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THE FINAL
Wednesdays at Christ Church Organ Concert

Wednesday 18th November 2020
12.30 lunchtime

Farewell to the Organ - recorded 'as live'

A concert in support of Christian Aid

Guest organist:

Mark Brafield, FTCL, FRCO,
Trustee of Royal College of Organists, and District Judge

Programme


Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
from the Orgelbüchlein    Little Organ Book  (1709-1717)
Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland BWV 599
    Come, Saviour of nations wild

Fantasia & Fugue in C minor BWV 537


Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
from Vingt-quatre pièces en style libre (1913-1914)
No 15 Arabesque

Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
Incanatation pour un jour saint    Incantation for Easter

Recorded Live at Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, KT22 8ST

Technical problems have left this programme shorter than planned, for which we apologise.

Your concert is ready on youtube - please click this link

At the end of this concert we planned to collect for Christian Aid whose door-to-door collections could not take place earlier this year. Details of giving are on shown below.

Mark Brafield

click to donate • please mention Christ Church Leatherhead

youtube link

Sadly this is the final Wednesdays at Christ Church at Christ Church, Leatherhead. After a great deal of soul-searching, and with much sadness, the Elders and Congregation of the Church have decided it is time to close definitively.

COVID has got in the way of such concepts of a final service or a final organ concert, indeed we had planned a year of celebration of the instrument, with organist friends coming to present concerts each month. It just was not possible to do that in safety, and legally.

We hope there will be new life for the organ over which Director of Music Anthony Cairns has had considerable influence for the last 40 plus years. When there is firm news we will be putting that into our regular newsletters

Until then, please enjoy Mark Brafield's pre-recorded concert, and then please make a donation to Christian Aid mentioning Christ Church Leatherhead as you do so. Here is the link you will need.


Mark Brafield's concert is ready on youtube - please click this link

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Recordings of the

Hill Norman & Beard Organ

Christ Church (United Reformed)

Leatherhead (1970-2020)

Mark Brafield plays a final short recital (details above)

Sam Austin demonstrates the organ

Sam Austin plays extracts from:

Widor: 'Toccata' from Symphony no. 5
Mendelssohn: 'Adagio' from Sonata no. 1
J S Bach: 'Toccata' and 'Adagio' from BWV 564
Franck: Fantaisie in A
Whitlock: 'Canzona' from the Organ Sonata

Sam Austin plays Bach

J S Bach: Toccata and Fugue in d minor BWV 565

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