Organ recital & Pinner Parish Choir Soloists

Martin Singleton (organ) & Pinner Parish Choir Musicians

 

 

Léon Boëllmann - Suite Gothique   

Introduction - Choral

Menuet gothique

Traditional

Twinkle, twinkle, little star     Harmonica

John Williams

Across the stars                    Cornet

Lionel Bart

Who will buy? (from Oliver!)   Voice

John Hawkins

Samba-Cha                           Trumpet

Léon Boëllmann - Suite Gothique

Prière à Notre-Dame

Toccata

Elgar

Salut d'Amour                        Piano

Vivaldi

Allegro from Violin Concerto in G major, RV 310

Mozart

Contredance                           Violin

Vivaldi

Allegro from Sonata No 5      'Cello

Samuel Sebastian Wesley

Choral Song and Fugue

Bohm

Sarabande in G minor            Violin

Carl Webster

Scherzo                                   'Cello

 

INTERVAL

 

Louis-Nicholas Clérambault - Suite du Premier Ton (5 of 7 movements)

Grand Plein Jeu

Duo

Basse et Dessus de Trompette ou de cornet séparé

Récits de cromorne et de cornet séparé

Dialogue sur les grands jeux

Einaudi

Nuvole Bianche                               Piano

John Rutter

A Clare Benediction                        Voice

Debussy

Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum         Piano

Johann Sebastian Bach

Prelude and Fugue in C minor BWV 546

Gluck

O del mio dolce ardor                      Voice

Errol Garner

Misty                                                Voice

Henri Mulet

Carillon-Sortie in D

 

We had been hoping very much that choir performances would be allowed by June, to enable us to highlight as usual our local talent in the Parish Church Choir for this Tuesday concert. Sadly, this was not possible due to Covid-19 restrictions. Instead, Martin Singleton has kindly agreed to perform this lovely organ recital, interspersed with selected solos by some of the younger choir members.

Martin has chosen organ works that suit the particular characteristics of the organ at St John’s Church. It is a splendid and balanced selection, including several that you may recognise from organ voluntaries, even if you don’t know them by name. The beautiful, prayerful third movement of Boëllmann’s Suite Gothique is a good example. Although SS Wesley was the supreme cathedral organist of Victorian England, this work was written for a chamber organ, yet it is in his typical style. We shall hear 5 of the 7 short movements of Clérambault’s Suite on the First Tone, a work full of melody and charm. The Prelude and Fugue BWV 546 for organ by JS Bach is ideally suited to the instrument, with a quite magisterial Prelude, while the Fugue has much intricacy and invention. The recital ends with Mulet’s (1878-1967) Carillon Sortie – a splendid exit to a delightful carillon bell-like pattern, initially played quite lightly, but building to a great climax.

Young musicians from Pinner Parish Church Choir have enthusiastically submitted solo works, to be accompanied by Martin Singleton on piano, to take the place of their choral concert. We shall hear a wide range of works and styles to showcase another aspect of their emerging musicianship by, among others, Vivaldi, Einaudi, Rutter, and Gluck.