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Sunday
Afternoon Organ Music™
by Paul Carr
established 2003
On the first
Sunday of every month at 3.00pm
Holy Trinity Parish Church
High Street
Wordsley, Stourbridge
West Midlands DY8 5RU
Admission free
Highlights during 2010 include:
Edward Bairstow: Organ Sonata
Louis Vierne: Symphony no. 6
 Paul's
series at Holy Trinity, Wordsley, began in September 2003, following the
ten-year series of Saturday lunchtime recitals at Cradley Heath.
All of Paul's programmes to date are listed further down this page.
Programmes are an eclectic mix of individual organ pieces, movements
from larger scale works and transcriptions of works written for other
instruments or ensembles.
During the series Paul has performed the following major organ works in
their entirety:
Louis Vierne - Symphony no. 2 in E minor, Symphony no.
4 in G minor
Charles-Marie Widor - Symphony no. 5 in F minor,
Symphony no. 6 in G minor, Symphony no. 7 in A minor
Alexandre Guilmant - Sonata no. 1 in D minor
J.S. Bach - Trio Sonatas no. 1 in E flat BWV 525, no.
4 in E minor BWV 528, no. 5 in C BWV 529
Joseph Jongen - Sonata Eroïca.
Sir William Harris - Organ Sonata in A minor
Basil Harwood - Organ Sonata in C sharp minor
Flor Peeters - Suite Modale
Paul Spicer - Suite for Organ
Felix Mendelssohn - Complete Organ Sonatas (during
2009, to mark the composer's 200th anniversary)
He has also dedicated entire programmes to the music of J.S. Bach,
Marcel Dupré and living composers (in particular Paul Spicer, Naji Hakim
and David Briggs)
  Sunday Afternoon Organ Music™
takes place on the first
Sunday of every month at 3.00pm and lasts for around 45 minutes.
A view of the organ console is usually projected onto a large screen at
the front of the church, giving excellent views of the performer.
Admission to the recitals is free. A retiring collection is taken to
defray printing costs and to assist in funding the care and maintenance
of the instrument.
Holy
Trinity Parish Church is situated on the A491 which runs between
Stourbridge and Kingswinford. The nearest railway station is Stourbridge
Town.
There is ample car parking on the car parks behind the church hall and
in front of the church gates.
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Sunday 7th March 2010: 3.00pm
'J.S. Bach'
The annual programme devoted entirely to the music of J.S.
Bach (1685-1750)
'Great' Prelude and Fugue in G BWV 541
Herr Gott, nun Schleuss den Himmel auf BWV 617
Great' Prelude and Fugue in C minor BWV 546
Ach, bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 649
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier BWV 731
Fantasia in G BWV 572
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Sunday 3rd January 2010: ‘French Flair’
A programme of French organ music including works by
Parisian composers Maurice Duruflé and Camille Saint-Saëns
Sunday 7th February at 2010: 'Old with New’
A programme of organ works written during the last two decades
alongside works from the 17th 18th and 19th centuries
Sunday 7th March 2010: ‘J.S. Bach’
The annual programme devoted entirely to the music of J.S. Bach
Sunday 4th April 2010: ‘Easter Day Organ Music’
Music for Easter by composers including Jean Langlais and Herbert
Howells
concluding with an improvisation on Easter hymn tunes
Sunday 2nd May 2010: ‘USA away!’
A chance to hear the programme performed by Paul at Chicago’s
Fourth Presbyterian Church during April
Sunday 6th June 2010: ‘Sonata’
A programme of English organ music including Sonata in E
flat by Sir Edward Bairstow
Sunday 4th July 2010: ‘American Independence Day’
A musical celebration including Marche Américaine by
Charles-Marie Widor,
Variations on America by Charles Ives and marches by John
Philip Sousa
Sunday 1st August 2010: ‘Overture’
Overtures originally written for the organ alongside
transcriptions of well-known orchestral overtures,
all of which contain many memorable tunes
Sunday 5th September 2010: ‘For The Abbey’
A preview of Paul’s Sunday evening organ recital programme for
Westminster Abbey on September 12th
Sunday 3rd October 2010: ‘Toccata!’
Covering the keyboard, thousands of notes at high speeds
from composers including Léon Boëllmann, Henri Mulet, J.S. Bach and
Percy Whitlock
Sunday 7th November 2010: 'Symphony’
The sublime, yet spectacular Sixth Symphony by Louis Vierne,
the early 20th century Organist of Notre-Dame de Paris
Sunday 5th December 2010: ‘Festal Flourish’
Music for Advent and Christmas by composers including Alexandre
Guilmant,
Louis-Claude Daquin and Andrew Carter
Programmes: September
2003 - Present
left to right:
Paul at the console
of Holy Trinity, the audience assembling one Sunday afternoon,
and Paul talking about the series during an interview on local radio
- The 'Bridge 102.5FM
Organ Specification
1838 Bevington & Sons; 1882 Nicholson & Lord; 1887 Banfield & Sons;
1910 Conacher; 1946 Nelson; 1982 Sheffield;
1999 Tipple (accessories)
Pedal
1 Open Diapason Wood 16
2 Open Diapason Metal 16
3 Bourdon 16
4 Lieblich Bourdon 16
5 Octave Diapason 8
6 Bass Flute 8
7 Fifteenth 4
8 Tromba 16
9 Tromba 8
Positif
10 Stopped Diapason 8
11 Flute 4
12 Nazard 2 2/3
13 Wald Flute 2
14 Tierce 1 3/5
15 Crummhorn 8
16 Tromba 8
17 Tremulant
Great
18 Double Diapason 16
19 Open Diapason 8
20 Hohl Flute 8
21 Dulciana 8
22 Principal 4
23 Harmonic Flute 4
24 Twelfth 2 2/3
25 Fifteenth 2
26 Mixture III
27 Tromba 8
28 Clarion 4
Swell
29 Open Diapason 8
30 Flauto Traverso 8
31 Viol da Orchestra 8
32 Voix Celeste 8
33 Principal 4
34 Fifteenth 2
35 Contra Fagotto 16
36 Cornopean 8
37 Hautbois 8
Couplers
38 Swell to Great; 39 Swell to Pedal ; 40 Positif to Great; 41 Great to
Pedal;
42 Positif to Pedal; 43 Swell to Positif; 44 Swell Octave
Accessories
Pistons: 6 general, 6 Swell, 6 Great, 6 Pedal (toe), 6 Positif.
Reversible thumb pistons: sw-pd, gt-pd, sw-gt, pos-pd;
Reversible toe pistons: gt-pd, sw-gt, Tromba 16';
General cancel thumb piston
2-level memory
All pistons can be made either Reversible, General or Departmental
The organ is in the care of Trevor G. Tipple - Organ Builder
Series by kind permission of Holy Trinity PCC
and Barrie Davis - Director of Music
Sunday Afternoon Organ Music™
by Paul Carr
established 2003
on the first Sunday of every month at 3.00pm
Holy Trinity Parish Church,
Wordsley, Stourbridge,
West Midlands DY8 5RU
Join the Sunday Afternoon Organ
Music ™ e-Mailing List
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