Continuing our series of Organ Recitals in aid of the Organ Project. Please do join us for a glass of wine and listen to the fantastic Walker organ in St Mary’s Church, Portsea.
Donations in aid of The Organ Project (www.theorganproject.org) – c/o St Mary’s Church Music Foundation (registered Charity no. 1020088)
Programme
- Praeludium, Fuga, and Ciacona in C BuxWV 137, Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
- Vater unser im Himmelreich (I), Georg Böhm (1661-1733)
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele BWV 654, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - Master Tallis’s Testament, No.3 from Six Pieces for Organ, Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
- Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele Op. 122 No. 5, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
- Variations sur ‘Amazing Grace’, Denis Bédard (1950-)
- Finale from Symphony No. 6 in g minor Op. 42 No. 2, Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
Organ Recital at St Mary’s
Recitalist
Oliver Hancock is Director of Music at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick. He has held the post of Assistant Organist to Ely Cathedral Girls’ Choir, and Graduate Organ Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He was Sub-Organist at Portsmouth Cathedral until the end of 2017.
He has toured much of mainland Europe and the East coast of the USA, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and 4, and played numerous recitals throughout the UK and further afield –
most recently at St Paul’s and Westminster Abbey.