Leeds Lunchtime Organ Music 2019/20
Mondays at 1.05pm Leeds Town Hall www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk
The 2019/20 series of Leeds Lunchtime Organ Recitals welcomes back once again a wide range of recitalists – from Yorkshire to New Zealand – and music, from the 16th to the 21st centuries. From young virtuoso performers to established and distinguished players, the Town Hall organ will be thoroughly put through its paces and I’m sure there will be plenty to enjoy for everyone. We have a large and loyal audience for our recitals here at the Town Hall but we always would like more, so if you are one of our ‘regulars’ please spread the word – our recitalists always comment on the quality and quantity of the audience! I look forward to seeing you all in September for the start of the series. Darius Battiwalla City Organist
16 September 2019
23 September 2019
30 September 2019
Leeds City Organist
Concert Organist
City Organist Emeritus
Darius Battiwalla Bach Toccata & Fugue in D minor Grainger arr Battiwalla Spoon River Mendelssohn Sonata No 1 in F minor Lemare Summer Sketches: Twilight, Evening Lemare Concert Fantasia on the hymn tune Hanover City Organist Darius Battiwalla starts the series with the most famous organ piece of all Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor. There’s also a chance to hear pieces by the Edwardian virtuoso Edwin Lemare, with some of his Summer Sketches and virtuosic variations on Hanover.
2
Richard Gowers Bach/Schoenberg arr Gowers Prelude in E flat BWV 552 Liszt arr Nevin Liebesträume No 3 Mozart Adagio and Allegro K 594 Willan Introduction, Passacaglia & Fugue Returning for his second visit to Leeds Town Hall, virtuoso organist, pianist and conductor Richard Gowers is a former Organ Scholar at Kings College, Cambridge. He has given solo organ recital tours of the USA as well as concerts in Iceland, Australia and Germany.
Simon Lindley Bonnet Variations de Concert Vierne Pièces de Fantaisie: Arabesque; Epitaphe Roever/Korb arr Bladwin Highland Cathedral Cockroft Soliloquy Elgar arr Brewer The Dream of Gerontius: Prelude and Angel’s Farewell Guilmant Organ Sonata No 5 City Organist Emeritus Simon Lindley makes his first appearance of the season in a programme with a distinctly French flavour ending with Guilmant’s dramatic and powerful C minor sonata. And those of you who enjoyed the performance of The Dream of Gerontius at the end of last Orchestral season will welcome another chance to hear the Prelude and Angel’s Farewell.
7 October 2019
14 October 2019
28 October 2019
USA/New Zealand
Leeds City Organist
St Lawrence Jewry, City of London
Thomas Gaynor Bach arr Guilmant Cantata BWV 29: Sinfonia Widor Symphonie No 5: i Allegro Vivace Duruflé Suite pour Orgue Op 5: Sicilienne Hampton Five Dances for Organ: iii Those Americans, ii At the Ballet Whitlock Sonata in C minor: Scherzetto Lindberg Sonata in G minor: iii Alla Sarabanda, iv Finale: Allegro con brio Originally from New Zealand and now based in New York, Thomas Gaynor was winner of the first and audience prizes in the 2017 St Albans International Organ Competition, and first prizes in the Third International Bach-Liszt Organ Competition in Erfurt/ Weimar, Germany, the Sydney International Organ Competition and the Fort Wayne National Organ Playing Competition.
Darius Battiwalla Clocks and Cathedrals Stanford Fantasia & Toccata Haydn Pieces for Musical Clock: Nos 3, 5 & 7 Karg-Elert Cathedral Windows: Ave Maria; Lauda Sion Wilby Organ Hours: Contrapuntal Exercises after the Medieval Clock at Wells Cathedral (2017) Howells Psalm-Prelude Set 1, No 1 Vierne Pieces de Fantaisie III: Carillon de Westminster A programme based on clocks and cathedrals – from Haydn’s mechanical clock pieces to music inspired by cathedrals at Wells, Gloucester, and finally Vierne’s famous Carillon de Westminster.
21 October 2019
Catherine Ennis Bach Prelude & ‘St Anne’ Fugue in E flat BWV 552 Purcell Voluntary on the Old Hundredth Farrington Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir (Orgelbüchlein Project) Parry Three Chorale Preludes: i Martyrdom, ii Hanover, iii Eventide Locklair The Peace may be exchanged Vierne Symphonie No 1: Scherzo, Andante & Final A former President of the Royal College of Organists, Catherine Ennis is organist at St Lawrence Jewry in the City of London. She has toured Europe and USA and given solo recitals at the Proms and the Royal Festival Hall.
Alan Horsey
4 November 2019
Buxtehude Praeludium in D major Pachelbel Ciacona in D minor Sweelinck Variations on More Palatino Arnolt Schlick Maria Zart Bach arr Reger Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor BWV 903 Leighton Improvisation Guilmant Invocation in B flat Widor Symphonie No 2: Finale
Leeds City Organist
Halifax
One of our regular favourites at the Town Hall, Alan Horsey originally studied at the Royal College of Music. Alan has held appointments at Bradford Cathedral as well as in London and Leeds, and appears regularly with Sheffield Bach Society and Doncaster Choral Society.
Darius Battiwalla Looking East Glinka arr Battiwalla Overture: Ruslan and Ludmila Bedřich Janáček Two Chorale Preludes Tchaikovsky arr Battiwalla Symphony No 4: Scherzo Liszt Fantasy & Fugue on the chorale Ad nos, ad salutarem undam Ending with Liszt’s gigantic fantasia on Ad Nos, this programme also features transcriptions of Russian orchestral favourites – a delicate scherzo by Tchaikovsky and Glinka’s exuberant Ruslan and Ludmila.
3
11 November 2019
Jonathan P Eyre Silent Film Accompanist
Silent Film Accompaniment In association with Leeds International Film Festival – film to be announced in the LIFF brochure and at www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk
18 November 2019
Darius Battiwalla Leeds City Organist
Silent Film Accompaniment In association with Leeds International Film Festival – film to be announced in the LIFF brochure and at www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk
25 November 2019
John Scott Whiteley Organist Emeritus, York Minster
Tournemire transc Duruflé Improvisation on Victimae paschali laudes Bach Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C BWV 564 Thalben-Ball Variations on a theme by Paganini (for pedals) MacMillan Toccata (2019) Mayerl Ace of Clubs, Marigold Dupré Prelude & Fugue in B major Op 7, No 1 Famous as a distinguished former organist of York Minster and for his television recordings of Bach’s organ works, as well as being an authority on the composer Joseph Jongen, John Scott Whiteley is an international concert organist making a welcome return solo visit to the Leeds recital series. 4
2 December 2019
University of Salford Brass Band After its magnificent first appearance in our series last December, Salford University returns for another programme of virtuoso band music and Christmas favourites, joined of course by the Town Hall organ.
9 December 2019
The Choirs of Leeds Cathedral Ben Saunders & Sally Egan conductors David Pipe organ Celine Saout harp
Britten’s Ceremony of Carols and other seasonal favourites Our Christmas visits from the Leeds Cathedral choir have become more popular every year. A wide range of Christmas music featuring the Cathedral’s many different choirs, and an opportunity for you to join in singing some favourite carols.
16 December 2019
13 January 2020
27 January 2020
Leeds City Organist
Huddersfield Town Hall
London
Darius Battiwalla 250 Years of French organ music Couperin Offertoire sur les Grands Jeux Lefébure-Wèly Communion in F major Franck Prière Duruflé Prelude & Fugue sur le nom d’Alain Widor Symphonie No 4: Andante Cantabile Vierne Pièces de Fantaisie: Intermezzo Messiaen La Nativité du Seigneur: iii Desseins Éternels, viiii Dieu Parmi Nous A programme covering the whole magnificent range of French organ music, from the grand baroque gestures of Couperin, through Franck and Widor, finishing with perhaps the most spectacular piece of Christmas organ music Messiaen’s Dieu Parmi Nous.
No Recitals on 23 December, 30 December, 6 January.
The 2019 Lord Mayor’s Carol Concerts Leeds Town Hall Thursday 19 December 2019 6.30pm & 8.30pm
Leeds Philharmonic Chorus Rothwell Temperance Band Joseph Judge chorus master Alan Horsey organ introduced and conducted by Simon Lindley Tickets £6.50 (discounts £3.50) Box Office: 0113 376 0318 • www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk
Dr Gordon Stewart Respighi The Birds: Marcia Böhm Praeludium in C Bach Trio in G BWV 1027 Mendelssohn Sonata No 2 in C minor Whitlock Four Extemporisations: ii Divertimento Rheinberger Sonata No 8: Introduction & Passacaglia Bernard Johnson Elfentanz Bossi Toccata di Concerto It’s become a tradition for Gordon to re-start the recitals after the Christmas break, and this year he does so with a wide-ranging programme, beginning and ending in Italy. Lighter English music is well represented with Whitlock’s virtuosic Divertimento and the Elfentanz of Bernard Johnson – a good friend and colleague of Hollins – as well as Romantic masterpieces by Mendelssohn and Rheinberger.
20 January 2020
Sarah Baldock Concert Organist
Boellmann Suite Gothique Dupré Cortège et Litanie Buxtehude Prelude & Fugue in F sharp minor Vierne Pièces en style libre: Legende, Scherzetto, Carillon de Longpont A prizewinner at many international competitions, Sarah has held organists’ posts at Winchester and Chichester Cathedrals, and is now based in Cheltenham. Her programme features a chance to hear a complete performance of Boellman’s popular Suite Gothique, as well as works by Buxtehude and Dupré.
David Titterington Harris Flourish for an occasion Samuel Wesley Voluntary in D major Andriessen Sonata da Chiesa Barrie Cabena Portraits for Organ: Hugh’s Hornpipe Ritter Sonata in A minor David Titterington is Head of Organ at the Royal Academy of Music, Artistic Director of St Albans International Organ Festival and a Professor of the University of London. He has appeared in recitals and concertos at major festivals worldwide including the bi-centennial Festival of Sydney, and the international festivals of Hong Kong, New Zealand, Adelaide, Tokyo, Guelph, Schleswig Holstein, Israel, Istanbul and the City of London.
3 February 2020
Darius Battiwalla Leeds City Organist
Africa – America Bach Prelude & Fugue in C major BWV 547 Fela Sowande Kyrie William Farley Smith Wade in duh Wadduh! Bolcom Variations on Amazing Grace Ives Variations on America Beginning with one of Bach’s most positive and uplifting works, the Prelude and Fugue in C major, the programme continues with Fela Sowande’s Kyrie – based on Nigerian church melodies – and pieces by William Farley Smith, and William Bolcom’s jazzy variations on Amazing Grace. Charles Ives’ Variations on America – better known to us as God Save the Queen – completes the programme.
10 February 2020
Brass Band Concert 17 February 2020
St Peter’s Singers 125 years of English sacred music David Houlder organ Simon Lindley conductor Moore Tu es Petrus (SPS Commission 2017) Moore All wisdom cometh from the Lord Elgar Ecce, sacerdos magnus Elgar Great is the Lord (Psalm 48) Elgar Ave verum corpus Elgar Give unto the Lord (Psalm 29) Britten Rejoice in the Lamb A chance to hear one of Britten’s most successful choral compositions Rejoice in the Lamb, along with Elgar’s two great anthems Great is the Lord and Give unto the Lord. Simon Lindley conducts, with David Houlder at the organ.
24 February 2020
Darius Battiwalla Leeds City Organist
Request Programme Your chance to hear anything you feel we might have missed! Please send requests for pieces – before Christmas – to: Leeds International Concert Season Leeds Town Hall, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AD or music@leeds.gov.uk
5
Leeds City Organist
Buses run every few minutes between 6.30am and 7pm and each journey costs just £1 (free for MCard, Metro Day, Park and Ride, English National concessionary pass (after 9.30am), First Day or season ticket holders). Fold indication
The nearest stop to Leeds Town Hall is No 6 ‘Headrow/Town Hall (Y15)’.
EAS T
. ST
ST .
K I NG
ET IG BR
YO RK
W
ST
.
NE
S T ATI O N
Park and Ride
RO AD
NEW
W AY
ND LA RT PO PA RA DE
D
ROA
RI NG
ET STRE EEN
AD
TE
HEADRO
W
PLACE
Victoria Quarter
GEORGE ST.
Bus & Coach Station
Kirkgate Market YORK ST
THE
C A LL S
H IG
H
T. CR
THE
River
TE GA
West Yorkshire Playhouse BBC Leeds College of Music Yorkshire Dance Centre
19 1
Corn 2 Exchange
For Printworks Campus Services 12, 13, 13A - K4 New Market St and U7 Vicar Lane
ST
EAS TG A TE
Victoria Gate development
DUNCAN ST 18
3
Trevelyan Square
EA
LADY LAN E
Fold indication
GA
COMMERCIAL ST
T9
H
ST.
RO
ST.
T HE
17
RT
VE
’S TER PE ST.
G
ME RRI ON
St. John’s Centre
BOAR LANE
4
NO
15
ALBION
Trinity Leeds 16
N W AY
ST.
IN
Leeds (First Direct) Arena
.
RI O
LANDS LANE
RR
LN
BEL GRA
AI R E S T R E E T
Leeds City Rail Station
T
M ER
Merrion Centre
A L BI O N ST R E E T
NE
NE
BOND ST .
EC
IN
LA
WYCA
PI
The Core
EB
18 Corn Exchange (K5)
.
AY
THE HEADROW
TE I R M RC A HA R Y NG S E T. City Square
TEHA
WHI
The Light
QU
17 Boar Lane for Leeds Trinity (T1)
IN
F
EET
AD LL RO
SQ
14
ROW
TON STR
E 5
PL.
N
Leeds City
Art Gallery /Library
IN
PLAC
WELLING
14 Merrion Centre (L5) 16 City Square (P5)
ST. PA UL’S ST. PARK
D
E
Park Square
13 Leeds Beckett University (L7) 15 St John’s Centre (J6)
Town Hall 6
YORK
EE
PA R K
12 Leeds General Infirmary (LGI)*
Y STREET
8 Leeds City College*
12A LGI – Calverley St (Y11) evenings & Sundays only
Combined Court WESTG AT E
7 Westgate/Courts (Y14)*
11 University of Leeds*
ROA
US
E
Civic Hall
College ST. Carriage TLAND POR -works GE OR GEORGE ST. G E S T. GREAT
GR EAT
Magistrates Court
LAN
QU
CL
Millennium Square
12A
7
10 Dental Institute*
RI NG
HO
LE
Leeds General Infirmary
6 Headrow/Town Hall (Y15)*
9 Clarendon Road /Maternity Hospital*
07/07/2016 09:55
6
ER
Clarendon Maternity Wing
Y WA
PARK
5 King Street (W4)
LV
8
4 Leeds Rail Station (S8)
INNER
OD
Fold indication
3 Boar Lane for Leeds Trinity (T7)
Leeds City College
CA
2 Kirkgate (K13)
9
13
CLARENDON WAY
SE DHOU E WOO LITTL
NE
Leeds Beckett University
12
11
10
Dental Institute
AL LA
AD RO
1 York Street for Bus Station (F7)
KEND
N DO EN AR CL
For details visit www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk. Call 0113 378 6600 for a free brochure.
The Mount
TE
University of Leeds
Forms part of service 5
Times from Leeds Railway Station: Mondays to Fridays 0607, 0636, 0651, 0706 and every 10 mins until 1906 then 1942, 2012, 2042, 2112, 2212, 2312. Saturdays 0749, 0804, 0819, 0834, 0849, 0856 and every 10 mins to 1736, 1751, 1806, 1824, 1844 and 1904, then 1942, 2012, 2042, 2112, 2212, 2312. Sundays 0742 and every 30 mins until 2112, 2212, 2312.
WO
A programme of chamber music recitals featuring some of the most talented young musicians at the start of their professional careers, alongside students from Leeds the UK’s leading conservatoires citybus and junior colleges.
Why not take advantage of Metro’s Leeds Citybus to travel to and from Leeds Town Hall?
INNER
Wednesdays, 1.05pm at The Venue, Leeds College of Music
Leeds City Bus Leaflet 008 2016_AW.indd 2
Composed by J H Maunder in 1904, Olivet to Calvary has become a popular ‘alternative’ to Stainer’s earlier Crucifixion, being similarly scored for organ, church choir, and tenor and bass soloists. As Philip Tolley writes, it is “a fine example of music written for the late Victorian/ early Edwardian Anglican church... [containing] a sincerity and dedication which... has carried the piece through to the modern era.”
Leeds Lunchtime Chamber Music
REET
Maunder Olivet to Calvary
Enjoy more free lunchtime concerts in Leeds
After 1920 no major work was done and the organ gradually fell into disrepair; by 1968 it had stopped working altogether. In 1971 Leeds City Council took the decision to completely restore the organ and it was also redesigned, by another local firm Wood Wordsworth and Co, in a way that reflected the musical fashions of the time. The slightly smaller instrument – though still with 81 stops on three manuals – is now one of the most played and heard recital instruments in the country.
N ST
Paul Dewhurst conductor
City Organist Emeritus Simon Lindley makes a welcome return with one of the Town Hall’s regular visitors, Phillip McCann, one of the country’s leading cornet players. The beautiful combination of the cornet with the Town Hall organ makes these concerts a favourite event in the series.
Darius finishes the season with Lemare’s spectacular transcription of Saint-Saens’ Danse Macabre, along with Bach’s arrangement of a Vivaldi violin concerto, and Jongen’s Sonata Eroïca.
QUEE
The Choir of Leeds Minster
Himes All that I am Hollings First Light Karg-Elert Marche Triomphale Nun danket alle Gott Scottish traditional arr Drover Mull of the Cool Bens Irish traditional arr Hunsberger The Last Rose of Summer Hollins Finale en forme d’Ouverture Hoch arr Blaauw Singvogelchen aus dem Thuringer-Wald Mozart arr Morehen Masonic Funeral Music Richards Pastorale Irish traditional arr Gates Be Thou my vision Rutter Toccata in Seven Sullivan arr McCann The Lost Chord
Jongen Sonata Eroïca Vivaldi/Bach Concerto in D minor BWV 596 Heathcote Statham Rhapsody on a Ground Lemare Rondo Capriccio (a study in accents) Saint-Saëns/Lemare Danse Macabre
HY ST DE RE ET
9 March 2020
solo cornet
HANOVER
One of our most popular regular recitalists, Thomas Trotter was appointed Birmingham City Organist in 1983, based Making his first solo appearance at the city’s historic Town Hall at the Town Hall by popular and he is Resident Organist request, Neil has held organist’s of the magnificent Klais organ posts at St Alban’s, Norwich and in Symphony Hall. He is also Sheffield Cathedrals, and recorded Organist at St Margaret’s Church, and performed at major venues Westminster Abbey, in London, and throughout the UK. He is Music Visiting Fellow in Organ Studies Director of St George’s Singers, at the Royal Northern College of Manchester, The Sheffield Chorale, Music. Earlier in his career he was and Artistic Director of the Keele organ scholar at King’s College, Bach Choir; he appears frequently Cambridge, and he later continued with the BBC as Musical Director his studies with Marie-Claire Alain and Organist on BBC Songs of Praise, in Paris where he took the Prix de Daily Service and Sunday Worship. Virtuosité in her class.
Phillip McCann
LE QU
Bach Toccata in F BWV 540 Duruflé Prélude, Adagio et Choral Varié sur Veni Creator arr Anderson The last Rose of Summer; The Girl I left behind me Laurin Etude Héroïque
LITT
Mendelssohn Sonata No 3 in A major Bach Fantasia in G major Pièce d’orgue BWV 572 Vierne Symphonie III: Adagio Howells Rhapsody No 3 in C sharp minor Jongen Chant de Mai Franck Choral No 3 in A minor
Darius Battiwalla
STR EET
City Organist Emeritus
Simon Lindley
REG ENT
Birmingham City Organist
Dr Thomas Trotter
RE
Macclesfield
Neil Taylor
Installed at the opening of the hall in around 1860, the original organ by the London firm of Gray and Davison was a hugely ambitious and forward-looking conception of four manuals and nearly 100 stops, though some of its technical innovations proved not completely reliable. By the turn of the century, increasing unreliability combined with its incompatibility with the newly standardised concert pitch meant it needed a complete rebuild by the Leeds firm of Abbott and Smith.
ST
30 March 2020
L A NE
23 March 2020
B R I G GA
16 March 2020
V I C AR
2 March 2020
Catch service 16 to St James's Hospital H from here
KIRKG A
TE
Stop for Leeds City Bus Station
CALLS
Aire
19 York Street for Bus Station (F4) (towards Halton Moor) * These stops not served on evenings & Sundays Evenings & Sundays only
© Crown copyright. All rights reserved. West Yorkshire Combined Authority 100020521 2016
Fold indication
7
TALK TO US! If you have any questions or comments about Leeds International Concert Season please contact us: Leeds International Concert Season Leeds Town Hall, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AD General Enquiries: 0113 378 6600 Email: music@leeds.gov.uk Whilst every effort is made to avoid changes, Leeds International Concert Season reserves the right to change artists and programmes without notice if unavoidable.
@LeedsConcerts Leeds International Concert Season
Designed and produced by: Design It: designit-uk.com Printed by: LCC Print Unit Printed on paper from sustainable forests