Wednesday 18th July

12.30 Lunchtime Concert



Guest organist:

David Oldfield


Director of Music
St Luke's, Whyteleafe &
Stag Montem Chorem

Sponsors:
Julie West Solicitor

Supported by:
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society

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Programme 

Theodore Dubois (1837-1924)
from Douze pièces pour orgue ou piano-pédalier
No 3 Toccata in G

Dieterich Buxtehude (1637/39-1707)
Praeludium und Fuga in F BuxWV 145

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Fantasia in G minor TWV 33 No 8
Presto  - Cantabile

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Organ Sonata No 1 in F minor Op 65 (1844)
    1  Allegro moderato e serioso
    2 Adagio
    3 Andante. Recit.
    4 Allegro assai e vivace

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV 544 (1725-28)

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

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David Oldfield

David Oldfield was born and educated in Sheffield, at King Edward VII School. He was offered an unconditional place at the Royal Northern College of Music where he furthered his organ, singing and choral training studies.

David’s work in education has included time as Head of Music in a number of schools, several successful posts as organist and choirmaster and as a teacher of organ, piano and singing. An active organ recitalist, he has worked on Royal School of Church Music courses since 1977. More recently he has been a member of the Advisory Board to the RSCM Council as well as currently, an examiner for Bishops’ and Deans’ Awards.

David specialises in early music, Baroque music and 20th/21st century music but has an eclectic taste and wide repertoire outside this period. He made a special study of Tudor Church Music and also the vast choral repertoire of English Church Music.
 
David currently actively pursues his interests as a recitalist and is also interested in education and outreach. He is also involved with directing three choirs - particularly Stag Montem Chorem, who sing in cathedrals - as well a less formal connection with two others. 

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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 Timothy Guntrip's concert:


Theodore Dubois (1837-1924)
from Douze pièces pour orgue ou piano-pédalier
No 3 Toccata in G

At the organ of St Clotilde, Paris, we hear Olivier Penin

Dieterich Buxtehude (1637/39-1707)
Praeludium und Fuga in F  BuxWV 145

This 2014 recording is of Liza Zimina playing the Sauer organ in St Catherine's Lutheran Church, St Petersburg, Russia

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Fantasia in G minor TWV 33 No 8

Let's hear the fantasia's two movements on harpsichord, played by Lars Ulrik Mortensen

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Organ Sonata No 1 in F minor Op 65 (1844)

The performer here is Dénes Kapitany. There are two organs in the Cistercian Abbey in Zirc, Hungary. A 2004 Aquincum 2-manual Baroque organ, and the one we hear in this recording, the 1901 3-manual Rieger which was rebuilt in 1998

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV 544 (1725-28)

12 years after Bach's death the Bätz organ was installed in the Lutheran Church of the Hague, Netherlands.
Here it is played by Arjen Leistra

We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home

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Previous Concert

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Camille Marchant, flute
Thomas Ang, piano
courtesy of the
Royal Academy of Music
12.30 lunchtime
12 July 2018

Next Lunchtime Concert

Philip Haworth &
Rachel Broadbent
oboe duets
with accompanist
12.30 lunchtime
26 July 2018

2018 organ diary

Wednesdays at
Christ Church
2018
check out this year's varied rota of organists

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plus
this August
- a month of Early & Baroque music
in 5 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead

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