Concert archive

  • Organ Recital

    Date: Friday 17th November 2023
    Time: 6:45pm
    Venue: St Gabriel's Pimlico
    Prelude and Fugue in E flat ‘St Anne’ BWV 552 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
    O, wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen Franz Schmidt (1874–1939)
    Allegro, Chorale and Fugue Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847)
    Fantasie Choral No. 1 in D flat major Percy Whitlock (1903–1946)
    Valse mignonne Op. 142 No. 2 Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877–1933)
    Sonata on the 94th Psalm Julius Reubke (1834–1858)
  • John Rutter – Magnificat & Requiem

    Date: Saturday 11th November 2023
    Time: 7:30pm
    Venue: St Albans Cathedral

    St Albans Bach Choir
    Andrew Lucas and John Rutter conductors
    Lucinda Cox soprano
    Sinfonia Verdi

    Tickets: £30, £25, £20, £15, £12
    No view seats will only be released when seats with views have sold out.

    Concessions: Children under 16 £12, Students (full time) with ID £12. Not available for Premium seats.

  • Duruflé Requiem with City Chamber Choir

    Date: Tuesday 31st October 2023
    Time: 7:00pm
    Venue: Our Lady of Victories

    City Chamber Choir
    Stephen Jones conductor
    Richard Pinel organ
    Aino Konkka mezzo soprano
    Mirjam James cello

    City Chamber Choir’s opening concert of the season features Duruflé’s sublime Requiem, and as well as the luminous choral writing, will showcase Our Lady of Victory’s glorious new Grand Organ. The rest of the programme includes music by Messiaen, his celebrated O sacrum convivium, Poulenc’s heartfelt Salve Regina, and sumptuous motets by Villette. Completing the programme, organist Richard Pinel will showcase the Skrabl Grand Organ with solos drawn from the French Romantic Organ repertoire.

    Duruflé Requiem | Villette Tu es Petrus; Three motets | Poulenc Salve Regina | Alain Chanson à bouche fermée | Messiaen O sacrum convivium

    Tickets: £15.00 (£10.00 full time students only; under-12 free)
    Buy online from www.ticketsource.co.uk/city-chamber-choir or at the door

  • Lunchtime Recital

    Date: Wednesday 4th October 2023
    Time: 1:10pm
    Venue: St Michael's Church

    Hymne d’Actions de grâces «Te Deum» Op. 5 No. 3 Jean Langlais (1907–1991)
    Psalm Prelude Set One No. 2 Herbert Howells (1892–1983)
    Menuet sur le Nom d’Haydn Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) arr. Simon Johnson
    Symphonie No. 3 Op. 28 Louis Vierne (1870–1937)
    i. Allegro Maestoso
    ii. Cantillène
    iii. Intermezzo
    iv. Adagio
    v. Final

  • Lunchtime Recital

    Date: Friday 8th September 2023
    Time: 1:10pm
    Venue: Truro Cathedral

    Flourish for an occasion William Harris (1883-1973)
    At the Ballet from Five Dances for Organ Calvin Hampton (1938-1984)
    Symphonie No. 3 Op. 28 Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
    i. Allegro Maestoso
    ii. Cantillène
    iii. Intermezzo
    iv. Adagio
    v. Final

    You can also watch this recital on YouTube.

  • Evening Recital

    Date: Wednesday 30th August 2023
    Time: 7:30pm
    Venue: Durham Cathedral

    Allegro, Chorale and Fugue Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
    Prélude, Fugue et Variation Op. 18 César Franck (1822-1890)
    Fantasia Op. 136 York Bowen (1884-1961)
    from Five Dances for Organ Calvin Hampton (1938-1984)
    i. The Primitives ii. At the Ballet iii. Those Americans
    Valse mignonne Op. 142 No. 2 Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)
    from Symphonie No. 6 Op. 59 Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
    ii. Aria v. Final

    Tickets are £12 | £10 concessions | £0 Under-16s

  • Lunchtime Recital

    Date: Friday 25th August 2023
    Time: 12:45pm
    Venue: Antwerp Cathedral

    Allegro, Chorale and Fugue Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
    Symphonie No. 3 Op. 28 Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
    i. Allegro Maestoso
    ii. Cantillène
    iii. Intermezzo
    iv. Adagio
    v. Final

  • Song and Dance

    Date: Sunday 20th August 2023
    Time: 4:00pm
    Venue: Magdeburg Cathedral

    Capriol Suite Peter Warlock (1894-1930) arr. Malcolm Rudland

    i. Basse-Danse ii. Pavane iii. Tordion iv. Bransles v. Pieds-en-l’air vi. Mattachins (Sword Dance)
    Menuet sur le Nom d’Haydn Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) arr. Simon Johnson
    from Five Dances for Organ Calvin Hampton (1938-1984)
    i. The Primitives ii. At the Ballet iii. Those Americans
    Lullaby Grayston Ives (b. 1948)
    Valse mignonne Op. 142 No. 2 Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)
    from Symphonie No. 6 Op. 59 Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
    ii. Aria v. Final

  • Late Afternoon Recital

    Date: Wednesday 9th August 2023
    Time: 5:00pm
    Venue: Cathedral Saint-Etienne

    Allegro, Chorale and Fugue Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
    O, wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen Franz Schmidt (1874-1939)
    Valse mignonne Op. 142 No. 2 Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)
    Symphonie No. 3 Op. 28 Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
    i. Allegro Maestoso
    ii. Cantillène
    iii. Intermezzo
    iv. Adagio
    v. Final

    Free admission

  • Afternoon Recital

    Date: Sunday 16th July 2023
    Time: 3:00pm
    Venue: Himmerod Abbey

    Flourish for an occasion William Harris (1883-1973)
    Romance in B flat William McKie (1901-1984)
    Fantasie Choral No. 1 in D flat major Percy Whitlock (1903-1946)
    Menuet sur le Nom d’Haydn Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) arr. Simon Johnson
    Scherzetto from Sonata in C minor Percy Whitlock (1903–1946)
    Valse mignonne Op. 142 No. 2 Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)
    Symphonie No. 3 Op. 28 Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
    i. Allegro Maestoso
    ii. Cantillène
    iii. Intermezzo
    iv. Adagio
    v. Final

  • Organ Festival 2023

    Date: Saturday 17th June 2023
    Time: 5:00pm
    Venue: St Peter's Collegiate Church

    Following the completion of the restoration of the 1860 Father Willis organ in 2019, St Peter’s Collegiate Church presents an organ concert series, with three recitals by leading organists in the UK.

    Sonata in C minor Percy Whitlock (1903-1946)
    iii. Grave – Animato
    iv. Canzona
    v. Scherzetto
    vi. Choral

    Valse mignonne Op. 142 No. 2 Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)
    Final (Symphonie No. 6 Op. 59) Louis Vierne (1870-1937)

    Tickets £10 / Season tickets £25 / U18s FREE (though these must also be booked)

  • Lunchtime Recital

    Date: Wednesday 24th May 2023
    Time: 1:15pm
    Venue: Westminster Cathedral

    Allegro, Chorale and Fugue Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
    Valse mignonne Op. 142 No. 2 Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)
    from Symphonie No. 6 Op. 59 Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
    ii. Aria v. Final

  • Symphonie-Passion Op. 23 at Temple Church

    Date: Tuesday 4th April 2023
    Time: 1:00pm
    Venue: Temple Church

    Symphonie-Passion Op. 23 Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
    i. Le monde dans l’attent du Sauveur
    ii. Nativité
    iii. Crucifixion
    iv. Résurrection

    with Grace Davidson soprano

  • Symphonie-Passion Op. 23

    Date: Thursday 30th March 2023
    Time: 1:10pm
    Venue: All Saints' Church

    Symphonie-Passion Op. 23 Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
    i. Le monde dans l’attent du Sauveur
    ii. Nativité
    iii. Crucifixion
    iv. Résurrection

  • Jesu, meine Freude (with the Lea Singers)

    Date: Saturday 18th March 2023
    Time: 8:00pm
    Venue: St Albans Abbey

    Jesu, meine Freude J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
    Concerto 32: Lord, Make Me to Know My End Dmitry Bortniansky (1751-1825)
    Prayers of Kierkegaard Knut Nystedt (1915-2014)
    Mother and Child John Tavener (1944-2013)


    Lea Singers
    Benjamin Kirk conductor
    Richard Pinel organ
    Christopher Burrett Hindu temple gong

  • Compline

    Date: Tuesday 7th March 2023
    Time: 9:00pm
    Venue: Rugby School Chapel

    Service of compline including Marcel Dupré’s Symphonie-Passion Op. 23

    Symphonie-Passion Op. 23 Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
    i. Le monde dans l’attent du Sauveur
    ii. Nativité
    iii. Crucifixion
    iv. Résurrection

  • Lunchtime Recital

    Date: Thursday 2nd March 2023
    Time: 12:30pm
    Venue: Christchurch Priory

    Fantasia Op. 136 York Bowen (1884-1961)
    Fantasie Choral No. 1 in D flat major Percy Whitlock (1903-1946)
    Chanson de Matin Op. 15 No. 2 Edward Elgar (1857-1932) arr. H Brewer
    Résurrection Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
    from Symphonie-Passion Op. 23


    Free admission; retiring collection

  • Lunchtime Recital

    Date: Wednesday 8th February 2023
    Time: 1:10pm
  • Lunchtime Recital

    Date: Thursday 12th January 2023
    Time: 1:05pm
    Venue: Wells Cathedral

    Programme:

    Fantasia Op. 136 York Bowen (1884-1961)
    Prelude, Fugue & Variation Op. 18 Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
    from Troisième Symphonie Op. 28 Louis Vierne (1870–1937)
    iv. Adagio v. Final

     

  • Concert with BBC Singers (prerecorded)

    Date: Sunday 18th December 2022
    Time: 10:00pm
    Venue: BBC Radio 3

    The BBC Singers present a programme of music for the season of Advent, including the world premiere of a new setting by Judith Bingham of one of the Advent ‘O Antiphons’ – the Magnificat antiphons used at vespers on the last seven days of Advent. Commissioned by the BBC to mark Judith Bingham’s 70th birthday, the programme predominately features music by women composers thematically linked to the season of advent.

    Judith Weir Drop down ye heavens
    Byrd Rorate caeli
    Margaret Rizza Ave Generosa
    Joanna Marsh In Winter’s House
    Bob Chilcott The Pear-Tree Carol
    Kerensa Briggs A tender shoot
    Judith Bingham O Oriens
    Hildegard von Bingen O Frondens virga
    Owain Park O magnum mysterium
    Eriks Ešenvalds O Emmanuel
    Alison Willis There is no rose
    Cecilia McDowall Now may we singen

    BBC Singers
    Owain Park, conductor
    Richard Pinel, organ

  • Lunchtime Recital

    Date: Saturday 10th December 2022
    Time: 12:30pm
    Venue: The Church of the Most Precious Blood

    Programme:

    Prelude and Fugue in G BWV 541 J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
    Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 659 J.S. Bach
    Sonata in C minor Percy Whitlock (1903–1946)
    ii. Canzona iii. Scherzetto
    Pièce Héroïque César Franck (1822–1890)
    from Five Pieces for Organ Healey Willan (1880–1968)
    Fanfare – Intermezzo – Finale Jubilante
    from Troisième Symphonie Op. 28 Louis Vierne (1870–1937)
    iv. Adagio v. Final

  • St George’s Organ Vespers

    Date: Saturday 5th November 2022
    Time: 6:00pm
    Venue: St George's German Lutheran Church

    Programme:

    Sonata in E flat minor Op. 119 Josef Rheinberger (1838–1901)
    i. Prelude ii. Intermezzo iii. Marcia Religiosa iv. Fuga

    O, wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen Franz Schmidt (1874–1939)
    Allegro, Chorale and Fugue Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)

  • Late Night, Candlelit Recital

    Date: Wednesday 26th October 2022
    Time: 9:00pm
    Venue: The Most Holy Name of Jesus

    Programme:

    Praeludium in G minor BuxWV 149 Dieterich Buxtehude (c.1637 – 1707)

    Trio Sonata in C BWV 529 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
    i. Allegro ii. Largo iii. Allegro

    A Fancy William Byrd (1539/40 – 1623)

    Allegro, Chorale and Fugue Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847)

    from Le Tombeau de Titelouze Marcel Dupré (1886 – 1971)
    ix. Vexilla Regis v. Te lucis ante terminum xvi. Placare Christe Servulis

  • Afternoon Recital

    Date: Sunday 16th October 2022
    Time: 2:30pm
    Venue: King's College Chapel

    Programme:

    Allegro, Chorale and Fugue Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847)

    from The Orgelbüchlein Project:
    Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid Peter Shepherd, William Whitehead and Timothy Byram-Wigfield
    Wohl dem, der in Gottes Furcht steht Simon Johnson (b. 1975)

    Fantasie Choral No. 1 in D flat major Percy Whitlock (1903 – 1946)
    Introduction, Toccata and Fugue Francis Pott (b. 1957)

  • Salisbury 2022 Organ Festival

    Date: Saturday 17th September 2022
    Time: 7:00pm
    Venue: Salisbury Cathedral

    Programme:

    Allegro, Chorale and Fugue Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847)
    Sonata in C minor Percy Whitlock (1903 – 1946)
    Introduction, Toccata and Fugue Francis Pott (b. 1957)

    Part of a year-long festival to celebrate the restoration of Salisbury Cathedral’s renowned organ.

  • Evening Recital

    Date: Tuesday 16th August 2022
    Time: 8:00pm
    Venue: Sint-Janskathedraal

    Programme:

    Praeludium in G minor (BuxWV 149) Dieterich Buxtehude (ca. 1637 – 1707)
    A Fancy William Byrd (1539/40 – 1623)
    Allegro, Chorale and Fugue Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847)
    Prelude, Fugue & Variation Op. 18 César Franck (1822 – 1890)
    Wohl dem, der in Gottes Furcht steht Simon Johnson (*1975)
    Sonata in C minor Percy William Whitlock (1903 – 1946)
    ii. Canzona
    Triptyque Jean Langlais (1907 – 1991)
    i. Melody ii. Trio iii. Finale

     

  • Evening Recital

    Date: Monday 15th August 2022
    Time: 5:00pm
    Venue: Kathedrale Basiliek Sint-Bavo (KoepelKathedraal)

    Programme:

    Praeludium in G minor BuxWV 149 Dieterich Buxtehude (c.1637 – 1707)
    Prelude, Fugue & Variation Op. 18 César Franck (1822 – 1890)
    Paraphrase-Carillon (L’orgue mystique: Office 35, In Assump. BMV) Charles Tournemire (1870–1939)
    Sonata in C minor Percy Whitlock (1903 – 1946)
    iv. Canzona
    Wohl dem, der in Gottes Furcht steht Simon Johnson (b. 1975)
    Triptyque Jean Langlais (1907 – 1991)
    i. Melody  ii. Trio  iii. Finale

  • Afternoon Recital

    Date: Sunday 14th August 2022
    Time: 4:00pm
    Venue: De Duif

    Programme:

    Praeludium in G minor BuxWV 149 Dieterich Buxtehude (c.1637 – 1707)
    A Fancy William Byrd (1539/40 – 1623)
    Allegro, Chorale and Fugue Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847)
    Prelude, Fugue & Variation Op. 18 César Franck (1822 – 1890)
    Sonata in C minor Percy Whitlock (1903 – 1946)
    ii. Canzona iii. Scherzetto
    Choral No. 3 in A minor César Franck

  • Cheese Market Concert

    Date: Friday 12th August 2022
    Time: 12:00pm
    Venue: Grote Kerk Alkmaar

    Programme:

    on the Van Covelens Organ
    Balletto del Granduca Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 – 1621)
    A Fancy William Byrd (1539/40 – 1623)
    on the Van Hagerbeer/Schnitgerorgel
    Praeludium in G minor BuxWV 149 Dieterich Buxtehude (c.1637 – 1707)
    Wohl dem, der in Gottes Furcht steht Simon Johnson (b. 1975)
    Allegro, Chorale and Fugue in D Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847)

  • Lunchtime Recital

    Date: Monday 6th June 2022
    Time: 12:30pm
    Venue: Coventry Cathedral

    Programme:

    Choral No. 3 in A minor César Franck
    Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier Matthew Martin
    Triptyque Jean Langlais

  • Free Lunchtime Organ Recital

    Date: Friday 3rd June 2022
    Time: 1:00pm
    Venue: Emmanuel Church

    Programme:

    Choral No. 3 in A minor César Franck
    Wohl dem, der in Gottes Furcht steht Simon Johnson
    Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid Peter Shepherd, William Whitehead and Timothy Byram-Wigfield
    Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier Matthew Martin
    Fantasie Choral No. 1 in D flat major Percy Whitlock
    Toccata from Suite Op. 5 Maurice Duruflé

  • Organ Recital

    Date: Friday 4th March 2022
    Time: 5:30pm
    Venue: Mansfield College Chapel

    Richard Pinel performs at Mansfield College Chapel. A celebratory recital to inaugurate the College’s famous and newly restored organ.

    This is a free event, open to all, though limited seating is available. Please book early to avoid disappointment.

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