2015 Sept-Dec Organ Programmes

Programmes SLJ Sept to December 2015

September 8^th SIMON HOLZWARTH (Germany)

Chorale no. 3 in A minor                 César Franck(1822- 1890)                                             

From Pièces de fantaisie:  Andantino ; Carillon de Westminster  

          Louis Vierne(1870-1837)

Litanies                                          Jehan Alain(1911 - 1940)

Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain op. 7         Maurice Duruflé(1902-1986)

Improvisation on two themes presented by  audience members

                                                         Simon J. Holzwarth(*1995)

September 15^th  CATHERINE ENNIS

Music by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Toccata and fugue in d minor BWV 538 (“Dorian”)                                                            

Three chorale preludes: O Lamm Gottes unschuldig BWV 656; Trio super Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend BWV 655; Wir glauben all BWV 740

Pièce d’orgue in G BWV 572 (from the Walther manuscript)

September 22^nd LINDEN INNES-HOPKINS (St. Albans)

Allegro moderato (No 6 from Church Pieces)     William Thomas Best (1826-1897)

Chorale variations on ‘Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig’ BWV 768   J S Bach (1685-1750)

Rhapsody in D flat, Opus 17 No 1 (composed 1915)   Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

Pastorale from Sonata No 1 (Opus 42)                 Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)

Paean                                        Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)

September 29^th CATHERINE ENNIS

Crown Imperial (arr. Murrill)              Sir William Walton (1902-1983)

Trio sonata no. 6 in G      BWV 530                 J.S.Bach (1685-1750)

Allegro-Lento- Allegro

Five dances for organ (1988)                         John Gardner (b.1917)

Lavolta- Pavin- Jig- Lament- Fling

Pomp and Circumstance March no 1 in D (arr. Lemare)

                                                            Sir Edward Elgar (1856-1934)

OCTOBER RECITALS BY PAST RECIPIENTS OF AWARDS FROM THE ERIC THOMPSON TRUST

Please see separate leaflet for programme details

October 6^th     ANTHONY DALY (Organ scholar, Clare College Cambridge)

October 13^th    PAUL DEAN (Director of Music, St. Michael’s, Highgate)

October 20^th   PETER HOLDER (Assistant Organist, St. Paul’s Cathedral)

October 27^th   ALEX BINNS (Organ scholar, Southwark Cathedral)

November 3^rd  CATHERINE ENNIS 

Mathaeus- finale, from Bach’s Memento             Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)

Symphony no. 6 in G minor op.42 no.2               Charles-Marie Widor

Allegro- Adagio- Intermezzo- Cantabile- Finale

November 10th CATHERINE ENNIS

 Remembrance

Fugue sur le thème du Carillon des heures de la Cathédrale de Soissons

Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)     

An Wasserflüssen Babylon BWV653     Johann Sebastian Bach(1675-1750)   

Solemn melody                                    Sir Henry Walford Davies(1869-1941)                     

Nimrod                                                         Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)      

Homage March                                       Edward Grieg (1843-1907)                                           

Chorale prelude: Eventide     Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918)

Prélude et fugue sur le nom d’Alain                 Maurice Duruflé

November 17^th DOROTHEA HARRIS (Edinburgh)

Passacaglia in C minor BWV 562                   Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Variations on Unter den Linden grünen      Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)

Passacaglia in D minor                                     Johann Kaspar Kerll (1627-1693)

Sonata 6 in D minor                           Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)

Cortège et Litanie                                             Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)

November 24^th CATHERINE ENNIS          

Six “Schubler “ Chorales, BWV 645-650     Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Wachet auf; Wo soll ich fliehen hin: Wer nur den lieben Gott; Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn; Ach bleib bei uns Herr Jesu Christ; Kommst du nun Jesu von Himmel herunter

Marche du veilleur de nuit (from Bach’s Memento) Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)

Fantasia and fugue in g minor BWV 542                  J.S. Bach

December 1^st    CATHERINE ENNIS

3 Chorale Preludes on Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland  BVW 659,660,661  

                                                                  Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)            

Trois Rhapsodies sur des Noëls  Bretons     Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)          

The Holy Boy                                   John Ireland (1879-1962)                                   

For unto us (from  Messiah, arr. Best)    Georg Friderich Handel (1685-1759)        

December 8^th   CATHERINE ENNIS

Angelus ad virginem                       Heinrich Scheidemann (1595-1663)

Hymne: Pange lingua                          Nicolas De Grigny (?1671-1703)

1.            En taille a 4

2.            Fugue a 5

3.            Récit du Chant de l’Hymne précédent

Les Anges, les bergers, and les mages (from “La Nativité du Seigneur”)

                                                            Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

March on “Lift up your heads”                   Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)

December 15^th  Carols for choir and audience

You are warmly invited to our seasonal feast of words and music. Words familiar and unfamiliar will be read by the Vicar of St Lawrence Jewry, the Reverend David Parrott. Carols will be led by the renowned Choir of St. Lawrence Jewry with organist Catherine Ennis.