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Organ Music 2012/13
Leeds Town Hall Mondays at 1.05pm Free Admission
Welcome to the upcoming season in the fortieth anniversary year of the restoration of the Organ at Leeds Town Hall.
2012 Monday 10 September
The Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford Dr Owen Rees director
Monday 17 September
We are delighted to host so many guests and welcome back old friends; these include singers and instrumentalists as well as keyboard players. Two special programmes commemorate Brian Peter Wilson, who cared for the Town Hall Organ with great distinction for so long and Dr John Birch, formerly Organist of Chichester Cathedral, The Temple Church, the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra who died in April.
Ben Thapa
The series gets under way with a visit from the acclaimed Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford, under the direction of Dr Owen Rees. We also have eagerly-anticipated visits from the component choirs of the Yorkshire Three Choirs’ Festival and from the Choirs of Leeds Cathedral and Leeds Minster. Additionally, warm welcomes go to St Peter’s Singers and Chamber Orchestra, the University of Huddersfield Brass Band and Principals of the National Festival Orchestra.
A special recital in memory of organ builder and tenor singer Brian Wilson, who was an integral member of the team that restored the Town Hall instrument forty years ago, and who also worked as curator of the organ at Leeds Minster for over forty years.
Again this season there are two Meet the Town Hall Organ presentations and we look forward to those greatly. Other “regulars” in our schedule include organ accompaniment to a silent film during the Leeds International Film Festival. So, if organ music be your food of love, come feast with us in Leeds! Very sincerely Simon Lindley City Organist
Meet the Town Hall Organ Saturdays 27 October 2012 & 23 February 2013 9.30am to 11am Admission Free
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Simon Lindley City Organist
Brian Peter Wilson Memorial Concert Programme includes tenor solos from Elijah, Hymn of Praise and The Crucifixion
Monday 24 September
Simon Lindley City Organist
Anniversary Tributes Anniversary Tributes to Boëllmann and Delius, born 1862 and to Massenet and Coleridge-Taylor, died 1912 Elgar Delius Grainger Parry Boëllmann Massenet Walton/McKie
Imperial March (1897 Diamond Jubilee) On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Handel in the Strand Chorale Preludes: Rockingham – Melcombe Suite Gothique The Last Sleep of the Virgin Coronation March: Orb and Sceptre
Monday 1 October
Monday 22 October
Alan Horsey
Benjamin Saunders
Berlier Bach Boyce Franck Reger Chilcott Carter Vierne
Britten Andriessen Elgar Mushel Barnes Holzmann
Halifax
Toccata Prelude & Fugue in G, S541 Trumpet Voluntary in D Andantino in G minor Introduction & Passacaglia in D minor Sun Dance Aria Toccata in B flat minor (Pièces de Fantaisie)
Monday 8 October
Yorkshire Three Choirs’ Festival Choirs of Leeds Minster, Ripon Cathedral & Wakefield Cathedral conductors Simon Lindley, Andrew Bryden & Thomas Moore organists Simon Lindley & David Houlder Quilter McKie McKie Handel SS Wesley Turner MacMillan Stanford
Non nobis, Domine Psalm 121 We wait for Thy loving-kindness, O God The King shall rejoice Jubilate in E The Queen shall rejoice A new Song Te Deum in B flat
Monday 15 October
Simon Lindley City Organist
with Principals of the National Festival Orchestra Sally Robinson leader Handel Albinoni Stanley Mozart Handel
Concerto V in F, Op 4 Adagio for Strings and Organ Concerto in G, arranged by Finzi Epistle Sonata in C Concerto in F (Second Set) – The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
Leeds Cathedral
Simple Symphony: Playful Pizzicato Premier Choral Salut d’amour Samarkand Suite Swing Song Blaze away
Monday 29 October
Simon Lindley City Organist
Langlais Vierne Grieg Nevin Saint-Saëns/ Lemare Gounod/Best Wagner/ Lemare
Incantation pour un jour Saint Stèle pour un enfant défunt In the Hall of the Mountain-King Will o’the Wisp (Toccatina) Danse Macabre Funeral March for a Marionette The Ride of the Valkyries
Monday 5 November
Simon Lindley City Organist
Organ Fireworks Bonnet Variations de Concert, Op 1 Vierne Feux follets (Pièces de Fantaisie) Handel Musick for the Royal Fireworks Lefébure-Wély Song of the Nuns – Sortie in B flat Dubois Fiat lux Langlais Suite Brève Vierne Carillon de Westminster (Pièces de Fantaisie)
Monday 12 November
Simon Lindley City Organist
Silent Film with organ accompaniment A Leeds International Film Festival event, featuring the Town Hall Organ as accompaniment to a silent film. Film to be announced in the LIFF brochure and at www.leedsconcertseason.com
Monday 19 November
Simon Lindley City Organist
The Art of Dr John Birch (1929-2012) Howells Rhapsody IV in C Howells Psalm Prelude Set 2, No 1: De profundis Grace Resurgam Jongen Menuet Scherzo Reger Dankpsalm Op 145, No 2 Howells Finale and Retrospect (Partita, 1970) Jongen Sonata Eroïca Op 94
The 2012 Lord Mayor’s Carol Concerts Leeds Town Hall
Thursday 13 December, 6.30pm & 8.30pm
Leeds Philharmonic Chorus Rothwell Temperance Brass Band
Alan Horsey organ introduced and conducted by Simon Lindley Tickets: £5 (concessions £2.50)
Box Office: 0113 224 3801 Book online: www.leedsconcertseason.com
Monday 26 November
Monday 17 December
Choirs of Leeds Cathedral & Leeds Minster
Leeds Cathedral
with Choristers of Leeds Cathedral Choir School Simon Lindley City Organist
Choral Gala Concert including: Plainchant Gorecki Gounod Handel
Worcester Acclamations: Christus vincit Totus tuus Tu Rex Gloriae Nisi Dominus
Thomas Leech Handel Five movements from Messiah Bach Chorale: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (two settings) Mendelssohn Overture: St Paul /Best Dupré Symphonie-Passion: Le Monde dans l’attente du Sauveur Nativité Eben A Festive Voluntary: Variations on Good King Wenceslas
Monday 3 December
2013
David Houlder
Monday 7 January
Leeds Minster Cocker Jackson Guilmant Sowande Peeters
Tuba Tune Hymn Prelude: East Acklam Sonata V in C minor, Op 80 K’a Mura (Two Preludes on Koruba Sacred Melodies) Toccata, Fugue & Hymne: Ave Maris Stella Op 28
Tuesday 11 December
Please note: This Concert is on a Tuesday
University of Huddersfield Brass Band Phillip McCann conductor Simon Lindley City Organist
Seasonal Music including Carols for All
Dr Gordon Stewart Huddersfield Town Hall Buxtehude Bach Arne Parry Cockroft Widor Vierne
Toccata & Fugue in F New Year Chorales: Das alte jahr vergangen ist – In Dir ist Freude Ayre and Gavot Fantasia & Fugue in G Variations on Bae Bae lille lam Symphonie Gothique: Andante sostenuto Symphonie I: Allegro vivace & Finale
Monday 14 January
Gerald Gifford Cambridge
Baroque – by arrangement
A special programme for organ and chamber organ Fischer Stanley De Lalande Torri Vivaldi Bach Gifford
Sinfonia in D Concerto III in G, Op 2 Symphonie sur des Noëls Suite in A Concerto in D RV93 Sinfonia S207 Baroquerie: music from Mouret, Campra, Handel, Telemann & Marcello
Monday 21 January
Thomas Moore Wakefield Cathedral
Vivaldi/Bach Concerto in A minor, S593 Hollins A Trumpet Minuet Franck Choral II in B minor Peeters Chorale-Prelude: Hostis Herodes impie Hendrie Toccata & Fugue: Le Tombeau de Marcel Dupré
Monday 28 January
Professor Ian Tracey Liverpool
Mr Best returns to Leeds Town Hall – a Lecture Recital in costume Handel Overture: The Occasional Oratorio Lully Rigaudon de Louis XIV D’Aquin Le Coucou Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ: The Shepherds’ Farewell Best March in D Bellini Norma: Casta diva Dubois Fiat lux
Wednesday 30 January
at The Venue, Quarry Hill
as part of the Leeds International Concert Season’s Wednesday Lunchtime Chamber Series Simon Lindley City Organist Bach Toccata and Fugue in d minor, S565 Stanley Prelude and Bell Allegro Lefébure Wély March in C Widor Symphony No IV: Andante Cantabile Gigout Scherzo Poulenc Suite Francaise (after Claude Gervaise) Vierne Première Suite: Andantino Reger Toccata and Fugue Op 59, Nos 5 & 6
Monday 4 February
Jonathan Bielby MBE
Organist Emeritus of Wakefield Cathedral Sullivan Overture: The Pirates of Penzance Bach from The Art of Fugue: Contrapunctus XII rectus et inversus Bielby Francis’s Fandango Bach from The Art of Fugue: Canon per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu Canon alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quinta Leighton Paean Bach from The Art of Fugue: Contrapunctus XIV, completed by Donald Francis Tovey
Monday 11 February
University of Huddersfield Brass Band Phillip McCann conductor Simon Lindley City Organist
Monday 18 February
Monday 11 March
St Peter’s Singers & St Peter’s Chamber Players
Simon Lindley
Bach
St John Passion
Part One at 12.00 noon; Part Two at 1.05 pm Stephen Newlove tenor (Evangelist) Philip Wilcox bass (Christus) with Sarah Potter, Lucy Appleyard, Paul Dutton, Quentin Brown Mary Huby leader Alan Horsey harpsichord David Houlder organ Simon Lindley conductor A complete performance, sung in English, with audience participation in the Chorales.
Monday 25 February
Joshua Stephens Manchester
Royal Northern College of Music Prizewinner Bach Toccata & Fugue in F major, S540 Ravel/Stephens Sonatine: Modéré Widor Symphonie VI in G minor
Monday 4 March
Phillip McCann cornet
Simon Lindley City Organist
These you have loved – favourite music for cornet, organ and piano
City Organist
Liszt Prelude & Fugue on BACH Jackson Impromptu for Sir Edward Bairstow Gigout Scherzo Liszt Fantasia & Fugue on a theme from Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète: Ad nos, ad salutarem undam
Monday 18 March
Thomas Trotter
Birmingham City Organist
Strictly Come Dancing Bach Fuga alla Giga Hampton Three Dances: Those Americans – At the Ballet – Everyone dance Lehar/Trotter Gold and Silver Waltz Alain Trois Danses: Joies – Deuils – Luttes Anderson/ Trotter Blue Tango Litaize Prélude et Danse Fuguée
Monday 25 March
The Choir of Leeds Minster David Houlder conductor with Simon Lindley City Organist Paul Dutton tenor Quentin Brown bass Stainer The Crucifixion
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