19th April 2012 - 12.30 Lunchtime Concert

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Graham Davies
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Programme

Voluntary in G Op 5 no lll                                                                   John Stanley (1712 – 1786)
Voluntary in D                                                                                      William Croft (1678 – 1727)
Fuga in F                                                                             George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)
Partite sopra la Aria della Folia Espagna                           Bernardo Pasquini (1637 – 1710)
Allegro in D                                                                      João de Sousa Carvalho (1745 – 1798)
Arabesque from 24 Pieces en style libre                                     Louis Vierne (1870 – 1937)
Toccata in b minor                                                                           Eugène Gigout (1844 – 1925)
Pastorale from 24 Pieces en style libre                                       Louis Vierne (1870 – 1937)
Angel Scene from Hansel and Gretal                        Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 – 1921)
Sonata No. 2 in c minor                                                           Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847)
            Grave – Adagio – Allegro maestoso - Fuga                                                                          

Graham Davies, organ

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This month's organ concert is given by Graham Davies, Organist and Choirmaster of St Mary & St Nicholas Church Leatherhead, and Organist of St Anthony's RC Church, Farnham Royal, Berkshire.

Last week Graham Davies gave the lunchtime organ concert at St Michael and All Angels, Croydon. In 2011 Graham's concerts included the new Skrabl organ at St Michael's the Archangel, Lyme Regis, a lunchtime concert on the Frobenius organ in Kingston Parish Church, a well-attended Sunday evening concert in St Paul's Cathedral, London and two further concerts in Chicago USA.

Further biographic details will be found on this link.

Thomas Parker Pipe Organ of 1766

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Any concert in which the restored 18th century Thomas Parker Pipe Organ is played has to acknowledge the instrument as one of the stars of the occasion. The parishioners and people of Leatherhead are justly proud of this historic instrument, and of the efforts they put into the fund-raising and many other arrangements for its restoration.

There is a great deal of coverage of the restoration project and of the history of organs in this church on the parish website at: http://www.parishchurch.leatherheadweb.org.uk/parkerorgan/.
This Music on Thursdays lunchtime concert is sponsored by Vecchia Trattoria.