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RECENT EVENTS

2007

 

Bristol Organists' Association Annual Dinner

Saturday 27th January

             Guest Speaker

 

Organ Recital, Westminster Abbey

Sunday 25th February 5.45pm

             March on a Theme of Handel – Félix-Alexandre Guilmant

             Prelude and Fugue in A – Johann Sebastian Bach

             Variations on Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen – Ferenc Liszt

 

Organ Recital, Christ Church Bristol

Wednesday 18th April, 1.10pm

             Toccata in D minor – Dietrich Buxtehude

             Eine kleine Leipziger Gigue in G K574 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

             Prelude and Fugue on BACH – Franz Liszt

 

Organ Recital, Truro Cathedral

Friday 27th April 1.10pm

             Excelsior! – Ferenc Liszt

             Prélude Funèbre – Guy Ropartz

             Eine kleine Leipziger Gigue in G K574 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

             Fantaisie iii in C op. 157 – Camille Saint-Saëns

             Les Elves Op 7 xi – Josef Bonnet

             Rubrics – Dan Locklair

 

Organ Recital, St John’s College, Cambridge

Sunday 6th May, 6.00pm

             Fantasia in G minor Op136 – York Bowen

             Batalla de 6o tono – José Ximenes

             Three movements from Rubrics iii, iv, v – Dan Locklair

 

“Choral Evensong”, BBC Radio 3

Directing Bath Abbey Choir

Sunday 10th June, 4.00pm

             How beauteous are their feet – Stanford

             Responses – Leighton

             Psalms 1, 15, 147

             The Bath Abbey Service – Piccolo

             Lord, thou hast been our refuge – Bairstow

             Hymns “Disposer supreme”

 

Organ Recital, Bath Abbey

Wednesday 13th June, 1.05pm

             Passacaglia in D minor – Buxtehude

             Prelude and Fugue in A – J S Bach

             Benedictus Op59 ix – Max Reger

             Sonata ii in C minor – Felix Mendelssohn

             Preludium na Valašskou Píseň – Vítĕzslav Novák

             Fanfare – Jacques Nicholas Lemmens

 

Organ Recital, Bath Abbey

Saturday 16th June, 6.15pm

             Toccata in D minor – Dietrich Buxtehude

             Adagio in B minor – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

             Scherzo in G minor – Enrico Bossi

             Elegiac Romance – John Ireland

             Popular Song (from Façade) – Sir William Walton

             Orpheus – Franz Liszt

             Choral iii in A minor – César Franck

 

Cathedral Saint-Sauveur, Aix-en-Provence

Choral Concert , Directing Bath Abbey Choir

Friday 22nd June, 8.00pm

             Panis angelicus (with local Choir) – César Franck

             Litanies à la Vierge Noire – Francis Poulenc

             Lift thine eyes – Felix Mendelssohn

             Ex ore innocentium – John Ireland

             Agnus Dei (Krönungs Mess) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

             Laudate pueri – Felix Mendelssohn

             The Three Kings (Christmas Songs) – Peter Cornelius

             Mass in A – Joseph Rheinberger

             Let the bright seraphim – George Frederick Handel

 

Mass, Le Saint Esprit, Aix-en-Provence

Directing Bath Abbey Choir

Saturday 23rd June, 6.30 pm

             King of glory – Sir William Harris

             Panis angelicus – César Franck

             Tantum ergo – Gabriel Fauré

             A Song of Wisdom Op 113 vi – Sir Charles Stanford

 

Organ Recital, St Augustine’s, Penarth

Monday 9th July, 1.05pm

March on a Theme of Handel – Alexandre Guilmant

Variations on “The harmonious blacksmith”

– George Frederick Handel/Karg-Elert

            Prélude Funèbre – Guy Ropartz

            Scherzo in G minor – Enrico Bossi

            Fantasie iii in C – Camille Saint-Saëns

            Three movements from Rubrics iii, iv, v – Dan Locklair

 

Organ Recital, Bath Abbey

Saturday 8th September, 6.15pm

            Introduction et allegro moderato - Guy Ropartz

            Prélude Funèbre - Guy Ropartz

            Praeludium in F sharp minor - Dietrich Buxtehude

            Evocation a la Chapelle Sixtine - Franz Liszt

            Eine kleine Leipziger Gigue - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

            Rubrics - Dan Locklair

 

“Sunday Worship”, BBC Radio 4

Directing Bath Abbey Choir

Sunday 16th September, 8.05am

            Responses Richard Shephard

            Te Deum Vaughan Williams in G

            Beati quorum via Sir Charles Villiers Stanford

 

Organ Recital, Bath Abbey

Saturday 19th September, 1.05pm

            Introduction et Allegro moderato - Guy Ropartz

            Batalla 6o tono - José Ximenes

            Consolation in D flat– Franz Liszt

            Praeludium in G minor – Dietrich Buxtehude

            Sonata i in F minor - Felix Mendelssohn

 

Celebration Organ Day, Bath Abbey

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Bath Abbey's Klais Organ

Saturday 22nd September, 11.00 am - 8.45 pm

Graeme Kay, Christopher Herrick & Peter King

see Bath Abbey website for further details.

 

Illustrated Talk, St Cuthbert’s Wells

‘Making Music on the Organ’

Saturday 13th October, 2.00pm

See Lecture Text Page and Gallery Page

 

Organ Recital, Siegburg (Germany), St Servatius

Sunday 21st October at 5.00 pm

            Introduction et Allegro moderato - Ropartz

            Praeludium in F sharp minor - Buxtehude

            Adagio in C - Mozart

            Eine kleine Leipziger Gigue - Mozart

            Fantaisie iii in C - Saint-Saëns

            Funérailles - Liszt

            Valse Mignonne - Karg-Elert

            Fantasia in G minor - Bowen

 

Duruflé Requiem, Bath abbey

Sunday, 4th November,at 6.30 pm - Admission Free

Bath Abbey Choir (Girls & Men), Marcus Sealy (Organ), Michael Mace (Cello), Conductor, Peter King

Sung Eucharistfor All Souls' Day

            Requiem Mass - Duruflé

 

Service of Remembrance, Bath Abbey

Sunday 11th November, at 10.50 am - Admission Free

Bath Abbey Choir (Girls & Men), Marcus Sealy (Organ), Peter King (Conductor & Organist)

            Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts - Purcell

            Russian Contakion

            Funeral Ikos - Tavener

            Kyrie (War Requiem) - Britten

            When David heard that Absalon was slain - Weelkes

            Funérailles - Liszt (Organ)

 

Candlelit Advent Procession, Bath Abbey

Sunday 2nd December, at 6.30 pm - Admission (Free) by ticket only, obtainable from Bath Abbey

Bath Abbey Choirs (Boys, Girls & Men), Marcus Sealy (Organ), Peter King (Conductor)

         Music by Richard Marlow, Britten, Sandstrom, J S Bach and others.

 

Christmas Concert, Bath Abbey

Saturday 15th December, at 7.00 pm

Bath Abbey Choir (Boys & Men), Marcus Sealy (Organ), Premiere Brass Quintet, Peter King (Conductor)

Carols for Choir & Audience

Tickets from Bath Festivals Trust Box Office, 2 Lower Church Street,

Abbey Green, BATH, BA1 1NL  Tel 01225 463362

 

Christmas Concert, Bath Abbey

Saturday 22nd December, at 6.30 pm

Bath Abbey Girls' Choir, Ruth Faber (Harp), Marcus Sealy (Organ), Peter King (Conductor)

         Programme includes A Ceremony of Carols - Britten (sung by candlelight)

Tickets from Bath Festivals Trust Box Office, 2 Lower Church Street,

Abbey Green, BATH, BA1 1NL  Tel 01225 463362

 

Service of 9 Lessons and Carols, Bath Abbey

Monday 24th December, at 7.00 pm - Admission (Free) by ticket only, obtainable from Bath Abbey

Bath Abbey Choir (Boys & Men), Marcus Sealy (Organ), Peter King (Conductor)

         Traditional Service of 9 Lessons and Carols

 

2008

 

Organ Recital, Bath Abbey

Saturday, 26th January at 2.00pm

Organ Recital to mark the dedication of 12 carved angels on the Quire Screens (see Gallery). Music by:

                Hymn-Prelude on Darwell's 148th - Whitlock 

                Chorale Prelude Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr - J S Bach

                             BWV 663

                Voluntary on a Flight of Angels (for a musical clock) - Handel

                Ave Maria von Arcadelt - Liszt

                Les Anges (La Nativité du Seigneur) - Messiaen               

                Chorale-Fantasia on Darwell's 148th - Darke

                 

Service of Dedication of Carved Angels, Bath Abbey

Saturday, 26th January at 5.00 pm. Dedication of 12 carved angels on the Quire Screens (see Gallery and Links) by the Very Revd Peter Price, Bishop of Bath & Wells