dupré - Prelude and Fugue in G minor Op 7
Widor - Final (Symphonie VI)
16 JULY PATRICK RUSSILL
Brompton Oratory
Programme
from Méditations sur la Mystère de la Sainte Trinité (1969) Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Méditation VI: Le Fils
God the Son: ‘In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men.’
Prelude and Fugue in C major (BWV 545) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Chorale Prelude: Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’ (BWV 662) J. S. Bach
Choral No. 3 in A minor César Franck (1822-1890)
from 24 Pièces en style libre Op. 31
Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
No. 5: Prélude
No. 14: Scherzetto
Stèle pour un enfant défunt (Op.58 No.3)
Louis Vierne
from L’Orgue Mystique (1932): Charles Tournemire (1870-1939)
Alleluia No.4 (Office 32)
O clap your hands all ye people
Choral Alleluiatique No.4 (Office 46)
Let my prayer rise like incense into thy sight, O Lord
Communion: De fructu (Office 38)
May the earth be filled with the fruits of thy work, O Lord
Fantasie sur le Te Deum et Guirlandes Alleluiatiques (Office 51)
We praise thee, O God: we acknowledge thee to be the Lord
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13 AUGUST DANIEL COOK
Salisbury Cathedral
“As my recital is two days before the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, I have chosen to base my programme round Marian music. The Bull, Rheinberger, Tournemire, Reger and Buxtehude are all based on Marian themes with the recital being framed by the famous Bach Prelude and Fugue in D and Marcel Dupre’s fiendishly difficult Suite.
Programme
Bach - Prelude and Fugue in D BWV 532
Bull - Salve Regina
MacMillan - Gaudeamus in loci pace
Rheinberger - Sonata No 3
Tournemire - Fantasie sur “l’Ave maris stella”
Reger - Ave Maria Op 80
Buxtehude - Magnificat Primi toni
Grünenwald - Hymne aux mémoires héroïques
10 SEPTEMBER KEITH WRIGHT
Durham Cathedral
Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No 4
Sweelinck - Pavana lachrymae
Byrd - The Battle
Bach/Vivaldi - Concerto in D minor
Schumann - Four Sketches for Pedal Piano
Debussy - Andante (from String Quartet)
Wagner - Prelude to Act 1, Die Meistersinger
8 OCTOBER THE EMERY RECITAL
Michael Harris St Giles Cathedral Edinburgh
Programme to include:
Hollins - Concert Overture in C minor
Bach - Prelude and Fugue in C BWV 531
Franck - Fantasie in A
Hakim - Variations on Two Themes
All held on a Wednesday evening from 7.30pm-8.45pm
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