Westminster Abbey at Saanen Church – James O'Donnell
Chamber music
Wednesday 28 July 2021
7.30 pm, Saanen Church
For twenty years James O'Donnell has been Organist and Master of the Choristers – in other words, Director of Music – at Westminster Abbey, one of England's most prestigious churches. Two years after the tenured organist of Notre-Dame de Paris, Olivier Latry, he is in turn invited to the organ of the church of Saint-Maurice in Saanen to perform the most beautiful works of his repertoire, naturally in keeping with the theme of the summer. Thus, we shall be treated to organ works by the great English masters, from Purcell to Vaughan Williams. Might a “tradition” be in the making?
James O'Donnell, Organ (Westminster Abbey London) on the organ of the Mauritiuskirche Saanen
| Peter Prelleur (ca. 1705-41) | |
| Voluntary III (in A Minor) | |
| William Byrd (ca. 1543-1623) | |
| “Ut re mi fa sol la” | |
| Herbert Howells (1892-1983) | |
| “Master Tallis's Testament” | |
| Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) | |
| “A Fancy in Gamut Flatt” | |
| James MacMillan (1959) | |
| “Gaudeamus in loci pace” | |
| Henry Purcell (1659-95) | |
| Voluntary for a Double Organ Z. 719 | |
| Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) | |
| Fantasy and Toccata in D Minor, Op. 57 | |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) | |
| Prelude on the Welsh Hymn Tune “Rhosymedre” | |
| Three pieces from the “Orgelbüchlein Project”: | |
| William Whitehead (1970) | |
| “Frisch auf, mein Seel, verzage nicht” | |
| Nigel Allcoat (1950) | |
| “In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr” | |
| Simon Johnson (1975) | |
| “Wohl dem, der in Gottes Furcht steht” | |
| Patrick Gowers (1936-2014) | |
| Toccata | |
| 80' | |
| CHF 125/105/65/40 |
