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SACRED HEART CHURCH
EDGE HILL, WIMBLEDON
Centenary of the Walker Organ
1912 - 2012
SATURDAY 21st JANUARY
7.45pm
ORGAN RECITAL by
DAVID GAMMIE
The Sacred Heart’s own organist launches the centenary celebrations, with a colourful programme of inspirational and descriptive music.
Watch David playing on the big video screen!
You are welcome to drop in for half an hour,
or stay for the whole concert…
Free admission, Retiring collection
Recital Programme, Saturday 21st January 2012
Part 1 (7.45 – 8.30)
“Thou its Joy, its Light, its Crown,
Thou its Sun that goes not down…”
Carl Rütti The Mountain of the Transfiguration (Lumen Christi)
J S Bach Jesu meine Freude, BWV 610
In dir ist Freude, BWV 615
Balbastre Two Noëls from Burgundy
Au jô deu de pubelle; Grand déi, ribon ribeine
Dubois March of the Three Kings
Dupré The world awaiting the Saviour
Delius, arr Fenby On hearing the first cuckoo in spring (1912)
Carl Rütti Lerche (The Lark)
Interval (drinks available in the Parish Lounge)
Part 2 (c 8.55 – 9.30)
Liszt Introduction & Fugue from Bach’s Cantata no.21
Prelude to ‘The Legend of St Elizabeth’
Mendelssohn Scherzo from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
(arr. R. Goss-Custard)
Peter Lawson Song of the Broad Helleborine
Mulet Rosace (Esquisses Byzantines)
Naji Hakim Final from ‘Hommage à Igor Stravinski’
David Gammie recital 21 January
Absolutely fabulous! Wonderful playing as ever, fascinating programme which really showed off the organ and the usual brilliant elegantly-written notes. And the organ soundedf splendid. I well remember the irate comments made by the organ tuner around 1966: "Organ long overdue for complete restoration!" And it has been done at last. This instrument is a national treasure, and should surely be raised to Grade 1 in the BIOS national register. Well done everybody: a triumph!
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