Wednesday 14th October 2015
12.30 Lunchtime Concert Graham Davies, organ Assistant Director of Music, Pinner Parish Church Programme Director, MoT & WaCC |
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society |
ProgrammeJ S Bach and His Connections Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Prelude in B minor BWV 544 Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Andante in D Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780) Fugue on B-A-C-H in Bb major Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) Praeludium in D BuxWV 139 Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Fugue Number 3 on BACH op 60 (1845) Georg Böhm (1661-1733) Vater unser im Himmelreich J S Bach Fugue in B minor BWV 544 |
Graham Davies
Graham Davies received his early musical training at Winchester Cathedral where he assisted and was a pupil of Graham Matthews and Martin Neary. Graham has held a number of important church appointments including Director of Music at Malvern Priory and Deputy Organist at Bath Abbey in 1994 where for seven years he was accompanist for the Abbey Girls’ Choir. In 2005 Graham was appointed to All Saints’ Clifton, in Bristol where he developed the music within an Anglo Catholic tradition, widening the repertoire and recruiting many new members to the choir. From 2005 to 2008 he was a regular accompanist for the Wells Cathedral Voluntary Choir. At this time he finished his business career to devote all his time to music. As well as being an organ recitalist, where Graham has given many concerts in churches and cathedrals throughout the UK, he has worked extensively as an accompanist with a variety of choirs, solo singers, and instrumentalists, most recently in vocal, flute, and cello duos on the harpsichord and organ. Graham is currently Organist and Assistant Director of Music at Pinner Parish Church, Middlesex. |
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The Christ Church organ was built by Hill, Norman & Beard in 1970 with 16 stops, using some pipes from previous organs plus some neo-baroque sounds typical of the 1960's and '70's (Chimney Flute and Fifteenth on open-foot voicing, like the Royal Festival Hall organ). In 1995, HNB moved some loud stops from the Great to a new double case in the nave, 6 stops were added, and the tone was refined. In summer 2015 the nave organ was re-voiced to produce a more robust tone. |
The Hill Norman & Beard organ at Christ Church (United Reformed), Leatherhead
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Concert at Home:
Here are some links to online recordings of works that feature in Graham Davies' concert:
Here are some links to online recordings of works that feature in Graham Davies' concert:
Graham Davies frames his concert today with Bach's Prelude and later his Fugue in B minor, BWV 544.
Here is a recording from Hedvig Eleonora Church, Stockholm, Sweden. The organist is Ulf Norberg.
The opening credits describe the piece in German as being in "H moll".
In German H is the note called B in Britain, and B would denote what we call B flat.
In this next recording Ulrik Spang-Hanssen plays Mendelssohn's Andante in D major on the Stumm organ in St Paul's Church, Kirchheimbolanden, in Germany's Rhineland. It is believed that Mozart played this organ in 1778 and so it is known as the Mozart-Orgel. In the recording Ulrik Spang-Hanssen continues with the Fughetta in D major.
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We remain in Germany for this performance of Johann Krebs' Fugue in Bb minor on B-A-C-H - a popular motif among friends and pupils of the great master. In most other European languages the notes are called Bb-A-C-B which is not nearly as useful.
This performance comes from North Germany, the Jacobikirche in Lübeck.
Friederich Stellwagen rebuilt and augmented the c1480 North Transept organ in the church and
then built a gallery organ that bears his name.
This performance comes from North Germany, the Jacobikirche in Lübeck.
Friederich Stellwagen rebuilt and augmented the c1480 North Transept organ in the church and
then built a gallery organ that bears his name.
Bernhard Hannöver opens Buxtehude's Prelude in D at a fairly leisurely pace here.
He is playing the Alfred-Führer-Organ in St Viktor Parish Church, Damme, West Flanders, Belgium.
He is playing the Alfred-Führer-Organ in St Viktor Parish Church, Damme, West Flanders, Belgium.
Robert Schumann's Fugue No 3 on the name of BACH is played here by Ben Sheen,
on the organ of Scotch College, Melbourne, Victoria.
This instrument was originally installed, by Hill, Norman & Beard, in Scots Church Assembly Hall, Sydney.
The button on the right will take you to a page that tells the interesting story of its removal
and re-installation, and giving the organ's registration.
The piece begins very quietly, in what is a fairly quiet recording.
on the organ of Scotch College, Melbourne, Victoria.
This instrument was originally installed, by Hill, Norman & Beard, in Scots Church Assembly Hall, Sydney.
The button on the right will take you to a page that tells the interesting story of its removal
and re-installation, and giving the organ's registration.
The piece begins very quietly, in what is a fairly quiet recording.
The Roman Catholic Church of the English Martyrs, Whalley Range, Manchester is the venue for our next recording.
This is Georg Böhm's Vater Unser in Himmelreich - Our Father in Heaven:
This is Georg Böhm's Vater Unser in Himmelreich - Our Father in Heaven:
As we have already heard both the Prelude and Fugue BWV 544, let's hear the Fugue on its own, this time in a piano transcription, played here on a Steinway Grand by Thomas Labé:
Here's an extra item I tripped over while searching for the videos above.
It's Spanish baroque composer José de Torres y Martinez Bravo, who lived from 1665 to 1738.
The piece is called Batalla de Torres - which translates as Torres' Battle! He called it Batalla on the Fifth Tone.
It's Spanish baroque composer José de Torres y Martinez Bravo, who lived from 1665 to 1738.
The piece is called Batalla de Torres - which translates as Torres' Battle! He called it Batalla on the Fifth Tone.
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home
