Wednesday 19th September

12.30 Lunchtime Concert



Guest organist:

Hannah Parry

concert recitalist

Sponsors:
Julie West Solicitor

Supported by:
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society

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Programme 

Jean-Adam Guilain (c1680-1739)
Suite du premier ton (1706)
    Plein Jeu
    Trio
    Duo
    Basse de Trompette
    Récit
    Dialogue
    Petit Plein Jeu

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
Trio Sonata no 3 in D minor BWV 527
    Andante  D minor
    Adagio e dolce  F major
    Vivace  D minor

Arvo Pärt (b1935)
Pari Intervallo (1976, organ version 1980)

Hannah Parry (b1987)
Talaash

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
from Sonata 'Celtica' No 4 Op 153 (1920)
    III St Patrick’s Breastplate  Allegro maestoso


Concert duration: 40-45 minutes

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

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Hannah Parry

Hannah Parry is an organist, accompanist and choral conductor based in London. Hannah has a fantastically varied career which combines her professional musical activities with her passion for travel and writing.

Her music education began as a chorister at Norwich Cathedral and continued with Ann Elise Smoot at the Giles Junior Organ Conservatoire. She later studied organ performance at the Royal College of Music with David Graham, winning the Harold Darke Prize. After a Masters degree at Royal Holloway, University of London Hannah's freelance musical career has included church music posts at various London churches (most recently St Michael's Highgate) as well as accompaniment opportunities with choirs and choral societies.

Teaching and outreach work with adults and children have featured highly and this has led to close links with the Temple Church and the Union Chapel, Islington. Hannah also regularly performs as a soloist up and down the UK including St Paul's, Bradford and Norwich Cathedrals.  

Hannah also loves to travel and write about her experiences on her blog which can be found at www.hannahparry.co.uk/hannah-the-traveller

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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 Hannah Parry's concert:


Jean-Adam Guilain (c1680-1739)
Suite du premier ton (1706)
    Plein Jeu
    Trio
    Duo
    Basse de Trompette
    Récit
    Dialogue
    Petit Plein Jeu

Today's first work comes from the Abbey of Bellelay, Switzerland. Their 2009 Kuhn organ is built in the Bossard, with 3 manuals and 26 stops, and here the organist is Lorenzo Antinori:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
Trio Sonata no 3 in D minor BWV 527
    Andante  D minor
    Adagio e dolce  F major
    Vivace  D minor

For the Bach we turn to Ton Koopman at the Schnitger organ in St Jacobi Church, Hamburg, with the first two movements on the left and the Vivace on the right:

Arvo Pärt (b1935)
Pari Intervallo (1976, organ version 1980)

The organist here is Hans Davidsson, professor of organ at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen, and at the Bremen Hochscule für Künste.
The 1992 organ was built by Glauco Gilhardi, in 16th century Flemish style, although it is not a copy of any particular instrument. It is in the Sta Maria Assunta Church, Smarano, to the north of Italy's Lake Garda:

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
from Sonata 'Celtica' No 4 Op 153 (1920)
    III St Patrick’s Breastplate  Allegro maestoso

Our final organist is Peter Thompson, performing here on the 1840 Walker organ in St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh where he is Assistant Organist and Succentor (deputy to the Precentor, responsible for church music).
Peter has held some significant organ posts in Belfast and in Dublin, where he attended the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He is also Rector of two Church of Ireland parishes, St Michael's Castlecaufield, and St Patrick's Donaghmore:

We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home

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Music on Thursdays at LMC
Czigány Quartet
music of Haydn ♦ Brahms
courtesy of the
Royal Academy of Music
12.30 lunchtime
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