The Choir, St John the Divine, Kennington, sings Christmas music

The church of St John the Divine, Kennington has a flourishing music programme which includes separate Boys’ and Girls’ Choirs and the Consort, a choir for older children and teenagers. Here, the Choir of adults sings two popular Christmas settings.

http://www.sjdk.org/page/2/welcome-st-john-divine-kennington

Lionel Bourne   Organist & Director of Music

Ding Dong! Merrily on High

In Dulci Jubilo

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Andrew Chadney plays Fiocco (1703-1741) at St Stephen, Norbury and Thorton Heath 

Joseph Hector Fiocco was born in Brussels to an Italian father in 1703. He was principally a violinist and worked for a time at Antwerp Cathedral. His surviving music includes a volume of pieces de clavecin. A simpler version of this ‘Andante’ is included.

This arrangement I play is  by Noel Rawsthorne who sets the piece for a solo with a continuo accompaniment. I found this in a Mayhew book of wedding music which I’ve had for some time.

The original (I presume) version is on  IMSlp as a harpsichord piece. What I haven’t been able to find out is whether Rawsthorne or Fiocco developed it into the version I played.

Hear and see the performance (which last 5 mins) by clicking here

Details of the organ are given on the NPOR link which  is http://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=D08220

Andrew Chadney

(Andrew is currently the Chair of the Society – Ed)

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Sarah Best plays Concerto in G major (Ist movement) Prinz Johann von Ernst 

I am a free-lance organist from North London, and a long-standing member of the Society. I  am also an accompanist for the London Transport Choir.

This transcription of a Violin Concerto in G was originally attributed to JS Bach, but was later found to be by Prince Johann Ernst of Sachsen Weimar.

He sadly died aged only 18 from a leg infection, in spite of this, he left a significant number of compositions.

Bach’s arrangement makes use of a double pedal part, and is written in two contrasting voices.

You can hear the recording  by clicking here . It lasts just under 5 minutes and was made at the Penge Congregational Church in Februry 2017.

More information about the church and the organ is given here

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Samzu Agbaje plays Sonata in C minor (1st movement) by Johann F Fasch 

Click the picture to hear me play at our Composite Recital in February 2017 at the Penge Congregational Church. The piece last just over three minutes and has a slide show of churches from across the world.

I am an engineer by day, and am the Organist of Tulse Hill Methodist Church, where I managed the recent installation of a reconditioned, extension pipe organ. I study with Marilyn Harper.

The trio is the first movement of a longer church style sonata, formerly attributed to JS Bach, known to organists as BWV 585. It is light and elegantly lyrical rather than contrapuntally dense. I learnt this trio movement in order to develop full left hand independence, a skill required by all organists.

The organ at Penge has the following spec http://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=P00484

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