Lunch Time Concerts 2012

French Theme for Spring 2012

Marking the 150th Anniversary of Debussy's Birth

Saturday, 21st April at 1.00 pm

At Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Wanstead, London E11 2PR

ORGAN RECITAL & MASTERCLASS

by Margaret Phillips

Regarded as one of Britain's most outstanding concert organists and teachers, Margaret Phillips studied with the late Ralph Downes and with Marie-Claire Alain. Since 1996 she has been Professor of Organ at the Royal College of Music in London, and she is also much in demand throughout the UK and abroad as recitalist, teacher, masterclass tutor and international jury member. Her CDs, which include the complete organ works of Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns and Stanley, have been highly praised; March 2012 sees the release of the final volume of her project to record the complete organ works of Bach. In 1994, Margaret Phillips and her husband founded the English Organ School and Museum in former chapel premises in Milborne Port, Somerset, where they have a small collection of organs by English organ builders from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Master Class 1-4 pm (Booking Needed)

Recital 7:30 pm

J.S. Bach (1685–1750)

Prelude & Fugue in C BWV 531

Trio Sonata no.2 in C minor BWV 526

Vivace – Largo –Allegro

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621)

Christe qui lux est et dies

Balletto del granduca

John Stanley (1712–1786)

Voluntary in D minor/major Op. 6 no. 5

Adagio – Andante Largo

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)

Sonata in D major Op. 65 no.5

Andante – Andante con moto – Allegro maestoso

Percy Whitlock (1903–1946)

Folk Tune (Five Short Pieces)

St Denio (Six Hymn-Tune Preludes)

Jean Français (1912–1997)

Suite Carmelite

Soeur Blanche – Mère Marie de l'Incarnation – Soeur Anne de la Croix –

Soeur Constantine – Soeur Mathilde – Mère Marie de Saint-Augustin

André Fleury (1903–1995)

Postlude

Admission Free .. Retiring Collection

General Inquiries - Wanstead Parish Office - 020 8989 2074

Sample Recording of Vespers at the Cathedral

SINGALONG MESSIAH 2011

Saturday, 10 December

See the Photographs

New Piano .. A Generous Gift for the Song School