Tuesday Lunchtime Organ Recital

Peter Yardley-Jones University Organ Scholar, University of Glasgow

Programme includes:
Fredrik Sixten Festival Toccata (UK Premiere)
Organ Sonata (English Premiere)
Yon Toccatina for flute
Handel La Rejouissance

The full-length programme will survey French music for organ from Pierre Attaignant (1531) to the 20th century, including the Grand Dialogue by Marchand, pieces by Dandrieu and Boëly, Alain's Premiere Fantaisie and Messiaen's Dieu parmi nous, played on the new Kuhn organ in Jesus College Chapel. Pieces by Lefébure-Wély, Franck and Vierne will be played on the instrument which evolved in France during the 1840s, the harmonium.

Currently a full time farming estate, Childerley dates back to Tudor times and its wonderful gardens and Jacobean Chapel look set to provide a picturesque and unusual backdrop for a memorable evening.

Andrew Nethsingha director
Leon Charles organ
Alison Martin harp
Cameron Sinclair percussion

Other works include: Purcell's Hear my prayer and Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei, Guerrero's O sacrum convivium, Viadana's Exultate justi, Francis Grier's Three devotions to Christ our Redeemer, and Elgar's Give unto the Lord.

For devotees of excellent choral music, no trip to Cambridge would be complete without hearing one of the University's best chapel choirs. We welcome St John's College Choir to the Festival for the first time in a programme with the favourite Bernstein's Chichester Psalms as its central choral work, as well as some of the loveliest Continental and English sacred choral masterpieces.The concert also features harp solos and a duet for percussion and organ.

Oliver Brett Organ Scholar, Westminster Cathedral

Oliver was last year's organ scholar graduate of King's College. He is now at Westminster Cathedral as organ scholar and Director of Music at the Westmister Cathedral Choir School. For this first lunchtime concert of the Festival he plays works by Bach and Vierne's 3rd Symphony.