Performers:
Richard Gowers (St George’s, Hanover Square), organ

Programme:
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Te Deum Laudamus
I. Prelude
II. 2 Versus
Versus 1
Te Deum laudamus
Te Martyrum candidatus laudat exercitus
Tu devocto mortis æuleo
Versus 2
 Pleni sunt cœli et terra

William Walton (1902-1983) arr. Robert Gower
Suite from Henry V
March
Passacaglia
Touch her soft lips and part

Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Psalm Prelude Op. 32 No. 1 – Psalm 34 v 6

Roxanna Panufnik (1968-)
Gloria cum jubilo

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Land of our birth

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C, BWV 564

Event Summary:
Richard Gowers is a renowned pianist, organist and conductor. As a concert organist he has given international recitals in locations including Sweden and Australia, and he teaches advanced keyboard skills at his alma mater, the Royal Academy of Music.

Richard’s programme celebrates the festival’s theme of music and literature, and showcases several Barnes composers through the distinctive character of the Peter Collins organ at St Mary’s Church.

He begins with Buxtehude’s Te Deum Laudamus, a composer who had significant influence on Bach. Then arrangements of William Walton’s Suite from Laurence Olivier’s film adaptation of Henry V, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Land of our birth.

Finally, two Barnes composers, Herbert Howells and Roxanna Panufnik. Howells’s Psalm Prelude is a musical meditation on a verse of Psalm 34, while Panufnik bases her rapturous ‘Gloria cum jubilo’ on ancient plainsong melodies and Bulgarian folk rhythms.