Wednesday 16th October


12.30 Lunchtime Concert




Guest organist:


Polina Sosnina



Organ Scholar, St Martin-in-the-Fields & the London Oratory
former Organ Scholar of Magdalene College, Cambridge

Sponsors:
Julie West Solicitor

Supported by:
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society

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Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV 543

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)  15m
Sonata No 6 in D minor Op 65 (1845)
    based on Luther's chorale Vater unser im Himmelreich
        1 Choral
        2 Andante sostenuto
        3 Allegro molto
        4 Fugue. Sostenuto e legato
        5 Finale. Andante

César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (1822-1890)
Prelude, Fugue and Variation in B minor FWV 30, Op 18 (1859-62)
    1 Andantino
    2 Lento
    3 Allegretto ma non troppo
    4 Andantino

Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
Paean (1966)


Concert duration: 35 - 45 minutes

Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the concert.

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Polina Sosnina

Polina Sosnina is the 2019-20 Pettman Organ Scholar at the London Oratory and Organ Scholar at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Since graduating from Magdalene College, Cambridge, where she read Natural Sciences alongside an organ scholarship, she has worked in various roles including the Walford-Davies Organ Scholarship at Temple Church in 2018-19, prior to which she was Director of Music at St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Brentwood. 

Polina is the Kenneth and Violet Scott Scholar at the Royal College of Music, where she is studying organ performance with David Graham and Andrew Dewar.

Her recent performances include a recital as part of the Bach Corner series in the 2019 International Organ Festival at St Albans, and recitals at other London venues including Temple Church and St Martin-in-the-Fields. She has also accompanied broadcasts and recordings for BBC Radio 4, as well as playing for regular services and concerts at St Martin's and the Oratory. 

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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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Next month's guest organist, on Wednesday October 16th, will be Polina Sosnina
Organ Scholar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and the Temple Church, EC4
former Organ Scholar, Magdalene College, Cambridge

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Concert at Home
Here are some links to online recordings of works that feature in Polina Sosnina's concert:


Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV 543

Our Concert at Home opens with a performance of this Bach Prelude and Fugue on the 1830 Bätz organ of Ronde Lutherse Kerk/Koepelkerk, Amsterdam. The 'Round' Church is no longer open to the public and has become a conference facility of the neighbouring Renaissance Amsterdam Hotel, to which is is connected by an underground tunnel.

The organist here is Matthias Havinga. Matthias is liturgical organist of the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam. He was involved in compiling the 2013 Dutch hymn book Liedboek voor huis en kerk (Songbook for home and church) which is used by most of the major protestant churches in the Netherlands. :

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Sonata No 6 in D minor Op 65 (1845)
    based on Luther's chorale Vater unser im Himmelreich
        1 Choral  •  2 Andante sostenuto  •  3 Allegro molto  •  4 Fugue. Sostenuto e legato  •  5 Finale. Andante

Here is a combination of instrument and player we have not heard before. Markéta Prokopovičová plays the 1886 Rieger organ in the beautiful Gothic St Wenceslas Cathedral, Olomouc (pronounced o-lo-mohts), Czech Republic:

César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (1822-1890)
Prelude, Fugue and Variation in B minor FWV 30, Op 18 (1859-62)
1 Andantino •  2 Lento  •  3 Allegretto ma non troppo  •  4 Andantino

Benedictine Father Ralph Greis plays this work on the 3-manual 1982 Oberlinger organ of
Dormition Abbey, Mount Zion, Jerusalem:

Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
Paean (1966)

In today's final recording, Lyndon Hills plays Leighton's Paean, on the organ of Preston Minster (St John the Evangelist Church), Preston. The organ has had a complicated history since the first installation in 1802. Lyndon Hills is now at King's School Gloucester.

We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home

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Previous Concert

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Spanish accordionist
Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade
12.30 lunchtime
10th October 2019

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Hammig String Quartet
Haydn • Webern • Wolf
12.30 lunchtime
24th October 2019

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