Saturday, April 20th at 7.30pm

Richard Johnson (organ)

Richard’s concert will be enhanced with a video projection from the organ to a large screen in front of the Chancel which will show the orperation of the manuals and pedals during the performance. This will enable to audience to appreciate the skill of the organist. The video equipent and operation will be provided by the Bristol and District Organist Association.

Tickets £10, students over 16 half price, children free. Unreserved seating but please respect Covid prevention advice -Tickets on the door.

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The first half is three substantial German pieces from each of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.  The second half is a tour through three periods of English organ music: early, romantic, and modern.  The programme for this concert includes a variety of music and demonstrates what the organ can do.

Fantasia & Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 – Johann Sebastian Bach

Sonata no. 2 in C minor, Op. 65, no, 2 – Felix Mendelssohn

Sonata no. 1 – Paul Hindemith

Interval

Fancy – William Byrd

Con spirito – Thomas Arne

Trumpet Voluntary – William Boyce

Choral Prelude on “Greensleeves” – Alec Rowley

Master Tallis’s Testament – Herbert Howells

Festal Offertorium – Percy Fletcher

Lullaby – Huw Morgan

Paean – Philip Moore

Richard Johnson

Richard Johnson combines a professional career as a patent attorney with a busy schedule of musical activities. This double life began at Oxford University, where he simultaneously held an academic scholarship in physics with the organ scholarship at Oriel College. Since 2004 he has been organist at Westbury-on-Trym Parish Church, a member of Exultate Singers, and Accompanist to the City of Bristol Choir.

Richard has played for services at many of the UK’s cathedrals, including St Paul’s, Salisbury, Wells and Winchester, and has featured on BBC Radio 3’s Choral Evensong with the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir and BBC television’s Songs of Praise with the City of Bristol Choir and Exultate Singers.