Your events at Classical Events
Organ Recital
Festival Director gives a lunchtime recital on Boxgrove Priory's Hill organ
Part of the 2021 Boxgrove Choral Festival
Add to my Calendar 03-09-2021 13:00 03-09-2021 15:00 36 Organ Recital In what has become a regular fixture, Joseph Wicks returns to the organ bench to give an uplifting recital on Boxgrove Priory's extremely beautiful 2-manual Hill organ. Featuring music from the renaissance, baroque and 20th century periods of composition from Germany, France and England, a real variety of music is on offer, and hopefully will demonstrate just what can be done with a small, but perfectly formed instrument. Joseph Wicks is is a prize-winning organist, conductor and tenor. His principle work as a singer is with vocal ensemble The Gesualdo Six, of which he is the founding first tenor. He was Assistant Director of Music at Truro Cathedral for two years, where he accompanied the cathedral choir in Duruflé's Requiem live on BBC Radio 3, alongside assisting in the training of the choristers and mentoring of choral and organ scholars. Boxgrove Priory, Chichester DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Boxgrove Priory
Church Lane
Boxgrove
Chichester
West Sussex
PO18 0ED
England
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Fuga sopra il Magnificat, BWV 733
Orlando Gibbons – Fantazia of foure parts
Marcel Dupré – Prelude and Fugue in F minor, Op.7 no.2
Paul Hindemith – Organ Sonata no.2
Percy Whitlock – Five Short Pieces
Performers
Joseph Wicks – organ
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
In what has become a regular fixture, Joseph Wicks returns to the organ bench to give an uplifting recital on Boxgrove Priory's extremely beautiful 2-manual Hill organ.
Featuring music from the renaissance, baroque and 20th century periods of composition from Germany, France and England, a real variety of music is on offer, and hopefully will demonstrate just what can be done with a small, but perfectly formed instrument.
Joseph Wicks is is a prize-winning organist, conductor and tenor. His principle work as a singer is with vocal ensemble The Gesualdo Six, of which he is the founding first tenor. He was Assistant Director of Music at Truro Cathedral for two years, where he accompanied the cathedral choir in Duruflé's Requiem live on BBC Radio 3, alongside assisting in the training of the choristers and mentoring of choral and organ scholars.
