Events

Our lunchtime concerts take place on the first Friday of the month, from 12.30 to 1.15pm. They are kindly sponsored by Ballet4Life and promoted on organrecitals.ukand in The New London Organ Concerts Guide. Admission is free with a retiring collection (please add Gift Aid where possible) for the church’s music fund. All welcome.

This month’s organist will be Richard Leach, Ealing Abbey.

Richard Leach is the Organist of Ealing Abbey Choir and has given organ recitals at The Queen’s, Pembroke and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford and at Canterbury Cathedral. He plays regularly for the English Baroque Choir and The Music Makers Choir of Harpenden; he has worked with The Brandenburg Sinfonia, Musica Donum Dei and Endelienta Baroque as a continuo player. As an ensemble pianist he has performed at the Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, St James’s Piccadilly, St Bride’s Fleet Street, and on BBC Radio 3, and he has worked as a répétiteur for The Grange Festival, The Monteverdi Choir, the Philharmonia Chorus and The English Concert.

Richard has taught at Trinity Laban Conservatoire and at the Royal Academy of Music, where he is also a staff accompanist; he is a faculty accompanist for the SienAgosto Summer Academy in Siena, Italy. He was for some time Assistant Director of Music at Worksop College, and continues to teach the organ and piano at St Benedict’s School, Ealing, and the piano at Rugby School. Richard has held organ scholarships at Pembroke College, Oxford and Canterbury Cathedral, and also studied at Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music.

Programme

Fantasia in C
William Byrd (1543-1623)

Variations on Mein junges Leben hat ein End SwWV 324
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)

Hymn Prelude on Song 13
Percy Whitlock (1903-1946) after Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

Canzon Quarta in quarto tono naturale
Giovanni Battista Fasolo (1598-1664)

Le jardin suspendu, JA 71
Jehan Alain (1911-1940)

Prelude and Fugue in E flat, BWV 552
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)