Illustrated organ recital with Anthony Gritten: RSCM Stanford Singing Break at Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge on Friday 12th July 2024

Illustrated organ recital with Anthony Gritten

RSCM Stanford Singing Break

Add to my Calendar 12-07-2024 19:30 12-07-2024 21:30 36 Illustrated organ recital with Anthony Gritten Presented as part of the Royal School of Church Music's Stanford Singing Break to mark the centenary of Stanford's death, this illustrated recital will span Stanford’s entire compositional life, from an early work of c.1875 through to his final works of the 1920s. At the centre of the recital is one of his large-scale masterpieces for organ, the Sonata no. 4 in C minor ‘Celtica’ op. 153, written at the end of the First World War. In addition to complete performances of these five pieces, the event will discuss aspects of Stanford’s compositional language, including his use of hymn tunes, the impact of his Irish heritage, the shape of his sonata thinking, and the influence of other composers on his music. The RSCM's Stanford Singing Break also includes a lecture by Stanford expert, Jeremy Dibble. Full details can be found here https://www.rscmshop.com/features/stanford-singing-break Anthony Gritten is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, and studied with Harry Gabb, David Sanger, and Anne Page. He gave the first complete performance of Daniel Roth’s magnum opus, Livre d’Orgue pour le Magnificat, and has performed four times in St. Sulpice, Paris, including a recital for Roth’s 70th birthday. He has also premiered various works, including Richard Francis’ four-movement symphony on themes by Lefébure-Wély, Laurence Caldecote’s Variations on Victimae Paschali Laudes, and David Loxley-Blount’s Toccata ar St Denio. Projects have included anniversary performances of the complete works of Tunder, Buxtehude (a 6½ hour recital), Homilius (2½ hours), Brahms, and Mendelssohn, and an ongoing series resurrecting forgotten French music from the early 20th century. Anthony was an organ scholar and research student at Cambridge University, writing a doctorate on Stravinsky. He has worked at the University of East Anglia, the Royal Northern College of Music, and Middlesex University, and is currently Head of Undergraduate Programmes at the Royal Academy of Music. His publications include books on Music and Gesture, essays on Balakirev, Cage, Debussy, Delius, Goehr, Holloway, Roth, and Stravinsky, and numerous articles on issues in Performance Studies. Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Queens' College Chapel
Silver Street
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB3 9ET
England

Friday 12th July 2024
7:30 PM

Tickets

Prices: £10
Booking line: 01722 424848
Book Tickets

Programme

Charles Villiers Stanford – Prelude & Fugue in C major, Op.193 no.1 (1923)
Charles Villiers Stanford – Prelude and Fugue in E minor (1875)
Charles Villiers Stanford – Fantasia upon the hymn tune ‘Intercessor’, Op.187 (1922)
Charles Villiers Stanford – Fantasia (In Festo Omnium Sanctorum), Op.12 no.1 (1911)
Charles Villiers Stanford – Organ Sonata no.4, Op.153

Performers

Anthony Gritten – organ

Programme Note

Presented as part of the Royal School of Church Music's Stanford Singing Break to mark the centenary of Stanford's death, this illustrated recital will span Stanford’s entire compositional life, from an early work of c.1875 through to his final works of the 1920s. At the centre of the recital is one of his large-scale masterpieces for organ, the Sonata no. 4 in C minor ‘Celtica’ op. 153, written at the end of the First World War. In addition to complete performances of these five pieces, the event will discuss aspects of Stanford’s compositional language, including his use of hymn tunes, the impact of his Irish heritage, the shape of his sonata thinking, and the influence of other composers on his music.

The RSCM's Stanford Singing Break also includes a lecture by Stanford expert, Jeremy Dibble. Full details can be found here https://www.rscmshop.com/features/stanford-singing-break

Anthony Gritten is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, and studied with Harry Gabb, David Sanger, and Anne Page. He gave the first complete performance of Daniel Roth’s magnum opus, Livre d’Orgue pour le Magnificat, and has performed four times in St. Sulpice, Paris, including a recital for Roth’s 70th birthday. He has also premiered various works, including Richard Francis’ four-movement symphony on themes by Lefébure-Wély, Laurence Caldecote’s Variations on Victimae Paschali Laudes, and David Loxley-Blount’s Toccata ar St Denio. Projects have included anniversary performances of the complete works of Tunder, Buxtehude (a 6½ hour recital), Homilius (2½ hours), Brahms, and Mendelssohn, and an ongoing series resurrecting forgotten French music from the early 20th century.

Anthony was an organ scholar and research student at Cambridge University, writing a doctorate on Stravinsky. He has worked at the University of East Anglia, the Royal Northern College of Music, and Middlesex University, and is currently Head of Undergraduate Programmes at the Royal Academy of Music. His publications include books on Music and Gesture, essays on Balakirev, Cage, Debussy, Delius, Goehr, Holloway, Roth, and Stravinsky, and numerous articles on issues in Performance Studies.

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