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Wednesday 15th March 2017
12.30 Lunchtime Concert Jonathan Melling, organ Director of Music All Hallows by the Tower, London EC |
Sponsors:
2017 Season Sponsor: Patricia Morgan Optician Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
Gordon Phillips (1908-1991)
Organist of All Hallows by the Tower 1956-1991
from Tower Hill Suite
Air and Gavotte
Johann Gottfried Walther (1684-1748)
Concerto del Signor Meck LV 134
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
from Hunting Cantata BWV 208 (1713)
Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd - The lively hunt is my heart's desire
9 Schafe können sicher weiden - Sheep may safely graze
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Prelude and Fugue in C minor op 37/1
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901)
Organ Sonata No 16 in G# minor, 'Skandinavisch', op 175 (1893)
Percy Eastman Fletcher (1879-1932)
Matinale for Organ
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
i) from Six Short Preludes and Postludes op 101
6 Postlude: Founded on an old Irish church melody (St Columba)
(The King of love my Shepherd is)
ii) from Six Short Preludes and Postludes op 105
6 Postlude: Allegro
Organist of All Hallows by the Tower 1956-1991
from Tower Hill Suite
Air and Gavotte
Johann Gottfried Walther (1684-1748)
Concerto del Signor Meck LV 134
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
from Hunting Cantata BWV 208 (1713)
Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd - The lively hunt is my heart's desire
9 Schafe können sicher weiden - Sheep may safely graze
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Prelude and Fugue in C minor op 37/1
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901)
Organ Sonata No 16 in G# minor, 'Skandinavisch', op 175 (1893)
Percy Eastman Fletcher (1879-1932)
Matinale for Organ
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
i) from Six Short Preludes and Postludes op 101
6 Postlude: Founded on an old Irish church melody (St Columba)
(The King of love my Shepherd is)
ii) from Six Short Preludes and Postludes op 105
6 Postlude: Allegro
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the concert.
Jonathan Melling
Jonathan Melling was born in Wigan, Lancashire. After holding church appointments in the area he eventually studied in London with Gordon Phillips during which time he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. Whilst still a student Jonathan was director of music at the Church of The Annunciation, Marble Arch and afterwards at St Michael’s, Barnes. Subsequently he became assistant organist of Wimborne Minster in Dorset.
At the invitation of the then Director, Dr W S Lloyd Webber, Jonathan served on the professorial staff of the London College of Music where he taught a range of theoretical work and became an examiner. Later he was responsible for the teaching of organ at the College.
Jonathan has given recitals in many churches throughout England and in Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. Internationally, he has performed in Germany, Belgium, Singapore and the USA. In the Summer of 2008 he undertook a tour of North America playing recitals in Boston, Reno (Nevada) and San Mateo near San Francisco. More recently he has played at the cathedral in Ieper, Belgium and in southern Germany.
Now concentrating on performing, Jonathan is organist and director of music at the church of All Hallows by the Tower in the City of London where, in addition to the weekly Sunday Eucharist, he is responsible for the music at many livery-company and commemorative services. He also arranges Thursday lunchtime organ recitals at the church.
At the invitation of the then Director, Dr W S Lloyd Webber, Jonathan served on the professorial staff of the London College of Music where he taught a range of theoretical work and became an examiner. Later he was responsible for the teaching of organ at the College.
Jonathan has given recitals in many churches throughout England and in Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. Internationally, he has performed in Germany, Belgium, Singapore and the USA. In the Summer of 2008 he undertook a tour of North America playing recitals in Boston, Reno (Nevada) and San Mateo near San Francisco. More recently he has played at the cathedral in Ieper, Belgium and in southern Germany.
Now concentrating on performing, Jonathan is organist and director of music at the church of All Hallows by the Tower in the City of London where, in addition to the weekly Sunday Eucharist, he is responsible for the music at many livery-company and commemorative services. He also arranges Thursday lunchtime organ recitals at the church.
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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 Jonathan Melling's concert:
Here are some links to online recordings of works that feature in Jonathan Melling's concert:
Jonathan Melling opens his concert with the Air and Gavotte from the Tower Hill Suite, composed by his predecessor at All Hallows by the Tower, Gordon Phillips. We have not found the Tower Hill Suite online, so here to give you a feel for the composer's work is his Prelude on O Little Town of Bethlehem:
Jacques van Oortmerssen is the organist in this recording of Johann Gottfried Walther's Concerto del Signor Meck.
Walther was a cousin and almost exact contemporary of JS Bach:
Walther was a cousin and almost exact contemporary of JS Bach:
For the very familiar Sheep May Safely Graze we need a rather special recording. Here is Willem van Twillert at the 1743 Hinsz organ, in the Upper Church of St Nicholas, or Bovenkerk, in Kampen, Netherlands:
For Mendelssohn's C minor Prelude and Fugue our organist is Jakub Kwintal, playing in the 2012 Bochum Organ Day.
This is the organ in St Joseph's Church, Bochum-Mitte, Germany.
This is the organ in St Joseph's Church, Bochum-Mitte, Germany.
Here Bastian Fuchs plays the new Mathis organ in St Anton Church, Ingolstadt, in November 2016.
The work is Rheinberger's 'Skandinavisch' organ sonata:
The work is Rheinberger's 'Skandinavisch' organ sonata:
A recording of Matinale proved elusive, so here instead to give you a flavour of Percy Fletcher's work is his Postlude Op 27,
played by Canon Ronald Frost on the 4-manual organ of St Ann's Manchester.
With parts dating from 1730 this organ has had an interesting history.
The trail, on the National Pipe Organ Register, begins here: http://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=E00255
played by Canon Ronald Frost on the 4-manual organ of St Ann's Manchester.
With parts dating from 1730 this organ has had an interesting history.
The trail, on the National Pipe Organ Register, begins here: http://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=E00255
Jonathan Melling rounds off today's recital with two pieces by Charles Villiers Stanford.
First this Postlude on an old Irish church melody.
The organist is the Rev Dr Peter Thompson, Assistant Organist of Armagh Cathedral, Northern Ireland, although he isn't playing the cathedral's 3-manual Walker organ.
First this Postlude on an old Irish church melody.
The organist is the Rev Dr Peter Thompson, Assistant Organist of Armagh Cathedral, Northern Ireland, although he isn't playing the cathedral's 3-manual Walker organ.
Here's our finale for today. It is Stanford's Postlude in D, No 6 Allegro, from the second set of Preludes and Postludes, op 105.
The organist is Merton College Oxford Organ Scholar Peter Shepherd. You can see photos and read more about the American Dobson organ at Merton here: http://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=E01981
The organist is Merton College Oxford Organ Scholar Peter Shepherd. You can see photos and read more about the American Dobson organ at Merton here: http://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=E01981
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home
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