SATURDAY ORGAN CONCERT SERIES

2015 – 2016
St Albans
International
Organ Festival
SATURDAY ORGAN
CONCERT SERIES
Christophe Mantoux Joseph Beech © Timothy Ellis Bernard Winsemius
Bine Bryndorf Dong-ill Shin Martin Baker
Jake Brown Daniel Moult Peter Holder © Malcolm Crowthers

Saturday Organ Concert Series 2011 – 2012
SATURDAY ORGAN CONCERT SERIES 2015 – 2016
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24 October 2015
St Peter’s Church, 5.30pm
JOSEPH BEECH (organ) UK
JAKE BROWN (percussion) UK
Nico Muhly
Paul Creston
Philip Glass
Dave Maric
Arvo Pärt
Cochereau
Beaming Music
Meditation
Satyagraha Act III
Borrowed Time
Fratres
Boléro
Prize-winning Royal
Academy of Music
students Joseph
Beech and Jake
Brown return to the
IOF. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear
some of the most sonically thrilling music
for organ and percussion played by these
two outstanding young musicians.
19 September 2015
St Albans Cathedral, 5.30pm
CHRISTOPHE MANTOUX FRANCE
St Peter’s Church
de Grigny From the Mass 1699
Et in terra Pax à 5
Récit de Tierce en taille
Basse de Trompette ou de Cromorne
Fugue à 5
Dialogue
Franck
Choral no.1 in E major
Duruflé Suite Op. 5
Opening this year’s concert
series and playing in St Albans
for the first time is Christophe
Mantoux. One of France’s
leading organists and the 1984
winner of the Grand Prix de Chartres, he is
organist of St Séverin in Paris and professor
at the Conservatoire National de Région
de Paris.
21 November 2015
St Albans Cathedral, 5.30pm
BINE BRYNDORF DENMARK
Niels la Cour
From Vesper Organi
Preludio
Lauda
Preghiera
Fuga
Franck
Pastorale
Vierne Organ Symphony no. 2
Bine Bryndorf is universally
regarded as one of today’s most
charismatic and influential
organists and teachers whose
recordings of Buxtehude and
his contemporaries have garnered many
international awards. Since 2001, she has
been Professor of Organ at the Royal
Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen.
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16 January 2016
St Albans Cathedral, 5.30pm
DONG-ILL SHIN SOUTH KOREA
Buxtehude Magni cat BuxWV 203
J.S.Bach Toccata and Fugue in F Major BWV 540
Brahms
O Welt, ich muss dich lassen
Herzlich tut mich erfreuen
Prelude and Fugue in G minor,
Franck
Prelude, Fugue & Variation
Vierne Adagio & Final from Organ Symphony no.3
Winner of the Grand Prix de
Chartres in 2006, Dong-ill Shin
has since established a worldwide
career as a concert organist and
one of South Korea’s leading
musicians. Following appointments in the
USA, he returned to Seoul as Professor of
Organ at Yonsei University.
Sponsored by Asiana Airlines
20 February 2016
AGM recital
Haileybury College, 5.30pm
MARTIN BAKER UK
Buxtehude Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
BuxWV 233
Passacaglia in D minor BuxWV 161
Lionel Rogg
La cité céleste
Messiaen
from Livre du Saint Sacrement
Les ténèbres
La Résurrection du Christ
Martin Baker
Improvisation
Reger
Fantasie on the Choral
Wie schön leucht’ uns der Morgenstern
Winner of the 1997 Tournemire
Prize at St Albans, Martin Baker
has since 2000 been Master of
Music at Westminster
Cathedral from where he
directs the world-renowned choir. As a
concert organist he is one of the most
sought after performing worldwide.
19 March 2016
St Saviour’s Church, 5.30pm
BERNARD WINSEMIUS
Haileybury College
* Preludium, Trio and Fuga in B flat major
19 March 2016
(manuscript of Benjamin Cooke: a version of BWV 545 and
St Saviour’s an arrangement Church, of 5.30pm BWV 1029/3)
BERNARD WINSEMIUS
* Capriccio, BWV 992 “on the departure of his beloved brother” #.
THE NETHERLANDS
- Arioso: ‘the flattery of his friends trying to keep him from leaving’
- A depiction of the ‘varous misfortunes which could happen to him abroad’
- Adagissimo: ‘the general lament of his friends’
- ‘The friends realising the inevitable bid their farewell’
- Aria of the Postillion
- Fuga ‘in imitation of the Postillion’s cornet’
J.S.Bach Fantasia in G minor BWV 542/1
* From the harpsichord concerto, BWV 1055 #:
rtita O Gott, du frommer Gott BWV
- Larghetto
- Allegro ma non tanto
Au jo deu de pu
Grand dei, ribon rib
* Two chorales from church cantates # :
Adagio und Allegro in F mino
- Der Gott, der mir hat versprochen (from BWV 13) Psal
- Erbarm’ dich mein in solcher Last Nun (from ruhen BWV alle 113) W
Pièce d’Orgue BWV
Psal
* From the Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080:
- Contrapunctus 1
- Contrapunctus 9 (alla Duodecima)
- Canon all’Ottava
- Contrapunctus 11 (with the name B.A.C.H. in counterpoint)
(# arranged for organ by B.Winsemius)
Winsemius was appointed organist of the
historic organs of the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam
together with Gustav Leonhardt, a post
he still holds today. He is also a leading
Carillonneur and emeritus city carillonneur of
Haarlem and Amsterdam.
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SATURDAY ORGAN CONCERT SERIES 2015 – 2016
16 April 2016
St Peter’s Church, 5.30pm
DANIEL MOULT UK
J.S.Bach Toccata, Adagio and Fugue BWV564
Mendelssohn
Andante alla marcia
Liszt Variations on Weinen, klagen, sorgen, zagen
Saint-Saens Prelude and Fugue in B major
Howells Rhapsody no. 3
Leighton Little Canonic Variations on Lumetto
Gowers
Toccata
Daniel Moult enjoys a multifaceted
career as organ soloist,
teacher, animateur and writer.
Recent performances and
recording projects have taken
him throughout the UK, Europe and
Australia and we are particularly
delighted to welcome him to St Albans
to play his first recital for the festival.
14 May 2016
St Albans Cathedral, 5.30pm
PETER HOLDER UK
Escaich
Evocation II
Rinck Six variations on a theme of Corelli
Swayne
Riff-Raff
Dupré Prelude and Fugue in F minor op.7 no.2
Liszt arr. Helmut Deutsch Fantasia quasi Sonata
‘Après une lecture de Dante’
We welcome back Peter Holder,
a former St Albans Cathedral
organ scholar. He was
subsequently appointed organ
scholar at Westminster Abbey
before moving to St Paul’s Cathedral as
Sub-Organist from where he has
established himself as one of the finest
organists of his generation.
ANGELA TUCKER
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