Miscellaneous - D'Arcy Trinkwon - 25th November onwards
Three forthcoming concerts…
- November 25 & December 9: The Meeting House
- November 29: Central Baptist Church, Bloomsbury, London
Wednesday 25 November @ 12 noon
Organ Music @ The Meeting House
Recital 84
Dandrieu Noëls
Bach Canonic Variations: Vom himmel hoch, da komm ich’ hier, BWV769
Hindemith Sonata No.3
Barié Symphonie, Op.5: IV. Intermezzo
Langlais Trois poèmes évangéliques, Op.2: II. Nativité
Dupré Variations sur un Noël, Op.20
Concluding our survey of Hindemith’s three organ sonatas, we hear the last – based on old folk German folksongs.
Other music celebrates Advent and looks towards to Christmas featuring colourful variations on ancient noëls starting with the 17th century Dandrieu and ending with Dupré’s ever, and we have Langlais’ charmingly naïve and picturesque Nativity… and a bit of fluff by another blind organist, Augustin Barié, .
We also have a work whose remarkably technical wizardry goes completely past and over the head of the listener disguised in the beautiful music which demonstrates just what a genius Bach was: his Canonic Variations – the complexity of which is so well crafted and hidden as to be unobstrusive – is a marvel at compositional wizardry: to reveal some of these, I’ll explain them at the organ with demonstrations – you will be amazed at how Bach manages to put so many incredibly complex things together!
Admission is free: retiring collection.
The Meeting House
University of Sussex
Falmer · BN1 9QF
W sussex.ac.uk/chaplaincy
T 07867 540954
(for details of getting there / parking etc. see below)
Saturday 28 November @ 4pm
Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, London
Cook Fanfare
Bach Chaconne in D minor, BWV1004 (arranged for organ by Cook)
Mader Afternoon of a Toad
Karg-Elert Three Pieces, Op. 142: II. Valse mignonne
Guilmant Sonata No.5 in C minor, Op.80
Bach’s magnificent Chaconne – originally written for solo violin is given a full virtuoso makeover in the arrangement by Cook, whose Fanfare opens the recital. After some years as Director of Music at Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, he emigrated to Canada where he carved out a very distinguished career.
Californian Clarence Made was a pillar of the Los Angeles organ world whose Afternoon of a Toad is quite unique – blending humour with virtuosity and total unusual use of the organ – whilst an afternoon playing a cinema organ inspired the endlessly verdant imagination of Karg-Elert to write his unique Valse mignonne……………….. The French grandee Guilmant is heard in his stirring and quite magnificent 5th sonata was completed in 1894.
HEAR it here: you can listen to a 1995 performance of the Guilmant uploaded last week onto my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/GMK2XiTNsF0
Admission is free: retiring collection.
Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
235 Shaftesbury Avenue
London
WC2H 8EP
W www.bloomsbury.org.uk/contact-us/
GETTING THERE
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Wednesday 9 December @ 12 noon
Organ Music @ The Meeting House
Recital 85
Messiaen La Nativité du Seigneur
Following the enthusiasm it generated last year, Messiaen’s 1935 masterpiece meditating on the mysteries of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Christmas.
Probably prefaced by Bach’s 3 advent preludes on Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV659-661.
Admission is free: retiring collection.
The Meeting House
University of Sussex
Falmer · BN1 9QF
W sussex.ac.uk/chaplaincy
T 07867 540954
D’Arcy Trinkwon
International Concert Organist
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