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BLOOMSBURY CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH 235 SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, LONDON WC2H 8EP GRAND ORGUE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY EXPLORED SATURDAY 28th JANUARY 2012, 2pm - 7pm RECITALS THREE 30 MINUTE RECITALS WILL GIVE AN OVERALL IMPRESSION OF THE PERIOD AND ITS MUSIC: Mo Wha Chan (Organ Scholar - St Maryʼs Cathedral, Edinburgh) French Music - 2:00 Jonathan Hope (Organ Scholar - Southwark Cathedral) English Music - 3:15 Tim Wakerell (Sub-Organist - St Paulʼs Cathedral) German Music - 4:30 The day will end with a 60 minute recital at 6:00pm: Gerard Brooks (Central Hall, Westminster) A Survey of the Period in Sound PRESENTATIONS THREE 30 Minute PRESENTATIONS WILL LOOK AT RELATED TOPICS TO THE RECITAL MATERIAL: WILL FRASER (FUGUE STATE FILMS) - CAPTURING CAVAILLEʼ-COLL ON DVD - 2:30 THE RHINEGOLD SINGERS - CHORAL MUSIC OF THE PERIOD - 3:45 GERARD BROOKS - THE OVERALL BACKGROUND - 5:00 DISPLAYS THERE WILL BE DISPLAYS OF/BY ORGAN RELATED ORGANISATIONS, BOOKS, MUSIC, CDs REFRESHMENTS ONGOING DURING THE AFTERNOON. A BOOKABLE BUFFET AT 5:30PM COST FOR THE AFTERNOON RECITALS AND DISPLAYS - FREE (BUT WITH AN ONGOING COLLECTION) THE BUFFET - £5 CONCLUDING GERARD BROOKS RECITAL - £5 DETAILED INFORMATION http://www.organists...org/grand.orgue Please let Philip Luke know -philipluke@waitrose.com or phone 01953 688393 if you would like to book a buffet meal in advance or for any further information.

Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 235 Shaftesbury Avenue LONDON WC2H 8EP Saturday 26th November at 4:00pm Organ Recital by David Dunnett Organist, Norwich Cathedral Fanfare John Cook (1918-84) Concerto in D Minor BWV 596 arr J S Bach A Vivaldi (1678-1741) Priere J Jongen (1873-1953) Toccata & Fugue in D minor / major M Reger (1873-1916) Elegiac Romance John Ireland (1879-1962) Handel in The Strand arr Stockmeier P Grainger (1882-1961) Variations on an old Noel M Dupré (1886-1971) Admission free, retiring collection, special Christmas Tea! David Dunnett was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Clare College, Cambridge where he assisted Tim Brown and studied the organ with John Pryer, John Bishop and David Sanger. He continued studying with David Sanger as a postgraduate at the Royal Academy of Music and also spent a year as Organist of Marylebone Parish Church. He worked in the United States as Director of Chapel Music and Staff Accompanist at the College of Wooster, Ohio, before becoming Assistant Director of Music at Uppingham School. He became Sub-Organist at Winchester Cathedral in November 1991 and subsequently performed with Winchester Cathedral Choir in concerts, broadcasts, recordings and tours to Brazil, USA and Australia. He assisted David Hill with the Waynflete Singers, taught at Southampton University and is a previous conductor of the Southampton University Chamber Choir and Winchester Music Club. He is a busy organ recitalist both here and abroad and also regularly accompanies singers and instrumentalists on the organ, harpsichord and piano. He features on numerous recordings as conductor, soloist and accompanist and has given recitals in Europe, USA and Russia. He became Organist and Master of the Music at Norwich Cathedral in January 1996. He is the Choral Conductor of the Norwich Philharmonic Society, a previous part time lecturer at the UEA and a busy examiner. For more information phone: 020 7240 0544 or www.bloomsbury.org.uk The organ amalgamates two redundant Binns instruments: Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Watford and St Augustine's Tonge Moor, Bolton; a small amount of non-Binns pipework has been retained. The imaginative scheme has been carried out by B.C. Shepherd and Sons in collaboration with J.H. Males. Details of the organ on the NPOR at: www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=P00257

Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 235 Shaftesbury Avenue LONDON WC2H 8EP (nearest Underground: Tottenham Court Road, Holborn) Saturday 29th October at 4:00pm Organ Recital by SIMON HOGAN Organ Scholar - St Paul's Cathedral FRANCIS POTT (1957 -) TOCCATA FRANK BRIDGE (1879 - 1941) ADAGIO J.S. BACH (1685 - 1750) PRELUDE and FUGUE IN G (BWV 531) LOUIS VIERNE (1870 - 1937) ALLEGRETTO IN B MINOR C-M WIDOR (1844 - 1937) SYMPHONY no. 6 Allegro - Adagio - Intermezzo - Vivace Admission free, retiring collection, buffet. Simon Hogan currently holds the organ scholarship at St Paul’s Cathedral; a post which he combines with the final year of his studies at the Royal College of Music. Born and educated in Bristol, Simon has been passionate about cathedral music since becoming a chorister at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. There, as a young boy, he spent four years singing three weekly choral services, touring, recording, and nurturing his increasing interest in the organ; this culminated in him becoming the church’s first Organ Student at the age of 16. Whilst still at school Simon became Organ Scholar at Bristol Cathedral, and was subsequently awarded the organ scholarship at Salisbury Cathedral. During his year in Salisbury, Simon regularly accompanied the cathedral choir, gave recitals on the renowned Willis organ, and worked in the Cathedral School. Upon leaving Salisbury, Simon took up a scholarship to read Music at the Royal College of Music, and became Organist of Ealing Abbey Choir, where he was responsible for accompanying the Abbey Choir and assisting the Director of Music in the training of the choristers. He combined this with the organ scholarship at King’s College, London. In July 2011 Simon took up the organ scholarship at St Paul’s Cathedral, where he regularly accompanies the world-famous choir and gives recitals on the cathedral organ. As a recitalist, Simon has performed a wide and varied repertoire in venues around the UK, including the cathedrals of Norwich, Westminster and Truro, Westminster Abbey, St Martin-in-the-Fields, and St John’s College, Cambridge. He has also given recitals on two successive congresses with the Incorporated Association of Organists. As an accompanist, Simon has featured on a number of commercial recordings, and toured as both accompanist and singer to Russia, Venice, USA, France and Vienna. 2008 saw the debut concert of Simon’s choir The Hogan Ensemble, a chamber choir comprising up to twenty young singers. Since then, the group has performed a diverse and exciting repertoire to audiences around the South of England and recorded a commercial disc which has received favourable reviews. For more information phone: 020 7240 0544 or www.bloomsbury.org.uk The organ amalgamates two redundant Binns instruments: Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Watford and St Augustine's Tonge Moor, Bolton.A small amount of non-Binns pipework has been retained.The imaginative scheme has been carried out by B.C. Shepherd and Sons in collaboration with J.H. Males. Details of the organ on the NPOR at: www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=P00257

Now there's a thought, but it would clash with the rest of the Church. Why not come along on Saturday and see if you can find out? John

Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 235 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8EP Saturday 24th September at 4:00pm ORGAN RECITAL by Graham Barber (St Bartholomew's, Armley, Leeds) Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877 – 1933) Chorale Prelude: O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort , Op.65, No. 42 Fantasy and Fugue in D major, Op. 39B Wolfgang Stockmeier (b. 1931) Six Preludes (Reflections on Karg-Elert) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750), completed W. Stockmeier Fantasy and Fugue in C minor, BWV 562 Wolfgang Stockmeier (b. 1931) Chorale Prelude: O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (Toccata française) Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877 – 1933) Gregorian Rhapsody, Op.141, No.2 Admission free, retiring collection, buffet. Since his solo début in London at the Royal Festival Hall, Graham Barber has been constantly in demand as one of Britain's leading concert organists. Reviewing his first recording the Sunday Times described him as ‘a technically brilliant, musically mature organist.’ He has made many subsequent recordings both in English cathedrals (Coventry, Norwich, Salisbury, Hereford, Ripon and Truro) and in German and Dutch cathedrals and churches (Altenberg, Ingolstadt, Osnabrück, Limburg, Villingen, Leeuwarden and Schagen), and has been described in Gramophone magazine as ‘one of the organ world's finest recording artists.’ Graham Barber has played in most major venues in Britain, as well as in Europe, the Far East, Australia and the United States, and has made many radio broadcasts. Recent concerts have been at the Smetana Hall (Prague), St. Michael’s Church (Leipzig), the Elder Hall (Adelaide), Stanford University (California), Grace Cathedral (San Francisco), King’s College (Cambridge), Santa Cruz (Braga, Portugal), Lillehammer (Norway), Notre Dame (Paris) and Himmerod Abbey (Germany). Recording projects for Priory Records have included music by Herbert Howells, the complete organ works of Percy Whitlock, 17/18th-century German and Dutch music on the Müller organ of the Jacobijnerkerk, Leeuwarden, and Edwardian Music at Ripon Cathedral. For ASV he has recorded music by J.S.Bach, Böhm, Buxtehude, and Krebs, and for Hyperion by Reger, Franz Schmidt and Victorian composers. His most recent recording is of works by Henry Smart for Amphion. Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds, Graham Barber has given masterclasses in Weimar, Enschede, Braga, Lisbon, Cologne and Lillehammer. He is organist at St. Bartholomew's Church, Armley. His DVD Organ Story charting the restoration of the renowned Schulze organ there, and featuring a performance of the Reubke Sonata, has been critically acclaimed. From 2006 – 2009 Graham Barber was the recipient of a prestigious Fellowship from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts which allowed him to explore innovative ways of presenting the organ in performance. For more information phone: 020 7240 0544 or www.bloomsbury.org.uk The organ amalgamates two redundant Binns instruments: Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Watford and St Augustine's Tonge Moor, Bolton. A small amount of non-Binns pipework has been retained. The imaginative scheme has been carried out by B.C. Shepherd and Sons in collaboration with J.H. Males. Details of the organ on the NPOR at: http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi...ec_index=P00257

Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 235 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8EP Saturday July 30th at 4:00pm ORGAN RECITAL by Timothy Wakerell Sub-Organist, St Paul’s Cathedral Tonstuck No.1 in F (Op. 22) Niels Gade (1817-90) Sonata in C major Franz Xaver Schnizer (1740-85) Allegro – Minuetto & Trio – Intermezzo – Presto Fantasia and Fugue in G minor (BWV 542) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Fantaisie in E flat Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Sonata on the 94th Psalm Julius Reubke (1834-58) Admission free, retiring collection, buffet. For more information phone: 020 7240 0544 or www.bloomsbury.org.uk The organ amalgamates two redundant Binns instruments: Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Watford and St Augustine's Tonge Moor, Bolton. A small amount of non-Binns pipework has been retained. The imaginative scheme has been carried out by B.C. Shepherd and Sons in collaboration with J.H. Males. Details of the organ on the NPOR at: http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi...ec_index=P00257

BLOOMSBURY BAPTIST CHURCH on Saturday 30th April at 4pm ORGAN RECITAL by Raúl Prieto Ramírez, National Concert Hall, Madrid One of Europe's most acclaimed young virtuoso organists making a rare London appearance. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Prelude on 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland' (BWV 659) Prelude and Fugue in D Major (BWV 532) Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Danse Macabre (arr. Lemare) Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) Suite pour orgue Op 5 (1933) Prélude - Sicilienne - Toccata Franz Liszt (1811-1886) 1. Concert Study No 2 in F minor S144 'La leggierezza' (arr. Raúl Prieto) 2.Transcendental Study S 139 No 8 in C minor 'Wilde Jagd' (arr. Raúl Prieto) 3. Mephisto Waltz No1 S 514 'Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke' (arr. Raúl Prieto) Admission free, retiring collection, buffet. Details of the organ http://bloomsbury.org.uk/music/page/church_organ/

The recently refurbished organ of Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church in London, by B.C. Shepherd & Sons now has a very effective 32 ft Sackbut, and is the only Baptist Church in the British Isles with a 32ft reed. Come and hear it at the recital on Saturday 27th June at 4pm.

Thanks Simon. Please count me in. John W