Leeds Lunchtime
Organ Music 2016/17
Mondays at 1.05pm
Leeds Town Hall
Leeds Lunchtime
Organ Music 2016/17
Unfolding from a programme recalling the English Edwardian period in the first decade and a half of the last century, this season’s lunchtime organ concerts again feature solo recitals of repertoire for the king of instruments alongside concerts with guests musicians; there are four such events, designated Organ in Consort. Among many particular points of interest, David Houlder reaches the last component of programmes featuring the fine sonatas of Alexandre Guilmant – he ends with the eighth, completed in 1906 just five years prior to its composer’s death in 1911. It is a privilege, as well as a very real pleasure, to be able to welcome so many distinguished artists and ensembles as well as members of our regular audience. It is the hope of us all that you enjoy the music on offer and find our programmes enlightening as well as entertaining. This will be the final series in which I will have been closely involved both in terms of planning and presenting the concerts on a regular basis. I have enjoyed the work immensely, and benefited immeasurably from the kindness and professionalism of colleagues here at the Town Hall over the years. I look forward to further collaborations as and when scheduled. With every possible good wish to you all. Simon Lindley City Organist
2016 Monday 19 September
Simon Lindley City Organist
1916 and all that Fricker Fantasy-Overture Haydn Wood Roses of Picardy Ireland Marcia Popolare Bernard Rose Chimes Reger Introduction and Passacaglia in D minor Thalben-Ball Elegy (1918) Parry Jerusalem
Monday 26 September
Simon Lindley City Organist
Continental Collation Salomé Rheinberger Rheinberger Vierne Peeters Bonnet Dubois
Allegro symphonique Sonata VIII in E minor, Op 132 – Introduction & Passacaglia Cantilena (Sonata XI in D minor) Triptyque, Op 58 Suite Modale, Op 43 Poèmes d’Automne Fiat lux (Douze Pièces Nouvelles)
Monday 3 October
Simon Lindley City Organist
Margaret McDonald mezzo soprano
Organ in Consort I These you have loved from Sacred to Secular with a fair bit in between! Programme to include: Handel Pastoral Symphony (Messiah) Rossini Agnus Dei (Petite Messe Solennelle) Bizet Habanera (Carmen) Gershwin Summertime (Porgy and Bess) Bernstein Somewhere (West Side Story) Leigh The impossible dream (The Man from La Mancha)
Monday 10 October
Monday 31 October
City Organist
Liverpool
Simon Lindley David Greed violin
Claire Strafford soprano
Organ in Consort II Karg-Elert Nun danket alle Gott Op 65, No 59 (Marche Trionfale) Karg-Elert Chorale: Vom Himmel hoch Op 78, No 18 Karg-Elert The reed-grown waters (Seven Pastels) Karg-Elert Symphonic Chorale: Nun ruhen alle Wälder Op 87, No 3 Kreisler Praeludium and Allegro
Monday 17 October
Jason Roberts New York City
Vivaldi/Bach Concerto in A minor, S593 Ravel/Roberts Sonatine Duruflé Prélude, Adagio et Choral Varié sur le thème du Veni Creator Improvisation
Meet the Town Hall Organ Saturday 22 October 2016
9.30am – 11am The City Organist’s popular armchair guide to the king of instruments. Admission free
Monday 24 October
St Peter’s Singers Julie Kilburn soprano Lucy Appleyard mezzo soprano Philip Steel tenor Quentin Brown bass Simon Lindley conductor Frank Martin Mass for Double Choir Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor
Professor Ian Tracey Bach Fugue in E flat, pro organo pleno, S552 (the St Anne Fugue) Franck Choral II in B minor Rawsthorne Phantasie: Wachet auf – composed for the recitalist Roger-Ducasse Pastorale Mendelssohn/ Scherzo (Incidental music to Goss-Custard Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Duruflé Toccata (Suite, Op 5)
Monday 7 November
Simon Lindley City Organist
Silent Film Accompaniment In association with Leeds International Film Festival. Film to be announced in the LIFF brochure and at www.leedsconcertseason.com.
Monday 14 November
Simon Lindley City Organist
Request Programme Please send your requests to: Arts Planning, Leeds Town Hall, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AD or music@leeds.gov.uk
Monday 21 November
Simon Lindley City Organist
Phillip McCann cornet
Organ in Consort III More of the World’s most beautiful Melodies including extracts from Phillip’s acclaimed CD series on the Chandos label.
Monday 28 November
Darius Battiwalla Halifax
Marches and Dances Brewer Marche Héroïque Alain Deux Danses à Agni Yavishta Franck Fantaisie in A Gounod/Scott Funeral March of a Marionette Heiller Tanz-Toccata Dove The Dancing Pipes Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre
Monday 5 December
David Houlder Leeds Minster
Cook Fanfare Walton/Gower Three Pieces from Richard III Whitlock Plaint – Exultemus (Seven Sketches on Verses from the Psalms) Guilmant Sonata VIII
Monday 12 December
Senior Choirs of Leeds Cathedral Choir of Holy Rosary Choir School
The 2016 Lord Mayor’s Carol Concerts Leeds Town Hall
Thursday 15 December 6.30pm & 8.30pm
Leeds Philharmonic Chorus Richard Wilberforce chorus master
Rothwell Temperance Band Alan Horsey organ Introduced and conducted by Simon Lindley Tickets: £6 (concessions £3)
Box Office: 0113 376 0318 Book online: www.leedsconcertseason.com
2017 Monday 16 January
Dr Gordon Stewart Huddersfield Town Hall
to sing.
Bednall Fanfare – Processional Buxtehude Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne Bach Trio: Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, S664 Bach Sonata in C minor Pescetti Fugue: Magnificat, S733 Koomans Magnificat Robert Cockroft Danse et Musette Vierne Impromptu Grison Toccata in F
Tuesday 13 December
Monday 23 January
Benjamin Saunders, Sally Egan directors with Simon Lindley City Organist Advent and Christmas Music including Carols for all
Brass Band Christmas Concert Phillip McCann conductor Simon Lindley City Organist with Seasonal carols sung by all. No recitals on 20 Dec, 27 Dec, 2 Jan and 9 Jan
Jas Huntington-Bazley Tiverton, Devon
Royal Northern College of Music Prizewinner’s Prize Recital Bach Fugue: Magnificat, S733 Judith Bingham Ancient Sunlight Bach Prelude and Fugue in G major, S541 Bach Chorale: Dies sind die heil’gen zehn Gebot, S678 Dupré Les Cloches de Perros-Guirec Stanford Fantasia and Toccata
Monday 30 January
Monday 20 February
Halifax
City Organist
Alan Horsey Renaud Dandrieu Bach Bairstow German Vierne Hollins Reger
Toccata in D minor Op 108, No 1 Les Prieurs Fuga alla giga, S577 Scherzo in A flat Fantasia on themes from Merrie England Pièces de Fantaisie: Feux Follets (Deuxième Suite) Morning Song Chorale Fantasia: Ein feste Burg, Op 27
Simon Lindley Julia Breakspear flute
Organ in Consort IV CPE Bach Godard Borne
Sonata in G (Hamburger) Suite de trois morceaux Fantasia on themes from Bizet’s Carmen
Monday 27 February
Simon Lindley
Monday 6 February
City Organist
Phillip McCann conductor with Simon Lindley City Organist
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, S565 Fantasia con imitazione, S563 Fantasia in G (Pièce d’Orgue), S572 Sheep may safely graze (Aria from Cantata 208) Jesu, joy of man’s desiring (Chorale from Cantata 147) Partita: Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig, S768 Prelude and Fugue in C major, S547
Brass Band Concert Monday 13 February
St Peter’s Singers David Houlder organ Simon Lindley conductor
Popular choral favourites Forty years on from the choir’s formation in 1977 this acclaimed Leeds-based ensemble was founded by Harry Fearnley, a senior member of the Choir of what was then Leeds Parish Church.
Meet the Town Hall Organ Saturday 18 February 2017
9.30am – 11am The City Organist’s popular armchair guide to the king of instruments. Admission free
Bach Recital
Monday 6 March
Dr Thomas Trotter Birmingham City Organist
Handel Concerto in D minor Op 7, No 4 Bach Three Schübler Chorales: Wachet auf, ruft die Stimme, S645 Meine Seele, erhebt den Herren, S648 Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter, S650 Mozart Andante in F, K616 Leroy Anderson The Syncopated Clock Reger Fantasy on the Chorale: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
Monday 13 March
Jonathan Lilley Waltham Abbey
Vierne Hymne au Soleil Vierne Naïades Mussorgsky/Wills Pictures at an Exhibition
Monday 20 March
Simon Lindley City Organist
Popular Favourites with a London flavour Mendelssohn War March of the Priests (Athalie) Lemare Andantino in D flat (Moonlight and roses) Goss-Custard Chelsea Fayre Coates Knightsbridge March (London Suite) Guilmant Marche Nuptiale Malcolm Bach before the Mast Anderson Blue Tango Binge Elizabethan Serenade Mulet Rosace – Noel (Esquisses Byzantines) Carillon-Sortie
Monday 3 April
The Choir of Leeds Minster with Simon Lindley City Organist Jeremy Dawson tenor Quentin Brown bass Charles Wood
St Mark Passion
A rare revival of this significant 1920 work written by Wood at the request of Eric Milner-White, the former First World War Padre who was Dean of King’s College Cambridge from 1918 to 1941 and thereafter Dean of York until his death in office in 1963.
Monday 10 April
Darius Battiwalla & Simon Lindley Tea for Two and other favourites for organ duet and two organs with an ‘end of term’ Easter Holiday flavour.
Monday 27 March
Dr David Hill
Rutland Music Director of Leeds Philharmonic Chorus Franck Choral I in E major Vierne Clair de lune (Pièces de Fantaisie) Lefébure-Wély from L’Organiste Moderne Offertoire in D minor Verset in G Sortie in E flat Franck Choral III in A minor
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