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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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Mr Morris is back at the keys for this weeks organ piece

10 Monday Mar 2014

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The latest upload on the Royal Hospital School’s Organ YouTube channel is now ready to be viewed (and listened to). This week Oliver Morris, Crompton Organ Scholar is playing Ave Maria by Franz Liszt.

Remember, you can check the channel each week for new instalments and also subscribe on YouTube.

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Second instalment on the Organ YouTube Channel

25 Tuesday Feb 2014

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This week it was Director of Music, Mr Saunders’ turn to take to the keys and perform a light piece on the Grand Organ at the Royal Hospital School. The piece is  ‘Pieds-en-l’air from the Capriol Suite’ by Peter Warlock.

Don’t forget to check the channel each week for the next piece!

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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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Hundreds of pupils try their hands (and feet) on the King of Instruments

22 Wednesday Jan 2014

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On Monday 20 January Tom Bell, an internationally acclaimed recitalist and visiting organ teacher at the Royal Hospital School, hosted the first RHS Organ Open Day, assisted by Crompton Organ Scholar Oli Morris. The organ loft was open all day for pupils to enjoy interactive demonstrations.

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More than a hundred pupils of all ages flocked up and down the stairs to the organ loft over the course of the day, many of whom were able to try their hands (and feet) at mastering the one of the finest pipe organs in Europe. Some were even lucky enough to be shown inside the impressive instrument itself, coming face to face with its scale and complexities.

William Saunders, Director of Music, said, “The day was a triumphant success, giving RHS pupils a much deeper understanding and appreciation of the extraordinary work of art that has, until now, loomed forbiddingly above them – a mystery to all but a tiny few. Given the popularity of the event, we hope to repeat it each term and eventually ensure that nobody passes through RHS without learning a little more about the King of Instruments and realising quite how lucky we are to have so majestic an example sitting, ready for use, in our own Chapel”.

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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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