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HALIFAX MINSTER ORGAN RECITAL BY PROFESSOR DAVID BAKER, 8 MARCH, 1.00PM

RECITAL AT HALIFAX MINSTER

8 MARCH 2018

BY PROFESSOR DAVID BAKER

PROGRAMME

           

            Fanfare                                                                                              Percy Whitlock

            Elegy in A flat                                                                                   Hubert Parry   (100th anniversary of his death 

            Chorale Prelude on ‘Dundee’                                                        Hubert Parry

            From the ’32 Voluntaries and Pieces for Organ’                        William Herschel[1]

                        Preludium I in D major

                        Preludium IV in D minor/F major

                        Preludium XX in C major

            Chorale Prelude on ‘St Anne’                                                        Hubert Parry

            Dance with the Saints                                                                     Colin Mawby

            Sanctus and Benedictus from the Messe pour les Paroisses  Francois Couperin  (350th anniversary of his birth)

            Rhapsody in C sharp minor                                                           Herbert Howells      (composed March 1918)

[1] On the Snetzler organ – to celebrate the completion of the edition of all Herschel’s organ music by David Baker and Christopher Bagot and its publication by Fitzjohn Music Publications

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Snetzler Organ 250th Anniversary

HALIFAX MINSTER’S SNETZLER ORGAN IS 250!
Come along to our 250th Anniversary Recital by Professor David Baker
at Halifax Minster on Thursday 22nd September 2016
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm (refreshments available from 12:15 pm)
Free entry – retiring collection
For full details: organ-250-poster
Also there is still time to book a place on the RCO technique class at St Thomas’s Church, Heptonstall on 24th September where Anne Marsden Thomas will be holding this class.  Further details can be found at https://www.rco.org.uk/events.php?eventid=443.
Please contact David Baker at d.baker152@btinternet.com for further details and possible discounts!

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Re-dedication of the Wellhead Snetzler Organ at Halifax Minster, 1 March 2015

On 1 March, 2015 at 16.00, the 1770 Snetzler chamber organ originally built for John Waterhouse, Churchwarden of Halifax Parish Church, will  be re-dedicated at a service of Evensong with Procession at Halifax Minster. The preacher will be the Archdeacon of Halifax. After the service there will be refreshments and a short recital by Professor David Baker. Further details from info@halifaxminster.org.uk or 01422-355436.  Photography by David Glover.

Well Head Snetzler 058 Well Head Snetzler 059

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Horbury Snetzler now at Halifax Minster

The 1770 Snetzler organ (a close up of which is  pictured on this website’s home page and banner) is now installed in the Houldsworth Chapel at Halifax Minster. The organ is in remarkably good condition after being moved from St Peter’s Convent, Horbury by Rodney Briscoe. Professor David Baker’s lunchtime recital on 8 January 2015 at 1.00pm will feature the instrument in a range of music from Sweelinck to Douglas Bell. More details shortly.

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