A Concert of Choral and Organ Music

David Butler : Conductor
Michael Thomas : Accompanist

The programme will include music by the following composers:

William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875)
Professor of music at Cambridge and principal of the Royal Academy of Music.

Frederick Bridge (1844-1924)
Organist of Westminster Abbey for over 40 years as well as professor at the Royal College of Music.

Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
Best remembered for his partnership with W S Gilbert. He studied under Sterndale Bennett.

Piotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
What more needs to be said!

Sir F A G Ouseley (1825-1889)
Professor of music at Oxford.

Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876)
Organist successively at Hereford, Exeter, Winchester and Gloucester cathedrals with a spell also at Leeds Parish Church.

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Prolific composer of orchestral, vocal, piano and organ music. He was a frequent and popular visitor to Britain.

Amongst the British composers runs a connecting thread - Felix Mendelssohn. Sterndale Bennett was a lifelong friend, Ouseley is known to have played a duet with Mendelssohn whilst only 6 and Wesley's father Samuel was also a friend of Mendelssohn. As Sullivan studied in Leipzig one suspects he was influenced by Mendelssohn's music.

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