This January the Lanarkshire Society of Organists are hosting a service at the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Bellshill Central Parish Church.
The Evening will feature lots of Songs of Praise, led by the mighty Hilsdon Organ of Bellshill Central Church, with it’s organist Alan Mathew as Director of Music.
The 1930 Hilsdon Organ at Bellshill Central Church
On Friday’s 17th and 24th January at 7.15pm there will be choir practices for those wishing to be part of an Ecumenical Choir to help lead our praise. If you are interested in this please contact Alan via the form below.
Two
Fugues on BACH (2 & 3) Robert
Schumann (1810-56)
Concert pour orgue, Op. 56, No. 2 Feliks Nowowiejski (1877-1946)
Barry
Jordan was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in 1957. He studied at the
University of Cape Town from 1976 to 1979
and again from 1985 – 1986, then in Vienna and in Lübeck, where he
completed his Konzertexamen in
the class of Prof. Martin Haselböck at the beginning of 1988, followed
by the “B” and “A” church music diplomas in 1992 and 1994.
Almost
immediately thereafter he was appointed as Organist and choral director of
Magdeburg Cathedral, and took up his post there in August 1994. He has a busy
schedule as recitalist in Germany and abroad, and is also active as a composer.
From 2003 until 2006 he was also lecturer in organ at the Hochschule für Musik
und Theater in Leipzig. In November 2004 he received the honorary title of Kirchenmusikdirektor.
Semester
1 organ concerts
Wednesdays
at 1.10-1.50
Except the
celebrity concert with Thomas Trotter on
Friday,
November 8 at 6pm
Friday, November 8, 6pm, Celebrity Recital
Thomas Trotter
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 J S Bach
Méditation Maurice
Duruflé
Prélude et fugue sur le nom d’Alain Maurice
Duruflé
Walking Song Kevin Volans
Sonata in G major Edward
Elgar
November 13 Kevin Bowyer
Festival of North American Organ Music, 2
Introduction, Adagio and Fugue (2009) Ralph
Fisher (1948)
Peace, Be Still (2011) Paul
Lombardi (b. 1973)
Organ Toccata
(1971) Dean
Drummond (1949-2013)
November 20 William Hutcheson (Glasgow)
Grand Chorus in March Form Alexandre
Guilmant (1837-1911)
Fantasia in G major, BWV 572 J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Communion L.J.A.
Lefébure-Wély (1817-1869)
Rondo in G Andre
Kneval (b. 1950)
Pastorale (Psalm 23:1) Percy W. Whitlock (1903-1946)
In Party Mood Jack
Strachey (1894-1972)
Postlude alla Marcia Ernest Halsey (1876-1939)
November 27 Samuel Prouse (Glasgow)
Overture to St Paul Mendelssohn
arr. Best
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 J S Bach
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 J S Bach
Les Enfants de Dieu ‘La Nativité du Seigneur’ Olivier Messiaen
Choral 3 in A minor Cesar
Franck
Glasgow University Memorial Chapel
Celebrity Organ Recital
Thomas Trotter
Music by J S Bach, Maurice Duruflé, Kevin Volans and
Sir Edward Elgar
“Thomas Trotter is rightly regarded as one of the
most brilliant concert organists currently on the world stage. …. A
virtuoso’s virtuoso, he harnesses his immaculate technique and musicianship to
serve every aspect of the music.”
The American Organist
Friday November 8th at 6pm Admission Free
Funding by the Ferguson Bequest.
Professor Thomas Ferguson (1900-1977), Henry Mechan Chair of Public
Health
(1944-64), bequeathed his estate to the University, with the
instruction that the money should be used to foster the social side of
University life.
For future concerts, see organrecitals.com
If you would like to be included in advance email publicity
for our organ concert series please drop me a line and let me know:
We had a wonderful day on 12th October 2019 visiting St Mary’s Church Abercrombey Street and Dennistoun New Parish Church in the East End of Glasgow.
St Mary’s has an excellent Hill Norman Beard two manual organ high up in the gallery, overlooking the magnificent Church. Dennistoun New Parish Church has a Willis 3manual instrument which sounds superb in the acoustics and setting of the church.
Our grateful thanks to both churches for allowing us access to these fine instruments in beautiful buildings.
