11:30 Celebrity Organ Recital: Andrew Lucas

Bank Holiday Celebrity Organ Recital

11:30, Monday 5th May: Andrew Lucas, Master of Music, St Alban's Cathedral

Andrew Lucas has been Master of the Music of St Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire since 1998 after working for seventeen years at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, the last eight years as the Assistant Director of Music.  He has also been the conductor of the St. Albans Bach Choir since 1998 and was Artistic Director of the St. Albans International Organ Festival from 1999 until the end of 2007, directing four biennial festivals from 2001 to 2007, and their intervening concert series.

Entrance is by programme at a cost of £8 and includes refreshments served from 11:00

PROGRAMME

François Couperin (1668-1733)
            Five movements from Messe pour les Paroisses                

  i.     Plain-chant du premier Kyrie, en taille
 ii.     Fugue sur les jeux d'anches. Deuxième couplet
iii.     Récit de chromhorne. Troisième couplet
iv.     Tierce en taille, Sixième couplet (Gloria)
 v.     Offertoire sur les Grands jeux.

S Wesley (1766-1750)
            Air and Gavotte 

J S Bach (1685-1750)
            Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 547

Herbert Howells (1892 - 1983)
            Master Tallis' Testament from Six Pieces:        

Kenneth Leighton (1929-88)
            Scherzo Op 41b

Max Reger (1873-1916)
            Dankpsalm