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Peter Crompton returns to RHS to give Organ Recital

04 Wednesday Jun 2014

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Peter Crompton

On Sunday 8 June Peter Crompton will be returning to the Royal Hospital School to perform in the final Organ Recital of the current series.

Peter, Organist Emeritus and former Director of Music at RHS, worked at the School for almost 40 years before retiring last summer. No one knows the keys of the Grand Organ better, making this a concert one not to be missed! You can expect dazzling displays of organ management during the programme of popular organ greats.

The recital will begin at 7.30pm in the School Chapel. Admission is free (with a retiring collection) so no need to book. For more information please contact the Music School on 01473 326222 or email music@royalhospitalschool.org

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Virtuoso! Celebrity Organ Recital by Daniel Moult

11 Friday Apr 2014

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On Saturday 10 May Daniel Moult will be performing at the Royal Hospital School on the Grand Organ. The concert will begin at 7pm with pre-concert drinks from 6.30pm. Daniel Moult is renowned both in the UK and abroad for his intelligent and engaging performances. His repertoire ranges from 14th to 21st century and he has been heralded as “one of the finest organists of our time” by The Organ.

Daniel studied at Oxford and gained his Fellowship diploma of the Royal College of Organists. As a concert organist he performs throughout the UK, Europe, Australia and Singapore. As a soloist he have performed in a variety of cathedrals, churches, concert halls and town halls including The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Huddersfield Town Hall and The Albert Hamm, Nottingham; as well as many European festivals and concert rooms.

PrintThe concert will be held in the School Chapel and tickets are available from the Ipswich Regent Box Office: 01473 433100 or www.ipswichregent.com.

Tickets: Full: £10, Concessions: £7, Under 18: Free

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The organ is put through its paces this week!

18 Tuesday Mar 2014

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This week Crompton Organ Scholar, Oliver Morris, plays a classic piece on the Grand Organ.

Toccata in D minor, by JS Bach, is one of the most famous works in the organ repertoire. It has been used in film, video games, rock music and ringtones. One of the most famous adaptations of the piece was for the 1962 version of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’.

Don’t forget that you can subscribe to the Organ YouTube Channel, just click on the video above to take you to the channel.

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New Organ YouTube Channel

13 Thursday Feb 2014

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Director of Music, Mr Saunders and Crompton Organ Scholar, Oliver Morris, have launched the RHS Organ YouTube channel. This will showcase different pieces played on the Grand Organ in the School Chapel as they put the magnificent instrument through its paces.

This week the piece is JS Bach Prelude in E minor played by Oliver Morris:

Look out for more pieces that will be uploaded on a weekly basis.

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Review by Roger Pulham: Simon Johnson’s Organ Recital

14 Monday Oct 2013

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RHS hosts Simon Johnson

On Saturday 5 October Simon Johnson, organist of St Paul’s Cathedral, performed a fantastic programme on the Royal Hospital School’s Grand Organ. Roger Pulham was in the audience; here is his review:

“Saturday the 5th of October 2013 was a bright late autumn day and as I drove over the Orwell Bridge to Holbrook there was a glorious sunset in front of me. From the top of the bridge you can clearly see the campanile of the Royal Hospital School. All augured well for an enjoyable occasion. You will all by now be familiar with the sight and sound of the marvellous Hill, Norman & Beard organ at the west end of the chapel, and  to add to our delight a large screen was erected in the centre of the chapel, the cameras focused on the console and operated by two students.

Simon Johnson is the organist of St. Paul’s Cathedral and is well used to the acoustic challenges of large reverberant building so we were not to be disappointed.  His program was: The first movement of the Elgar organ sonata in G,  Andante from Widor’s Symphonie Gothique, Prelude and Fugue in G minor by Dupre, J.S.Bach’s Chorale Prelude on “Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr”, Prelude and Fugue in E minor op35 No 1 by Mendelssohn transcribed from the piano by Reitze Smits, Scherzo and Cantabile from Symphony No 2 in E minor by Vierne and finally Herbert Brewer’s Marche Heroique. 

It goes without saying that every item was played with enormous skill and style, the interpretations fresh and clear. The RHS organ and the Elgar seem to be a wedding made in heaven, great use was made of all the solo stops and how splendid they sounded, now a clarinet, then an orchestral oboe, then viole strings.   

If there were more highlights they were surely Simon’s playing of the hugely energetic Dupre prelude and fugue in G minor. It was useful to be able to see the player because the rapid left hand and pedal passages were submerged in the famous long reverberence to great effect. Dupre would have been pleased.

The Mendelssohn was interesting being a transcription of a piano piece. It was a classic prelude and fugue in the Bach style, all the correct academic attributes, but what an astonishing ending, think of the last couple of pages of Bach’s fugue from the Toccata and Fugue in F and add a quotation from the chorale “Ein Feste Burg” (A safe stronghold) as it occurs in Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony.

The Brewer Marche Heroique is a march which Elgar could have written, and another composition made for this organ. May we hear many more.     

Our host William Saunders invited members of the audience to the music school to meet Simon Johnson afterwards over a glass of wine. Those of you who could not attend this recital missed one of the highlights of the musical year as sponsored by the Suffolk Organists Association.”

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Peter Crompton’s Final Organ Recital as Director of Music at the Royal Hospital School

14 Tuesday May 2013

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Peter Crompton will be performing a Toccata Spectacular in the Chapel on Saturday 22 June at 1pm. This organ recital will be Peter’s final concert as Director of Music at the Royal Hospital School as he retires from the post at the end of June. Don’t miss out on hearing this extraordinary organ recital on such an exquisite instrument.

Poster A.2Admission to this concert is free. There will be a retiring collection in aid of the Chapel Choir Tour to Northern Germany which will be departing on the 30 June. To ensure you have a seat please book by phoning 01473 326222 or through www.rhscommunity.co.uk

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