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Marc D’Anjou Principal organist at the Quebec City Cathedral Basilica

Programme details:

Messe pour les couvents: Gloria (Extracts) – François Couperin (1668-1733) – 1st verse – Plein-Jeu – 2nd verse – Petitte fugue sur le Chromorne – 3rd verse – Duo sur les tierces – 4th verse – Basse de Trompett

3 Chorale Preludes Dietrich Buxtehude (1637(?)-1707) – Der tag, der ist so freudenreich (O Hail, This Brightest Day of Days) BuxWV 182 – Durch Adams fall ist ganz verderbt (In Adam’s Fall Is All Depraved) BuxWV 183 – Ein feste burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress Is Our God) BuxWV 184

Prelude and Fugue in D major BuxWV 139 – Dietrich Buxtehude

Chorale Prelude  ‘Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele’ (Adorn Yourself, O Dear Soul) BWV 654 – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Prelude and Fugue in  D major BWV 532 – Johann Sebastian Bach

Prélude, fugue et variation opus 18 – César Franck (1822-1890)

Le Banquet céleste (1928) – Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

Quatre pièces en forme de messe (1992) – D. Bédard (b. 1950)

2nd Symphony for Organ Op. 13 No.2 – Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) – Final

 

Holy Rosary Cathedral presents:

ORGANIST VALERIE HALL,
PAST PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN COLLEGE OF ORGANISTS,
ORGANIST AND MUSIC DIRECTOR AT HOLY ROSARY CATHEDRAL, REGINA, SK

IN CONCERT

Friday March 15, 8 pm
Holy Rosary Cathedral, Dunsmuir & Richards, Vancouver, BC

Tickets: $20 / Students and Seniors $15
Available at the door, at the Cathedral Office (646 Richards) and by phone 604 682 6774

Holy Rosary Cathedral presents organist Valerie Hall in a programme including J. S. Bach, French Baroque composer Louis Marchand, British composers Francis Jackson and Herbert Sumsion, Anglo-Canadian composer Healey Willan, and BC composers Nicholas Fairbank (Victoria) and Denis Bedard (Vancouver). The recital will be projected on a giant screen at the front of the cathedral.

An inveterate performer, Valerie Hall has appeared as organist, harpsichordist, singer and choral conductor in Canada, the United States and Europe. A native of Winnipeg, she obtained a Bachelor of Music degree in Performance from the University of Manitoba and a Master of Church Music degree from Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois. An active recitalist, Valerie has been invited on three separate occasions to perform on the famous Carthy Organ in Calgary’s Jack Singer Concert Hall. She has been a frequent recipient of Saskatchewan Arts Board grants for professional development and was awarded the Lilian Forsyth scholarship for advanced study in 2005.
Valerie has been Director of Music at Holy Rosary Cathedral in Regina since 2007 and Organist since 2002. She presides over one of Canada’s finest pipe organs and supervises an ongoing, three-year scholarship program in liturgical training for young organists. A respected pedagogue, she has taught organ at the university level and her private students have gone on to further study at some of Canada’s finest universities.
A past national president of the Royal Canadian College of Organists (RCCO), Valerie was for several years National Chair for Membership and Regional Director for the Prairies. She is frequently invited to perform at national conventions of the RCCO and will this year be a juror for the RCCO National Organ Playing Competition as well as a presenter at the convention in Ottawa.
Valerie has been an enthusiastic advocate for Canadian composers: consistently featuring their works on her recital programmes and demonstrating the breadth and variety of talent we are proud to call our own.

PROGRAMME:
Louis Marchand: Plein jeu, Basse de trompette, Tierce en taille, Dialogue from Livre d’orgue
J. S. Bach: Leipzing Chorale Preludes: Von Gott will ich nicht lassen (BWV 658), Trio super “Herr
Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend” (BWV 655), Schmücke dich, O liebe Seele (BWV 654)
Denis Bedard: Suite du premier ton
Francis Jackson: Three Pieces (Procession, Arabesque, Pageant), Op. 17
Nicholas Fairbank: Variations on “Kingsfold”
Herbert Sumsion: Pastoral
Healey Willan: Prelude and Fugue in C minor

Organist John Mitchell plays an exciting and entertaining programme on the magificent 1964 four-manual Casavant organ – recently modernized and enlarged. There will be some informal spoken introductions to the music.
The recital begins with three Baroque B’s:- the virtuosic Prelude and Fugue in C major by Bach’s teacher Georg Böhm, followed by two of Buxtehude’s most popular pieces – the Passacaglia in D minor and the ‘Jig’ fugue in C major. J.S. Bach is represented by his longest organ work – the twenty minute set of variations on the chorale ‘Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig’.This is considered the finest set of organ variations ever written.
From the romantic period Edward Elgar’s charming ‘Vesper Voluntaries’ will be followed by the lushly ‘orchestral’ slow movement from Widor’s last organ symphony – the ‘Romane’ It is based on the Easter hymn ‘Haec Dies’.
The recital will conclude with a novelty – to honour the recent discovery of the remains of King Richard III in Leicester, England (under a carpark!) Sir Lawrence Olivier’s 1955 film ‘Richard III’ had a magnificent score by Sir William Walton, and a suite of four pieces will be played. In the film the first three are actually played on an organ. The concluding march has a melody as glorious as anything by Elgar.

The concert is at 3:00 PM Sunday April 21 at Ryerson Church – corner of 45th Ave and Yew St.
Admission at the door only – Adults $15 – Students $10

Progamme details:

• Prelude & Fugue in C major G. Böhm
• Passacaglia in D minor D. Buxtehude
• Fugue in C major (Jig) D. Buxtehude
• Partita ‘Sei gegrüsset Jesu gütig’  J.S. Bach
• Vesper Voluntaries E. Elgar
• Choral (Haec dies) from Symphonie Romane C.M. Widor
• Toccata in D major M. Lanquetuit

Holy Rosary Cathedral presents:
CATHEDRAL ORGANIST DENIS BEDARD IN CONCERT
Friday April 26, 8 pm
Holy Rosary Cathedral, Dunsmuir & Richards, Vancouver, BC
Tickets: $20 / Students and Seniors $15
Available at the door, at the Cathedral Office (646 Richards) and by phone 604 682 6774

Hidden gems from the Renaissance and Baroque eras including rarely played works by Bach, the premiere of a new composition by Denis Bedard, and works by 20th century French composers, performed by the Cathedral’s own organist. The recital will be projected on a giant screen at the front of the church, allowing the audience to watch the performance.
Denis Bedard graduated from the Quebec Conservatory of Music with first class honours, continued his studies in Montreal, Paris and Amsterdam, and was laureate of the “Prix d’Europe” in 1975 and of the CBC Radio Talent Competition in 1978. A very active concert artist, he has given recitals across Canada, in the United States, in France and in Brazil. He also pursues an international career as a composer. He has written over a hundred compositions and his music has been performed and recorded throughout the world. He has received commissions from Radio-Canada, the CBC, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, Monaco Cathedral, and various professional musicians in Canada, England, France, Switzerland and the U.S. Since September 2001 he has been organist and music director at Holy Rosary Cathedral in Vancouver.

Programme:
Charles Piroye: La Beatitude (Dialogue à deux choeurs, 1711)
Francisco Peraza: Medio Registro Alto de Primer Tono
Andrea Gabrieli.: Canzona in F
Girolamo Frescobaldi: Toccata per l’Elevatione
Antonio Valente: La Romanesca
John Stanley: Voluntary VI in F
Diderik Buxtehude: Chorale Prelude “Von Gott will ich nicht lassen”, BuxWV 220
Arnold Matthias Brunckhorst: Praeludium in E minor
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale Prelude “Herr Jesu Christ zu uns wend’”, BWV 709
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue in G major, BWV 586
Denis Bédard: Suite in A major (premiere)
Jean Langlais: Tiento (Suite medievale), Canzona (Folkoric Suite)
Gaston Litaize: Prelude liturgique no. 20, Toccata sur le Veni Creator

The annual RCCO Members’ Recital will take place at Kerrisdale Presbyterian Church (2733 W 41st Ave, Vancouver, at Yew, lots of free parking behind the church) on Saturday, May 25 at 7 pm.

Performers will include Sam Balden, Michael Dirk, Frank Ezinga, Cindy Leung, Huiyan Ma, Michael Molnar, Susan and Paul Ohannesian, and David Poon.

Entry by donation.

Repertoire and other details will be announced very soon.

The Pacific Baroque Orchestra presents:
Handel Organ Concerti

Saturday, June 1, 2013 at 7:30pm
West Vancouver United Church
2062 Esquimalt Ave, West Vancouver

Our 2012-2013 season finale is a stunning potpourri of concerti for organ, oboes and violin. The first works of their kind, Handel’s organ concerti greatly influenced later writing for the instrument. PBO Artistic Director Alexander Weimann’s treatment of these revolutionary compositions will be extraordinary.There’s one performance only – we hope you’ll join us!

West Vancouver United Church’s custom-designed and -built organ by Washington maker Martin Pasi weighs approximately eight tons. Although the case and tonal design of the organ are reminiscent of historical Dutch and North German instruments, the aim was to create a modern instrument capable of playing a wide range of musical repertoire, and performing a wide variety of accompaniment and solo functions.

PBO Artistic Director Alexander Weimann is one of the most sought-after ensemble directors, soloists, and chamber music partners of his generation. He has traveled the world as a member of the ensemble Tragicomedia; as a frequent guest of ensembles such as Les Boréades, Cantus Cölln, Freiburger Barockorchester, Tafelmusik, and the Gesualdo Consort; and as musical director of Les Voix Baroques and Le Nouvel Opéra. Weimann was born in 1965 in Munich, where he studied the organ, church music, musicology, theatre, medieval Latin, and jazz piano. After some years in Berlin, he now spends as much time as possible with his family — which so far includes three children as well as several pets — in his adopted home, Montreal, and is active in both his kitchen and his garden.

Repertoire:

G.F. Handel: Concerto in g (Op. 4 no. 3)

C.P.E Bach: Organ concerto in Eb (H 446/W 35)

W.A. Mozart: Church sonata (KV 336)

J.C. Bach: Concerto III from op. 13 (C 64)

J.S. Bach: Sinfonia to cantata 35 (Part II)

Antonio Vivaldi: Sonata for violin, oboe, & organ (RV 779)

Handel: Concerto in Bb (Op. 7 no. 1)

See the Pasi Organ Builders in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV1OWe3_Kes

Find out more about Martin Pasi’s organs: http://www.pasiorgans.com/

The return of our Annual Halloween Member’s Recital draws near!
Costumes, spooky organ music, bad jokes, wacky decorations, and fun seasonal facts approach rapidly!

This year it will be on Saturday evening, October the 26th
at St. Andrew’s-Wesley downtown (Burrard and Nelson), so mark the date!

Susan Ohannesian presents 7 centuries of organ music from 7 countries including a new work by Paul Ohannesian.

Music by Gabrieli, Tomkins, Couperin, Bach, Lidon, Mendelssohn, Franck, Stanford, Hovhaness, Bédard, Ohannesian

This recital will follow the 10:30 am Remembrance Day service.  You are welcome to attend either the service or the recital or both.  There will be a light lunch to follow the recital in the parish hall.

Programme:

Paean (1967) – Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)

Prelude and fugue in G (BWV 550) – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Three Preludes on sacred melodies:
Vater unser im Himmelreich – Georg Böhm (1661-1733)
Go Do Mo (2003) – Jürgen Rehberg
Komm, o komm, du Geist des Lebens (2006) – Gunther Martin Göttsche

Fantasia in f minor (K608) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Pièce Héröique (no.3 of ‘Trois Pieces pour Grand Orgue’) – César Franck (1822-1890)

Two pieces by Olivier Messaien (1908-1992):
Le Banquet Celeste, Joie et clarté des corps glorieux (no.6 from ‘Les Corps Glorieux’)

Meditation on “Once in Royal David’s City” (2004) – Jan Janca

Winter Night (“Sleigh Ride”) – Frederick Delius/ arr. Robert Hebble (1862-1934)

Trumpeting Organ Morgan (2002) – Karl Jenkins