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Wednesday
20th September 12.30 Lunchtime Concert Graham Thorpe FRCO organ Pettman Organ Scholar, London Oratory, Brompton |
Sponsors: Patricia Morgan Optician Julie West Solicitor Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Programme
Dieterich Buxtehude (1637/39-1707)
Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV 149 Carlmann Kolb (1703-1765) Praeludium Tertium Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) from 11 Chorale Preludes for Organ, Op 122 (1896) iv) Herzlich tut mich erfreuen My faithful heart rejoices x) Herzlich tut mich verlangen My heart yearns Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933) from 3 Impressions for Organ, Op 72 (1909) 1 Harmonies du soir Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Variations on Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen S179 (1859) Prelude based on JS Bach's Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Weeping, Lamenting, Sorrows, Fears) BWV 12 |
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the concert.
Graham Thorpe
Graham Thorpe is a postgraduate organ student at the Royal College of Music in London. He is studying with David Graham, and is specialising in English Romantic repertoire. He completed his undergraduate degree at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied the organ with Susan Landale and Clive Driskill-Smith, and won several performance and academic prizes.
Graham has recently taken up the Pettman Organ Scholarship at the London Oratory where he accompanies the Oratory Junior Choir. Prior to this he was the assistant organist at St Michael's, Cornhill. Graham is in demand around the country as a recitalist and accompanist. Notable venues include St Paul's, Hereford, Guildford and Southwark Cathedrals.
Graham is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and recently won the Worshipful Company of Musicians F E Smith medal. He has been awarded a scholarship by the RCM and is the recipient of the RCO Peter Wiles Scholarship. He is passionate about liturgical accompaniment and wishes to return to cathedral music when he completes his studies in London.
Graham has recently taken up the Pettman Organ Scholarship at the London Oratory where he accompanies the Oratory Junior Choir. Prior to this he was the assistant organist at St Michael's, Cornhill. Graham is in demand around the country as a recitalist and accompanist. Notable venues include St Paul's, Hereford, Guildford and Southwark Cathedrals.
Graham is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and recently won the Worshipful Company of Musicians F E Smith medal. He has been awarded a scholarship by the RCM and is the recipient of the RCO Peter Wiles Scholarship. He is passionate about liturgical accompaniment and wishes to return to cathedral music when he completes his studies in London.
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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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Praeludium Tertium
Carlmann Kolb, a German priest, eighteenth century organist, name unknown amongst the greats, given voice, today is placed – early classical style of Bach (not J.S., but C.P.E.) Christ Church, Leatherhead, lunchtime, plays harmonies that blend and lead flowing gentle melodies, calm, predictable, and sweet. Suddenly, a cataclysm renders building’s fabric harsh, violently vibrates in stark discords; manic diminished sevenths crash chromatic resonance, charge the ears unbearably – chaos cascades from finger tips. Could a bottle of wine be spilt? Knocked right over in clumsy tilt – music score affected by Carlmann’s inebriated high. Mental suffering, perhaps, reveals an unexpected lapse. Out of character music goes; just why, we may never know, background shrouded in mystery; organ speaks of humble priest. Peter Horsfield 21/9/2017 Inspired by the lunchtime organ recital given by Graham Thorpe at Christ Church (United Reformed), Leatherhead, on 21st September 2017 |
Concert at Home:
Here are some links to online recordings of works that feature in Graham Thorpe's concert:
Here are some links to online recordings of works that feature in Graham Thorpe's concert:
Graham Thorpe opens his concert with Buxtehude's Praeludium in G minor BuxWV 149.
The player is Tigran Buniatyan, who is currently studying organ at Oberlin Music Conservatory, Oberlin, Ohio. The organ is the 1979 Flenstrop instrument in the Komitas Chamber Music Hall, Yerevan, Armenia:
The player is Tigran Buniatyan, who is currently studying organ at Oberlin Music Conservatory, Oberlin, Ohio. The organ is the 1979 Flenstrop instrument in the Komitas Chamber Music Hall, Yerevan, Armenia:
I'm not sure I have ever been quite this doubtful about including a particular recording in this section, however, there is very little Kolb online, and he receives the briefest of mentions in the English wikipedia.
Here then is a recording of Kolb's Praeludium, Versi, and Cadenza, with organist David Muñoz Alferéz at the Baroque organ in the Templo de San Antonio, Querétaro, Central Mexico:
Here then is a recording of Kolb's Praeludium, Versi, and Cadenza, with organist David Muñoz Alferéz at the Baroque organ in the Templo de San Antonio, Querétaro, Central Mexico:
Next follow two Chorale Preludes for Organ by Brahms.
First we hear Anne-Gaëlle Chanon at the Cavaillé-Coll organ in St-Omer Cathedral, France, playing
No 4, Herzlich tut mich erfreuen:
First we hear Anne-Gaëlle Chanon at the Cavaillé-Coll organ in St-Omer Cathedral, France, playing
No 4, Herzlich tut mich erfreuen:
For No 9 Herzlich tut mich verlangen we turn to New York's Central Synagogue where organist Nara Lee plays the Gallery Organ, built in 2002 by Casavant Frères, of Ste-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada:
Sigfrid Karg-Elert's Harmonies du Soir is played here by Thomas Wilhelm, on the 1880 Joseph Merklin organ in the Cathedral-Basilica at Moulins in the French Auvergne:
Our closing item is the longest work in today's recital.
This is Liszt's Prelude and Variations on a theme from Bach's Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen BWV 12.
The organist here is Stefano Faggioni playing the 6-manual 2003 Fisk organ in Lausanne Cathedral
which boasts a total of 7,396 pipes and is the first American organ to be installed in a European cathedral:
This is Liszt's Prelude and Variations on a theme from Bach's Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen BWV 12.
The organist here is Stefano Faggioni playing the 6-manual 2003 Fisk organ in Lausanne Cathedral
which boasts a total of 7,396 pipes and is the first American organ to be installed in a European cathedral:
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