Sunday 7th May 2006

Daniel Cook - Salisbury Cathedral

Introduction and Passacaglia- Walter Alcock
Scherzo in A flat - Edward C. Bairstow
Fantasie Choral No 1 in D Flat- Percy Whitlock
Gaudeamus in loci pace - James Macmillan
Fantasia and Toccata - C. V.Stanford
Symphonie No. 1 in D minor- Louis Vierne

Sunday 4th June 2006

Donald MacKenzie - The Odeon, Leicester Square

Music from La Belle Epoque

‘Morning, Noon & Night in Vienna’ Overture - Franz von Suppé
Bahn Frei (Line Clear) – Polka - Eduard Strauss
Under the Linden Tree - Hugo Felix
Johann Strauss, the Waltz King - arr Donald MacKenzie
Slavonic Dance no. X in E Minor - Anton Dvorak
Tik Tak Polka - Johann Strauss (II)
Play Gypsy Play (Czardas from Countess Maritza) - Emmerich Kalmann
Thunder and Lightning Polka - Johann Strauss (II)
Polka from Schwanda the Bagpiper - Jaromir Weinberger
Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman - Jacques Offenbach
Hungarian Dance No VII in F - Johannes Brahms
The Grasshopper's Dance - Ernesto Bucalossi
Music from the Merry Widow - Franz Lehár
Music from the film 'The Third Man' - Anton Karas
The Blue Danube - Johann Strauss (II)
Vienna for Aye – March - Joseph Schrammel

Sunday 25th June 2006

Simon Thomas Jacobs - Oundle award winner

Henry V Suite - William Walton (arr R Gower & HG Ley)
Evensong - Easthope Martin
Plymouth Suite - Percy Whitlock
Plein Jeu – Premier couplet de Kyrie (Messe pour les convents) - François Couperin
Suite Carmelite - Jean Françaix
Clair de Lune (Pieces de Fantasie) - Louis Vierne
Allegro (Symphonie No 6 en sol mineur) - Charles-Marie Widor

Sunday 6th August 2006

Adrian Partington - Hereford

Prelude & Fugue in E Flat major, BWV552 - J S Bach
Fantasia in four parts - Orlando Gibbons
Sonata in C sharp minor - Basil Harwood
Prelude & Fugue in C major - Camille Saint-Saëns
The Rose of Jerusalem - Geraint Lewis
Variations sur un Noël - Marcel Dupré
On a Spring Note - Sidney Torch

Sunday 3rd September 2006

James Parsons - Oundle

Fugue à la gigue, BWV 577 - J S Bach
Adagio - Tommaso Albinoni (arr. Giazotto)
Etheldreda Rag - Arthur Wills
Farewell to Stromness - Peter Maxwell Davies
Fantasia on BACH - Ferencz Liszt
Tu es Petra - Henri Mulet
Romance sans paroles - Joseph Bonnet
The Swan - Camille Saint-Saëns (arr. Guilmant)
Sonata Eroica - Joseph Jongen

Sunday 1st October 2006

David Butterworth - Nottingham (Binns Organ Custodian)

Prelude & Fugue in G Minor - Diderik Buxtehude
Sonata in F major - C P E Bach
Sonata no 3 - August Gottfried Ritter
Prelude & Fugue in B Minor, BWV 544 - J S Bach
O Mensch bewein' dein' Sünde gross, BWV 622 - J S Bach
Choral No 3 in A Minor - César Franck

David Butterworth makes a welcome return to the console of the Albert Hall organ, where he is the custodian. He served as consultant during its total restoration of 1993-94 and since then has remained responsible not only for its upkeep but for the recitals given on it each year. In 1973 he was responsible for the installation of two mould-breaking organs in Nottingham, by the Danish firm of Marcussen, and appropriately he begins with music by the Great Dane from whom it can be said that all modern organ music springs. We proceed stepwise then through two sonatas, a classical one by Bach's most famous son and then a romantic one by a later German, August Gottfried Ritter, friend of the Reubke family (composer and organ-builders. In part two we hear from the Great Master, first in vigorous formal mood and then in romantic religious mood, a perfect lead-in to the swan-song of the devout César Franck: or was he?

Sunday 29th October 2006

David Hill - Cambridge

Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582 - J S Bach
Nimrod, Chanson du Matin - Edward Elgar
Rhapsody No 3 - Herbert Howells
Scherzetto, Carillon de Westminster - Louis Vierne
Pastorale - César Franck
Adagio in d minor - W A Mozart
Mozart Changes - Zsolt Gárdonyi
Postlude in D Minor - C V Stanford
Partita 'Awake my Heart in Gladness' - Flor Peeters
Sortie in E flat - Léfébure-Wély

David Hill was organist at Westminster Cathedral and then at Winchester Cathedral before his recent move to St John's College Cambridge; he is also conductor of The Bach Choir, while he conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the four-organist gala to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of the organ in the Royal Festival Hall. He pays appropriate homage to Bach and then to Mozart (in his anniversary year) before he ensures that Mozart most certainly changes. As befits a Cambridge man he pays homage to Stanford (at Trinity) and Howells, his own wartime predecessor at St John's who is represented by a piece composed during an air-raid. Only hours after he had played the organ at Trinity College, Louis Vierne was at the console of the new organ in Westminster Cathedral, an association commemorated in his celebrated piece based on the Westminster chimes. The 1978 visit to the Albert Hall by Flor Peeters is recalled with his partita on the hymn "Awake My Heart In Gladness", and while The Da Vinci Code may feature a murder in the organ-loft at St-Sulpice, David Hill ends his reciital with a composer who got away with murder in that very place.

Programme notes by Ian Wells.

Other events

Young Organists' Open Day

Saturday 14th May 2006

Starting at 2.30pm. A chance for young musicians to hear and play the Albert Hall Binns organ. This is a unique opportunity at the Albert Hall for young organists, pianists and keyboard players of all levels to take part in the Binns Organ Restoration Fund's 8th annual Young Organists’ Open Day.
Everyone - teachers and supporters, friends and families, who would like to hear the organ played, is welcome. Admission is free.
The Open Day is promoted by the Fund to encourage young organists and to introduce one of the City of Nottingham's important musical assets to younger audiences. Every young player who takes part will receive a Certificate of Achievement to remind them of the occasion. This is not a music competition, simply an opportunity for young people to play this instrument and for anyone to come and hear them.

Events in previous years

• Events in 2005
• Events in 2004
• Events in 2003

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