Our 2019 monthly Organ Recital series continues with a recital by Canon Peter Gould. Please do join us for a glass of wine and listen to the fantastic Walker organ in St Mary’s Church, Portsea. The recitalist in the organ loft is relayed instantaneously to a large screen which makes for gripping viewing!
Organ Recitalist on the Big Screen
The programme:
Toccata and Fugue in F major, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) BWV 540
Sonata No.2 in C minor, Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Op.65
Suite in D major, Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Op.105
Postlude in F major, Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Paean, Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
Andante (from Symphonie No.1), Louis Vierne (1870-1937) Op.14
Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H, Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Peter was Master of the Music in Derby Cathedral for 32 years retiring in 2015. He had a career of 40 years of working in English Cathedrals.
Peter now lives just north of Portsmouth and finds that he is doing more organ playing in services and recitals than he ever did in Derby! This year he has been travelling around the whole of the Portsmouth Diocese playing each organ; the final recital to be held at Portsmouth Cathedral on 28th November at 1.10 p.m, when he will play the whole of Vierne’s Symphonie No.1, which he has been learning throughout this year.
Free entry with donations in aid of The Organ Project (www.theorganproject.org) – c/o St Mary’s Church Music Foundation (registered Charity no. 1020088)