Wednesdays at Christ Church
Hill, Norman & Beard organ
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Wednesday 17th April 12.30 Lunchtime Concert Guest organist: Mark Brafield Organ Recitalist |
Sponsors:
Julie West Solicitor Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
Kenneth Leighton (1929–1988)
Paean Georg Böhm (1661–1733) Vater unser in Himmelreich Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) Sonata No 3 in A Con moto maestoso ~ Andante tranquillo Toon Hagen (b 1960) Vater unser in Himmelreich Chorale and 4 Minimalist Variations Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) Prelude in f minor (BWV 534 i) Ich rufʼ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (BWV 639) Fugue in f minor (BWV 534 ii) 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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Mark Brafield
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MARK BRAFIELD has studied the organ with Robert Munns, David Sanger and Dame Gillian Weir. He held an Organ Scholarship with a Scholarship in English Literature at Trinity College, Oxford, and is a Fellow and Trustee of the Royal College of Organists.
Mark combines a legal profession with a career as a concert organist. He appears widely at leading venues in this country including St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey and is increasingly active overseas, with recitals having included the Leonardskirche in Basle, St Thomas’s, Fifth Avenue, New York and Notre Dame de Paris. |
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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 Mark Brafield's concert:
Here are some links to online recordings of works that feature in Mark Brafield's concert:
Kenneth Leighton (1929–1988)
Paean
The first recording for this concert is by Robert Smith, when he was Organ Scholar of Somerville College, Oxford, He is currently Assistant Director of Music at St Wilfrid's Church, the York Oratory:
Paean
The first recording for this concert is by Robert Smith, when he was Organ Scholar of Somerville College, Oxford, He is currently Assistant Director of Music at St Wilfrid's Church, the York Oratory:
Georg Böhm (1661–1733)
Vater unser in Himmelreich
The organist here is Mami Nagata, playing the 1992 2-manual Mühleisen organ in the Schlosskirche Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany. The chapel of this rococo style castle (Schloss) was built in the 18th century as a private Roman Catholic chapel for the Dukes of Württemberg. The castle fell into disrepair in the 20th century and was restored in the 1980s. The chapel is now in the Evangelical tradition, and the new organ sits behind the altar table:
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
Sonata No 3 in A
Con moto maestoso ~ Andante tranquillo
The recording on the left is of Ab Wegenaar playing on the Hinsz organ of the Bovenkerk (Upper Church) of St Nicholas, in Kampen, Netherlands.
On the right, you can enjoy following the score as Peter Hurford plays the Sonata on the Rieger organ at Ratzeburg Cathedral, Germany:
Sonata No 3 in A
Con moto maestoso ~ Andante tranquillo
The recording on the left is of Ab Wegenaar playing on the Hinsz organ of the Bovenkerk (Upper Church) of St Nicholas, in Kampen, Netherlands.
On the right, you can enjoy following the score as Peter Hurford plays the Sonata on the Rieger organ at Ratzeburg Cathedral, Germany:
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Toon Hagen (b 1960)
Vater unser in Himmelreich - Chorale and 4 Minimalist Variations
On the left, Dr Homer A Ferguson III plays Toon Hagen's set of variations on the 91-rank Berghaus Organ at La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church, Scottsdale, Arizona
As a little treat, I have added on the right Toon Hagen improvising in December 2018 at the end of the final concert before restoration of the Schnitge organ in the Grote (Great Church) or Sint Michaëlskerk, Zwolle, Netherlands:
Vater unser in Himmelreich - Chorale and 4 Minimalist Variations
On the left, Dr Homer A Ferguson III plays Toon Hagen's set of variations on the 91-rank Berghaus Organ at La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church, Scottsdale, Arizona
As a little treat, I have added on the right Toon Hagen improvising in December 2018 at the end of the final concert before restoration of the Schnitge organ in the Grote (Great Church) or Sint Michaëlskerk, Zwolle, Netherlands:
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Ich rufʼ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (BWV 639)
Iddo van der Giessen plays the Duyschot/Vater organ (41 IIIP) in the Westerkerk in Amsterdam.
Iddo van der Giessen (born 1995) has been playing the organ since the age of six when he was taught by his father Jaap van der Giessen and by Ronald de Jong, organist at the Oude Kerk, Zoetermeer. Since 2013 he has been studying organ at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Jos van der Kooy, organist at the Westerkerk in Amsterdam and city-organist in Haarlem.
Iddo studies Church Music at the Codarts Conservatory in Rotterdam. He attended masterclasses with, among others, Ludger Lohmann and Leo van Doeselaar. In 2016 he graduated cum laude from Leiden University College in The Hague. Here he studied Liberal Arts & Sciences: Global Challenges with a major in World Politics.
In 2017 Iddo performed all the Bach trio sonatas and the Mendelssohn organ sonatas in a series of six concerts in Amsterdam's Westerkerk. At the time of the recodingin 2017 Iddo van der Giessen was organist at the Reformed Church in Bergschenhoek and the Protestant church De Oase (The Oasis) in Zoetermeer. In October 2017 he was appointed cantor-organist at the Goede Herderkerk (Churvch of the Good Shepherd) in Rotterdam Schiebroek, where he has a three-manual Van Leeuwen/Kramer organ at his disposal.:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Prelude in f minor (BWV 534)
Ulf Norberg is the organist in this recording of the Prelude and Fugue in f minor. He is playing the organ of the octagonal (Queen) Hedvig Eleonora Church, Stockholm, Sweden. The original organ was acquired from the Maria-Magdalena-Church in Södermalm in the 1730s. Much enhanced over the centuries, the latest additions by Grönlund in 1995 include computerisation with 6,400 pre-programmable combinations, and the instrument still sits behind the beautiful original 1730s Adelcrantz casing:
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
Camilla Marchant, flute courtesy of Royal Academy of Music Thomas Ang, piano 12.30 lunchtime 11th April 2019 |
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