Grosvenor Chapel
LUNCHTIME CONCERTS 2009
Tuesday 8 December 8th 1.10pm
Christopher Nickol
plays the 1991 William Drake organ
HANDEL: Overture “Radamisto”
BACH: Andante from Trio Sonata no.4 BWV 528
SWEELINCK: Balletto del granduca
STANLEY: Voluntary in C major
HAYDN: Pieces for musical clock
MENDELSSOHN: Sonata no.4 in Bb major Op.65 no.4
Admission free, retiring collection
Grosvenor Chapel
South Audley Street
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Bloomsbury Baptist Church
Saturday 31 October 4pm
James Devor plays a programme of music by Demessieux, Bach, Buxtehude, Dupre, Ad Wammes, Bovet and Vierne.
Admission free. Buffet tea to follow
For more information phone: 020 7240 0544
or go to: www.bloomsbury.org.uk
Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 235 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8EP
The organ amalgamates two redundant Binns instruments: Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Watford and St Augustine’s Tonge Moor, Bolton.
A small amount of non-Binns pipework has been retained.
The imaginative scheme has been carried out by B.C. Shepherd and Sons in collaboration with J.H. Males.
Details of the organ on the NPOR at:
http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=P00257
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Croydon Parish Church
Saturday 31 October 2009 7pm
Benefit Concert for Friends of Music at Croydon Parish Church by Jay Britton (soprano)
Retiring Collection and refreshments at end of concert
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Orchestral Concert
St John the Evangelist, Sylvan Road/Auckland Road, Upper Norwood, London SE19 2RX
Sunday 1st November 7pm ( after Evensong at 6pm, Stanford in C, Bullock, Give us the wings of faith)
St Bartholomew’s Orchestra with Linda Lin- ‘cello
Alexander Koshelev - Conductor
Programme includes: Overture ‘Cosi fan Tutti’ by Mozart, Concerto for ‘cello & orchestra by Elgar and Symphony No.1 by Beethoven
£10 & £6 concessions. Accompanied children free; all proceeds to church funds
Details: Adrian Adams 020 8653 3305 adrian.adams@ukonline.co.uk
Travelling to St John’s: Route 410 from Crystal Palace or Norwood Junction stops by the church and near the stations. Numerous buses go to Crystal Palace Parade. There is plenty of on street parking and a church car park. By train to Crystal Palace station from London Victoria; West Croydon, Norwood Junction.
For further details and how to get to St John’s, please visit our website: www.stjohn-uppernorwood.org.uk
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Phantom of the Opera, Silent Movie with organ improvisation
by David Briggs
Friday 6 November 2009 7.30pm
The Chapel
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham Hill, EGHAM, TW20 0EX
Tickets: £10 (£8 senior citizens, £5 staff, free to students)
Available from the Concerts Office: 01784 443 853
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Organ Recital at Helpringham, Lincolnshire
Friday 6 November 7.30pm
David Shepherd, organist of St Botoloph’s, Boston, plays a light programme on the historic Forster and Andrews organ.
Tickets £5, including light refreshments available on the door or from the organist Peter Page phone 01778 393 031 or email p.e. page@btinternet.com
Sat Nav instructions NG34 0RA; on the B1394, Helpringham High Street.
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THE INTERNATIONAL ORGAN FESTIVAL AT ST ALBANS
ST ALBANS CATHEDRAL
Saturday 7 November 2009 5.30pm
Helmut Deutsch is particularly renowned for his performances of the nineteenth-century repertoire, especially his own transcriptions of great piano and orchestral works, many of which he has recorded. A prize-winner at a number of international organ competitions, he performs in concerts throughout Europe and Asia and is a Professor of Organ at the University of Music at Freiburg, Germany.
Programme: Mendelssohn Sonata no 1 in F minor, Bach Piece d’Orgue BWV 572, Mozart Fantasia in F minor KV 608, Bach Chorale Prelude on Nun komm der Heiden Heiland BWV 659, Liszt Apres un lecture de Dante-Fantasia quasi Sonata.
Entrance free; retiring collection in aid of the International Organ Festival Society
Please visit www.organfestival.com for full details of all concerts in the series.
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Penge Congregational Church
172 High Street, Penge, SE 20
We invite you to a party to celebrate our Centenary Recording of Organ Music
Sunday November 22 2009 3pm
A brief recital will be followed by tea and the opportunity for visiting organists to play the Lewis organ. Copies of the CD will be available.
Music by Bach, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Dubois and others
Organists: Martin Ball, Robert Cooper, John Webber,
and Marilyn Nicholson
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St John the Evangelist
Auckland Road/Sylvan Road
Upper Norwood London SE19 2RX
Organ Concert
on the Lewis Organ
Adrian Adams
Sunday 22nd November 4pm
Admission £5
Details: Adrian Adams 020 8653 3305 adrian.adams@ukonline.co.uk
www.stjohn-uppernorwood.org.uk
PROGRAMME
Henry Purcell [1659-95]
arr. Osborne Peasgood
Trumpet Tunes and Airs
G. F. Handel [1685-1759]
(arr. Revd Dr George Sydenham Holmes)
Organ concerto in B flat major, op. 4 no 2
Allegro - Largo - Allegro Moderato
Josef Haydn [1732-1809]
Pieces for Mechanical Clocks
Felix Mendelssohn [1809-47]
Sonata No. 6
Kenneth LEIGHTON [1929-88]
Fanfare
Sidney Campbell [1909-1974]
Canterbury Improvisation
Basil Harwood [1859-1949]
Paean
Recitals 2010
Saturday 22 May 6.30pm - Richard Hobson [Grosvenor Chapel]
Saturday 12 June 6.30pm - Huw Morgan [St Laurence, Catford]
Saturday 17 July 6.30pm - Michael Bonaventure [All Saints, Blackheath]
Saturday 18 September 6.30pm - Matthew Martin [ Westminster Cathedral]
Saturday 16 October 6.30pm - Martin Baker [ Westminster Cathedral]
Sunday 21 November 4pm - Adrian Adams [ St John’s ]
This year is the 10th anniversary of the Harrison & Harrison rebuild and the organ sounds as wonderful as ever. If you have not heard it, you should, and if you have please come and hear it again. Everyone is welcome and if you do come please make yourself known to me if we have not met before. I hope to see you on Sunday.
Travelling to St John’s : by train to Crystal Palace station from London Victoria or West Croydon, or from London Bridge to Norwood Junction and take bus 410 towards Crystal Palace . Plenty of buses go to Crystal Palace Parade and route 410 stops by the church and by the station. There is plenty of on street parking and a church car park.
For further details and how to get to St John’s , please visit our website:
www.stjohn-uppernorwood.org.uk
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Saturday 21 November 2009, 7.30pm
Annual St Cecilia Concert: A Choral Fanfare
The Choirs of Croydon Parish Church
Directed by Andrew Cantrill
Martin How, Douglas Tang, Matthew Greenfield & Sophie Winter (organ),
with musicians from Whitgift School
Tickets £5.00 (children Free)
Refreshments available
Programme to include:
Wilberg, Cantus in harmonia (to St Cecilia)
Kodaly, Missa Brevis (Kyrie)
Whitacre, This Marriage
Wilberg, Be thou my vision
Dvorak, Mass in D (Gloria)
Tavener, The Lamb
Nydstedt, Immortal Bach
Vierne, Messe Solonnelle (Sanctus)
Tavener, A Song for Athene
Chilcott, A Little Jazz Mass (Agnus)
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Sunday 13 December 2009 5.15pm
Michael Bonaventure
All Saints’ Blackheath
Contemporary Music by Patterson, Crane , Gorecki, Cawkwell.
Admission Free, retiring collection
Buses 53, 54, 89, 109, 202, 380, 386. Trains from London Bridge, Charing Cross and Cannon Street.
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LAMBERT CHAUMONT c 1630- 23 April 1712
Born possibly in Liège (third largest city in Belgium, approximately 55-60 miles east-south-east of Brussels on the Meuse River, and home to Georges Simenon, author of Maigret) in the Région Wallonne, Chaumont was a composer and priest. He was a lay brother at the Carmelite monastery, one of nine lay brothers who had completed their novitiates at Rheims. He referred to himself as ‘Frère Lambert de St Théodore’. His music shows a decidedly French style when other musicians at Liège were looking to Italy for inspiration. (The Liège City website says that the town feels more French than Dutch.) Chaumont was nominated to be Rector of the tiny parish of St Martin at Huy, which is south west of Liège . In 1688 he was also appointed priest of the neighbouring parish of St Germain and at the same time ‘pater’ of the Carmelites at Huy. He carried out all his duties until his death in 1712.
He is known as a composer by the Pièces d’Orgue sur les Huit Tons Op 2. The pieces show him to be well acquainted with the organs of his day. Writing in the best traditions of 17th century French organists, his 8 suites of 12-15 movements follow the order of the eight church modes. The suites end with one or two dances in harpsichord style. The forms are convincing and the music is both serious and enjoyable.
The typical organ that Chaumont knew would have had a large Grand Orgue, including a 16′ Bourdon, 8′ and 4′ stops, plus Quarte de Nazard, Grosse Tierce, Nasard, Tierce, Cornet [Fourniture, Cymbale], Trompette, Clarion And Voix Humaine. The Positif would have had a Bourdon at 8′ pitch, 4′, plus Nasard, Tierce [Fourniture and Cymbale] and Cromorne. There may have been an Écho, featuring a Cornet and the Pédale an 8′ Flûte.
The Suite du Cinquième Ton has 15 movements and the registrations used on the England-Drake organ in Christ’s Chapel are as follows:
Prélude Great Plein Jeu (Open and Stopt Diapasons 8′, Principal 4′,
Fifteenth 2′, Twelfth 2 2/3, Fourniture) (both hands)
Duo Great Trumpet 8′(right hand): Swell Trumpet 8′ (left hand)
Deuxième Duo Choir Cremona 8′ (both hands)
Trio Choir Stopt Diapason 8′ and Flute 4′ (both hands)
Recit Choir Stopt Diapason 8′ and Dulciana 8″, (left hand), Swell
Trumpet 8′ (right hand)
Fugue Légère Great Sesquialtera chorus (Plein Jeu, except exchange
Fourniture for Sesquilatera) (both hands)
Fugue Légère Swell Cornet Chorus (Open and Stopt Diapasons 8′,
Principal 4′, Fifteenth 2′, Cornet) (both hands)
Cornet Choir 8′ Stopt Diapason 8′ and 4′ Flute (left hand);
Great Cornet (right hand)
Basse de Trompette Great 8′ Trumpet (left hand); Choir 8′ Stopt Diapason, 4 Flute (right hand)
Basse de Cromhorne Voix Humaine 8′ (left hand) Swell Stopt Diapason 8′ (right hand)
Dialogue Great Trumpet 8′, 4′ Clairon, Principal 4′, Cornet; Swell Cornet Chorus coupled to Choir
Cremona and Principal 4′ (both hands, each division)
Trio à 3 claviers Swell Cornet chorus (right hand), Choir Voix Humaine 8′(left hand), Pedal Principal 8′.
Echo Choir Stopt Diapason 8′, Flute 4′; Great Cornet, Swell Cornet Chorus
Plein Jeu au Positif Choir Stopt Diapason 8′, Principal 4′, Fifteenth 2′.
Allemande Great Plein Jeu (movement omitted at demonstration,)
Voluntary Theophilus Cole (died 1731) (replacement piece for Allemande)
Cole’s Voluntary is one of the pieces from the Reading manuscripts transcribed by Dr John Carnelley. It is remarkably similar to the first Fugue Legere in tone and musical idea. Whilst it is likely that there is no direct connection between the two composers, what it does show is the ubiquitous nature of musical ideas and styles. To the classic Grands Jeux registration the Great Open Diapason and Principal are added for grander and broader effect. Being in the key of G and not C, the lowest note on the Great organ, GG, is heard in the final chord. GG and AA were both silent after the 1880 rebuild and can now be enjoyed once again.
Note that although notes are supplied on the keyboard on all three divisions, that there are no pipes for the low notes on the Swell.
References: Lambert Chaumont- Preface to the music by Jean Ferrard
New Grove Dictionary of Music 1995
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