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Music on Thursdays - Online

Thursday 27th May 2021


Available: from Thursday 27th May

Guest host: David Gibbs
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Programme

PART ONE

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Toccata in C major from BWV 564 (before c1712)    (7m00)


Dieterich Buxtehude (c1637/39-1707)
Praeambulum super D    Preambule on D  (4m00)


Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772)
Noel VI sur les jeux d'anches, sans tremblant, et en duo «Qu'Adam fut un pauvre homme» (5m40)
Noel VI on the reed stops, without tremulant, and in duo "that Adam was a humble man"


John Stanley (1712-1786)
from Voluntary in D minor I, Op 5 No 8 (pub 1745)
    Adagio    (1m45)


Johann Caspar Kerll (1627-1693)
Capriccio sopra il cucu    Cuckoo Capriccio (1934)    (4m05)


Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)        (4m00)
Bagatelle No 25 in A minor  Für Elise WoW 59 Bia 515 (1810)


PART TWO

Jean (Johan Julius Christian) Sibelius (1865-1957)
Finlandia Op 26 (1899)     (4m00)


Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897)
from Suite Gothique (1895)     (4m55)
    IV Toccata


Edward William Elgar (1857-1934)
arr for organ by Jonathan Scott (b1978)
from Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma)  Op36 (1899)     (5m00)
    IX  Nimrod    Adagio


Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844-1937)
from Symphony for Organ No 5 in F minor, Op 42, No 1 (1879)     (2m10)
V Toccata (F major)


Concert duration: 46 minutes

Guest host: David Gibbs

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The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, in Philadelphia, is is located within a spacious 7-story Grand Court, at Macy’s Center City.

The instrument is played twice a day Monday to Saturday.  It is one of the largest playable organs in the world, containing 28,750 pipes.

Grand Court Organist Peter Richard Conte (oh, yes, it has its own Chief Organist), plays Finlandia, Op 26, written in 1899, a tone poem by the Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius. Conte has held the post since 1989, and is only the fourth organist since 1911.

Jean (Johan Julius Christian) Sibelius (1865-1957)
Finlandia Op 26 (1899)     (4m00)


performed by Chief Organist Peter Richard Conte, at the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, in Macy's Center City Department Store (formerly Wanamaker's), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Wanamaker Organ, Macy's, Philadelphia
Console - for an organist or a pilot ?
Wanamaker Organ, Macy's, Philadelphia
An Organ - in a department store
Wanamaker Organ, Macy's, Philadelphia
fitting an organ into a department store

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“To improve the standard of music in our city”, was the hope of Sir Henry Brett when he donated Auckland’s original town hall organ in 1911.  

By the early 21st century the organ was in need of urgent restoration and so the German firm, Orgelbau Klais of Bonn, was appointed.  With so little of the original to work with, Klais opted to build a new organ incorporating what was salvageable from the 1911 instrument. It would be a third larger than the original and designed as an international instrument of the 21st century.

Uniquely it would have two stops based on Māori instruments – the kōauau (flute) and pūkāea (horn). All through, the spirit of the 1911 instrument would be captured using similar pipe scales and wind pressures to ensure the Town Hall was filled with sound.

Here is the largest and most powerful organ in New Zealand:
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Auckland Town Hall

Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897)
from Suite Gothique (1895)     (4m55)
IV Toccata

performed by Jonathan Mayer on the Klais organ in Auckland Town Hall, New Zealand
Jonathan Mayer is a former Student Organist from St Paul’s Collegiate School, Hamilton, who then gained the Edmund Hillary Programme Scholarship at the University of Waikato.

Having played piano from a young age, when given the opportunity to learn the organ at school he made the most of it. He finished his last year performing Suite Gothique on the Auckland Town Hall organ for his NCEA Level 3 Music performance.

A member of, as well as conducting, multiple music groups and the choir, he is looking to continue his development by taking on the role of an Organ Scholar at St Peter's Cathedral.

Jonathan's most recent achievements include being a recipient of a 2016 University of Waikato "Emerging Talent" Blues Award and passing his Trinity Grade 8 Organ exam with Merit.

Despite this focus on music his main goal is to continue his studies in Mechanical Engineering alongside his Certificate in Musical Performance (Organ) at Waikato.

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The National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, is the world’s largest performing arts centre under one roof. 

The Concert Hall’s unique design allows the audience at various heights to enjoy the same optimal acoustic and visual effects. 

This pipe organ was also manufactured by Johannes Klais Orgelbau and consists of 9,085 pipes, making it the largest pipe organ in Taiwan. The exterior design is consistent with the style of the interior, and the asymmetrical arrangement of the symphonic organ and echo organ creates unprecedented sensational impact for the audience.

We need a piece of music that will exploit these characteristics of the organ. Here is Elgar's Nimrod

Edward William Elgar (1857-1934)
arr for organ by Jonathan Scott (b1978)
from Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma)  Op36 (1899)     (5m00)
IX  Nimrod    Adagio

performed by Jonathan Scott on the Klais organ in National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
National Kaohsiung Center, organ,
National Kaohsiung Center Organ, with symphonic organ on the left, and echo organ on the right (click to enlarge)
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First unveiled in 1834, this organ in Birmingham Town Hall boasts enormous 32-foot pipes that were, for the first time in England, incorporated into the decorative case front.

Paid for from public funds, it was the largest organ in England at the time. Even today, with its 6000 pipes, it is still comparable with the most powerful of cathedral organs around the world. It’s been constantly used in weekly recitals given by a string of City Organists.

Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844-1937)
from Symphony for Organ No 5 in F minor, Op 42, No 1 (1879)     (2m10)
V Toccata (F major)

performed by Thomas Trotter, Birmingham City Organist & International Concert Recitalist,
on the 1834 William Hill & Sons organ in Birmingham Town Hall, England

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We hope you have enjoyed David Gibbs' Organ Selection for Music on Thursdays
Next Thursday

 June 3rd

brings probably the last of our series of concerts

recorded 'as live' for Music on Thursdays, with

Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade, accordion


We will continue with weekly video selection concerts
until the end of June
with hopes of going live at
Leatherhead Methodist Church
from July 1st

comments welcome:

[email protected]
▼ last week's selection ▼
Stravinsky & Disney - a match made in heaven ?

▼ next week's accordion concert ▼
recorded 'as live' for Music on Thursdays

Return to PART ONE for:
• Walt Disney Concert Hall organ, Los Angeles

• a pre-1500 organ in Westfalia

• stalacpipe organ in a cavern

• the Bamboo Organ

• the largest Baroque church North of the Alps

• a monastery organ in Toulouse
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These eight concert recordings for Leatherhead
remain online

click on the buttons below to Listen (and watch) Again

and please tell your friends about them too !

Buck Brass
trumpet • horns • trombone
Gabrieli  •  Brahms
Thomas Adams   •  Steven Verhelst
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Glazunov  •  Mozart

Ibrahim Aziz
treble, bass & Renaissance viols
Diego Ortiz ♦ Rebecca Rowe ♦ Tobias Hume
Bach ♦ Le Sieur de Machy ♦ Telemann
Le Sieur de Sainte-Colombe ♦ Carlos Martínez Gil

Thomas Ang
piano
Bülow ♦ Liszt ♦ Amy Beach
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Phil Hopkins
chromatic harmonica
Stuart Whatton
piano

Carmenco

flute, voice &
2 guitars

organist

Marion Bettsworth

Diphonon
viola &
accordion
Duo

Jazz on Thursday
with pianist
Eddie Lee
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Concert Selections Still Available

for your listening on this Website:

Please click on a title to go to the concert webpage
• Marina Kan's 2020 AGM Piano Concert

• Concert for St George's Day and Shakespeare's Birthday

• Music on May Day

• Music for VE Day 75th Anniversary

• Piano à Deux - Linda Ang Stoodley & Robert Stoodley, 4 hands on 1 piano

• Clocks & Cathedrals (musical clocks, that is)

• Guitars & Friends - a guitar medley

• Beethoven & Haydn String Quartets

• Cello Tango - from solos to multi cellists

• Organs of Paris  ♥ Les Orgues de Paris

• Flute Fest

• Virtual Viola, hosted by Lynda Chang

• Multi Piano - pianos from two to 12 at a time

• From Sackbutt to Trombone

• Harp Haven - our President's 100th Birthday Concert

• Oboe Omnibus

• Gentle Guitar

• Music for Unusual Instruments

• Viola da Gamba, hosted by Ibrahim Aziz

• Music & the Military

• Choral Music

• Clarinet Compilation, hosted by Lynda Chang

• The Voice, hosted by Lynda Chang

• Beethoven 250, hosted by Peter Horsfield

• Eddie Lee's Jazz on Thursday - recorded as live for MoT & Arts e-Live

• Diphonon viola & accordion Duo - recorded as live for MoT & Arts e-Live

• Marion Bettsworth & organ of St Michael's Highgate - recorded as live for Arts e-Live

• CarmenCo - Carmen's Story in flute, voice & guitars - recorded as live for Arts e-Live

• Phil Hopkins, harmonica, Stuart Whatton, piano,
            From JS Bach to film music composer John Barry - recorded as live for MoT & Arts e-Live

• Musical Fireworks - a musical selection

• Music of the Musicals up to 1960 - a musical selection

• Thomas Ang's 2021 AGM Piano Concert - recorded as Live for Music on Thursdays

• Vivaldi 343rd Birthday Selection - hosted by Peter Steadman

• Saint-Saëns Centenary Selection - hosted by Peter Horsfield

• Music for the Lute - hosted by Lynda Chang

• Musicals 1960 to 1990 - hosted by Peter Steadman

• Ibrahim Aziz plays Renaissance viol, treble viol, bass viol - recorded 'as live'

• Music for Royal Weddings Selection - hosted by Peter Steadman

• Albinoni 350 Selection - hosted by Peter Steadman
 
• Yehudi Menuhin 105th Anniversary - hosted by Lynda Chang

• Sexual Intrigue in Opera - hosted by Liz Barnes

• Buck Brass  Trio/Quartet - trumpet, horns, trombone - recorded 'as live'

• String Quartet Movements - hosted by Lynda Chang

• Stravinsky & Disney - a match made in heaven ? - hosted by Lynda Chang
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Visit the making music channel on youtube

You will find lots of music videos recorded during lockdown

click on the logo
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