St Just in Roseland
Organ Week 2014
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JONATHAN BIELBY MBE
Organist Emeritus Wakefield Cathedral
Three Linked Organ
Recitals
Tuesday 19th August at 7pm
War and Peace
Thursday 21st August at 7pm
By Special Request
Saturday 23rd August at 7pm
If Music be the Food of Love
Tickets at the door
One concert £6 Two concerts £10 Three concerts £15
Accompanied under 16s FREE
Further details 0788 4088 488 or
jonathanbielby@gmail.com
Many thanks to the Revd Ken Boullier and the
Church Council for permission to use the church
This year's Featured Composer is Diderik Buxtehude
Tuesday 19th August
War and Peace
Music from the time of the Great War coupled with works of
sadness and heroism
Rhapsody Op. 17, No. 1 (1915)
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
The Battle (excerpts)
William Byrd (1543-1623)
March of the footmen - March of the horsemen - Trumpets Burying of the dead - Galliard for the victory
Elegy
George Thalben-Ball (1896-1987)
Music for the Royal Fireworks
La Paix - La Rejouissance
G. F. Handel (1685-1759)
Toccata (1912)
Gaston Bélier (1863-1938)
INTERVAL
Praeludium in D (BuxWV 139) Diderik Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Syrinx (1913)
Jayne Bielby (flute)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Cortège (24 Pièces) (1914)
Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
Chorale Prelude (BWV 721)
Erbarm dich mein, O Herre Gott
Pièce Héroïque
J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
César Franck (1822-1890)
Thursday 21st August
By Special Request Pieces requested by last year's audiences
War March of the Priests
Jig Fugue (BWV 577)
Ombra mai fù (Larghetto)
Rhapsody Op. 17, No. 2 (1918)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
G. F. Handel (1685-1759)
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Praeludium in C (BuxWV 137) Diderik Buxtehude (1637-1707)
INTERVAL
Toccata in G
Théodore Dubois (1937-1924)
Ashokan Farewell
Jayne Bielby (flute)
Jay Ungar (b.1946)
Serenade
The White Rose
Derek Bourgeois (b. 1941)
Cornish Folksong arr. Jonathan Bielby
Carillon de Westminster
Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
Saturday 23rd August
If Music be the Food of Love
In the 450th anniversary of his birth a celebration of
Shakespeare in music
March (Prelude to Richard III)
William Walton (1902-1983)
Music from Shakespeare's England:
Callino Casturame (Byrd) - La Bounette - Watkin's Ale (Anon.)
Jayne Bielby (recorder)
Nine Variations on a Well-known Tune Jonathan Bielby (b.1944)
Each variation is in the style of a particular composer. If you
wish, you may fill in the name of the composer below (answers in
the interval!).
Variation 1
Variation 6
Variation 2
Variation 7
Variation 3
Variation 8
Variation 4
Variation 9
Variation 5
Name of the tune
INTERVAL
Rhapsody Op. 17, No. 3 (1918)
Jig Fugue in C (BuxWV 174)
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Diderik Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Fotheringhay Suite
Douglas Bell (b.1932)
Mr Bull's Sortie - Mary's Dumpë - Royal Tordion Lantern Song - A Hymn for Richard III
Incidental Music:
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Scherzo - Nocturne - Wedding March
(Midsummer's Night Dream)
Jonathan Bielby was educated at Magdalen College School,
Oxford and St John’s College, Cambridge where he was Organ
Scholar. He became Assistant Organist of Manchester Cathedral
and taught at Chethams and the RMCM. He is Organist Emeritus
of Wakefield Cathedral where he was Organist and Director of
Music for forty years from 1970 to 2010.
Jonathan also worked in Huddersfield at the Town Hall as first
Kirklees Borough Organist; and for 25 years in Leeds at the
College of Music as a full-time lecturer. He has composed
extensively for choir and organ and nurtured the careers of many
choristers and organists.
He has been awarded honorary fellowships by the Guild of
Church Musicians and the Royal School of Church Music. He
was appointed MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2011.
In the last year Jonathan has held 3 month Acting Directorships
of Music at Magdalene College, Cambridge and St Mary
Redcliffe, Bristol.
Jayne Bielby learnt recorders and flute with John Turner and
Rogrer Rostron of the Hallé Orchestra. She has a music degree
from Manchester University and an MSc from Huddersfield. She
works as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Newquay Health
Centre. At the age of 8 she attended one of Jonathan's recitals in
Salford and 24 years later married him! She loves organ music
but dislikes turning pages, despite being rather good at it.
For future local and national concerts, see
www.organrecitals.com