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Wednesday 17th May 2017
12.30 Lunchtime Concert Gillian Lloyd, organ Concert Recitalist, Organist & Director of Music of Guildford United Reformed Church |
Sponsors:
2017 Season Sponsor: Patricia Morgan Optician Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
John Stanley (1712-1786)
Voluntary in G major Op 7 No 9 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Trio Sonata No 5 in C major BWV 529 Allegro Largo Allegro Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) from Organ Sonata No 4 in Bb major Op 65 No 4 (1845) 3 Allegretto in F Norman Cocker (1889-1953) Tuba Tune (1929) Jeffrey M Lloyd (b1949) Partita on St Columba Louis Vierne (1870-1937) from Organ Symphony No 1 in D minor 6 Finale |
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the concert.
Gillian Lloyd
Gillian Lloyd was born in Portsmouth. She began piano studies at the age of six,
taking up the ‘cello at eleven. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music with
Sidney Harrison and Derek Simpson, and subsequently worked for some years as a
‘cello teacher for Hampshire Education Authority.
Gillian began to play the organ as an adult, studying with Carey Humphreys and Jack Evans, and more recently with Andrew Millington, Anne Marsden Thomas and Stephen Farr. She holds the FRCO and LRAM (organ teaching) diplomas. Gillian came to Guildford in 1988, upon her marriage to Jeff (at Holy Trinity Church, where Gillian played the organ), and was appointed Organist and Choirmaster (later Director of Music) at Guildford URC.
She has given a number of recitals in the Guildford area and in some of the London churches, including Southwark Cathedral, in addition to her church work and private teaching.
taking up the ‘cello at eleven. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music with
Sidney Harrison and Derek Simpson, and subsequently worked for some years as a
‘cello teacher for Hampshire Education Authority.
Gillian began to play the organ as an adult, studying with Carey Humphreys and Jack Evans, and more recently with Andrew Millington, Anne Marsden Thomas and Stephen Farr. She holds the FRCO and LRAM (organ teaching) diplomas. Gillian came to Guildford in 1988, upon her marriage to Jeff (at Holy Trinity Church, where Gillian played the organ), and was appointed Organist and Choirmaster (later Director of Music) at Guildford URC.
She has given a number of recitals in the Guildford area and in some of the London churches, including Southwark Cathedral, in addition to her church work and private teaching.
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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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Organ Concert Sequence (Pantoum)
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Gently flowing semiquavers, Double manual; Pedals dance by nimble feet, On long and lanky limbs. At the double manual, Red jumper and black pleated skirt Clothe the long and lanky limbs, While she plays off-beat and percussive rhythms. In red jumper and black pleated skirt She moves, at times flamboyantly. Her off-beat and percussive rhythms Relax into a smooth legato. She moves, at times flamboyantly; Speed and crescendo build, Replace relaxed and smooth legato In hanging suspense. Crunchy final chord Concludes the build of speed and crescendo, On pedals danced by nimble feet; The hanging suspense of crunchy final chord Now ends the flow of semiquavers. Peter Horsfield 24/5/2017 Inspired by the lunchtime organ recital given by Gillian Lloyd at Christ Church United Reformed Church, Leatherhead, on 17th May 2017 |
Concert at Home:
Here are some links to online recordings of works that feature in David Oldfield's concert:
Here are some links to online recordings of works that feature in David Oldfield's concert:
Gillian Lloyd opens her recital with John Stanley's Voluntary in G major. The recording here shows Lorenzo Fragassi seated at several instruments. He is in fact playing the 2-manual 2002 Ponziano instrument in the Cathedral of S Giuseppe, Vasto, on the Adriatic coast in southern Italy.
The major work in today's recital is JS Bach's Trio Sonata No 5 in C major.
In the video on the left you will be able to see and hear Ulrich Böhme, Organist of Bach's Thomaskirche in Leipzig, at the Jehmlich organ of the Church of St Anne, Budapest.
On the right you will be able to follow the score as you listen to a performance by Marie-Claire Alain.
In the video on the left you will be able to see and hear Ulrich Böhme, Organist of Bach's Thomaskirche in Leipzig, at the Jehmlich organ of the Church of St Anne, Budapest.
On the right you will be able to follow the score as you listen to a performance by Marie-Claire Alain.
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From Mendelssohn's Organ Sonata No 4 in Bb major we will hear the third movement, a lovely Allegretto. The organist in this recording is Stephen Buzzard at the organ
of Our Lady of Refuge Church, Brooklyn, New York:
of Our Lady of Refuge Church, Brooklyn, New York:
James Vivian is the organist in this next recording, from the 1926 Harrison & Harrison organ in London's Temple Church. He plays Norman Cocker's Tuba Tune:
Jeffrey Lloyd's Partita proved difficult to find, so here at least is the hymn tune on which it is based.
St Columba is played here on the 4-manual Skinner organ in
Old South Church (United Church of Christ), Boston, Massachusetts:
St Columba is played here on the 4-manual Skinner organ in
Old South Church (United Church of Christ), Boston, Massachusetts:
Gillian Lloyd's closing work is the familiar and rather grand Finale from Louis Vierne's
Organ Symphony No 1 in D minor. Here Ulf Norberg is playing the 1969 Grönlunds organ in
Hedvig Eleonora Church, Stockholm (Queen Hedvig Eleonora Church).
The organ contains several ranks from its predecessor 1868 Per Larsson Åkermans organ.
Organ Symphony No 1 in D minor. Here Ulf Norberg is playing the 1969 Grönlunds organ in
Hedvig Eleonora Church, Stockholm (Queen Hedvig Eleonora Church).
The organ contains several ranks from its predecessor 1868 Per Larsson Åkermans organ.
Our concert next month, on Wednesday June 14th, sees the return of trumpeter Gwyn Owen with accompanist Rebecca Taylor. Last year the duo played duets for trumpet and piano, but as Rebecca is organist and Director of Music at St Philip's Earls Court Road, we have invited them to bring us a concert of music for organ and trumpet.
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home
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