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Details of

Lunchtime Proms

Saturday Organ Recitals 2008

at 7.00 p.m.

Tickets £6.50 (concessions)

7th June £8 - Bath Festival

Available from Bath Festivals Box Office

 

7th June 2008

DAVID GOODE

(Eton College)

 

Choral Partita on 'Komm, Heiliger Geist'                Matthias Weckmann (1616-1674)

Choral Prelude on 'Vater unser im Himmelreich'                      J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

Diptyque                                                                          Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

Choral No. 3 in A minor                                                        César Franck (1822-1890)

Ave Maria  Scherzo in A                                                           Max Reger (1873-1916)

Pavane                                                                                Robert Elmore (1913-1985)

Variations on 'America'                                                          Charles Ives (1874-1954)

                             

 

5th July

MARCUS SEALY

Sub Organist, Bath Abbey

 

Sinfonia (Cantata 29)                                                                                      J S Bach

Holsworthy Bells                                                                                          S S Wesley

Prelude & Fugue in A minor (543)                                                                   J S Bach

Andante in D                                                                                                      Hollins

Concert Overture in C major                                                                              Hollins

Salamanca                                                                                                            Bovet

Hamburg                                                                                                               Bovet

Serenade                                                                                                        Bourgeois

Carillon de Westminster                                                                                      Vierne

 

 

12th July

ROBERT HOUSSART

Acting Director of Music, Bath Abbey

 

Troïka (from Lieutenant Kijé Suite), arr.Houssart                             Sergei Prokofiev

Messe de la Pentecôte                                                                         Olivier Messiaen

i. Entrée (Les langues de feu)

ii. Offertoire (Les choses visibles et invisibles)

iii. Consécration (Le don de Sagesse)

iv. Communion (Les oiseaux et les sources)

v. Sortie (Le vent de l’Esprit)

Hungarian Rock                                                                                       György Ligeti

Pictures at an Exhibition, arr. Keith John                                     Modest Mussorgsky

 

 

 

19th July

JAMES VIVIAN

The Temple Church

 

Victimae Paschali                                                    Charles Tournemire (1870 -1939)

              arr.Maurice Duruflé (1902 – 1986)              

Poème Symphonique “Evocation”, op. 37                        Marcel Dupré (1886 – 1971)

              Moderato – adagio con tenerezza – allegro deciso                                                      

Psalm-Prelude, set two, number 1                                                     Herbert Howells

Allegro Maestoso                                                                              Sir Basil Harwood

Chorale Prelude: O wie selig                                           Franz Schmidt (1874 - 1939)     

Le Cygne                                                                                        Camille Saint-Saens

Songs from the Operettas                                                           (Gilbert and) Sullivan

 

 

 

26th July

MATTHIAS JACOB

Potsdam, Germany

 

Subtilité des Corps glorieux                                         Olivier Messiaen (1908 – 1992)

        (from Les Corps glorieux – 1939)           

Prélude, Fugue et Variation h-Moll  op. 18                        César Franck (1822 – 1890)

Combat de la mort et de la vie (from Les Corps glorieux)                  Olivier Messiaen

Pièce Héroique                                                                                           César Franck

Joie et clarté des Corps glorieux (from Les Corps glorieux)              Olivier Messiaen

Phantasie über den Choral                                                    Max Reger (1873 – 1916)

       "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"  op. 52,ii 

 

 

 

2nd August

ARNO HARTMANN

Bochum, Germany

 

 

Suite du premier ton (1993)                                                      Denis Bédard (*1950)

              Plein Jeu             

              Dialogue

              Récit

              Grand Jeu

Jesus bleibet meine Freude  BWV 147             Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)

              (Transcription: Maurice Duruflé) 

Intermède (1894)                                                 Joseph-Guy Ropartz (1864 – 1955)

Ricercare (1984)                                                      Gian Carlo Menotti (1911 – 2007)

Salve Regina (2004)                                                                      Naji Hakim (*1955)

Grande Pièce Symphonique op. 17                                   César Franck (1822 – 1890)

Andantino serioso - Allegro non troppo e maestoso – Andante – Allegro –  Andante – Allegro non troppo e maestoso - Beaucoup plus largement que précédemment

 

 

 

9th August

SARAH BALDOCK

Chichester Cathedral

 

Grand Choeur Dialogué                                                                        Eugène Gigout

Tièrce en taille (from Livre d’Orgue)                                               Nicolas de Grigny

Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C BWV564                                                     J.S. Bach

Introduction & Passacaglia in D minor                                                      Max Reger

Trois Pièces:                                                                                             Jehan Alain

              Variations sur un thème de Clément Jannequin

              Le Jardin suspendu

              Litanies

Scherzo Op 2                                                                                      Maurice Duruflé

Imperial March Op 32                                                                             Edward Elgar

              arr. George Martin

 

 

 

16th August

MARK SWINTON

Assistant Organist, Bath Abbey

 

Four Short Preludes (from Set One)* arr. Mark Swinton    Charles Villiers Stanford

No. 1 in F, No. 3 in E flat, No. 2 in G minor, No. 6 in E flat "On an old Irish Melody"

Three Resurrection Dances                                                                      Alan Ridout

Mystery Sonata No.1 The Annunciation*                                             Heinrich Biber

Benedictus*                                                                              William Lloyd Webber

Toccata, Chorale and Fugue                                                               Francis Jackson

The Lark Ascending*                                                            Ralph Vaughan Williams

 

 

 

23rd August

STEPHEN FARR

St Paul’s Knightsbridge,

 

An Occasional Trumpet Voluntary                                                     Patrick Gowers

Piece d’orgue BWV 572                                                                                 J S Bach

Variations sur le lucis Creator                                                                  Jehan Alain

Suite du Second Ton                                                                                  J-A Guilain

               Prélude - Tierce en Taille - Duo - Basse de Trompette - Trio de Flûtes -

               Dialogue - Petit Plein Jeu

Prélude, Fugue et Variation                                                                   César Franck

Verset pour la fête de la Dedicace                                                   Olivier Messiaen

Fête                                                                                                       Jean Langlais

 

 

 

30th August 2008

by

COLIN  WALSH

(Lincoln Cathedral)

 

Prélude (Suite op 5)                                                                        Maurice Duruflé

Choral variations on Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig                   Johann Sebastian Bach

Adagio and Allegro in F minor  K594                            Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Final in B flat                                                                                        César Franck

Rhapsody No 1 in D flat                                                                  Herbert Howells

Prélude et Danse Fuguée                                                                  Gaston Litaize

 

 

 

6th September

CHRISTOPH SCHOENER

St Michaelis, Hamburg

 

Fantasia and Fugue in g-Moll BWV 542                                                    J S Bach

Chorale Prelude (Schübler) “Wachet auf, BWV 645”                               J S Bach

Präludium und Fuge in g-moll op. posth.                                                   Brahms

Thema mit Variationen in D                                                              Mendelssohn

Legend “St. Francois de Paule marchant sur les flots”                                  Liszt

Sonata on the 94th Psalm                                                                          Reubke

 

 

 

13th September

PETER KING

Bath Abbey

 

Les Cloches                                                Nicolas-Antoine Lebègue (c1631-1702)

Toccata in F                                                           Diderik Buxtehude (1637-1707)

3 Chorale Preludes                                         Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

              “In dir ist Freude”  BWV615             

              “Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr”  BWV663

              “Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn” BWV630      

Funérailles (transcribed, Nicolas Kynaston)                     Ferenc Liszt (1811-1886)

Consolation in D flat                                                          Ferenc Liszt (1811-1886)

Valse Mignonne  (Three New Impressions Op 142) Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)

Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue                               Healy Willan (1880-1968)

            

 

 


 

Pictures of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under François-Xavier Roth (Conductor) with Peter King (Organ) recording Poulenc’s Organ Concerto – 3rd January 2007. The CD is available along with performances of Respighi’s Suite for Strings and Organ (recorded 4th January) and Rheinberger’s 1st Organ Concerto (recorded 5th January).