Tuesday March 7th to April 11th@ 8pm

Sandford Parish Church in Ranelagh is organising an exciting series of concerts during Lent – these will take place every Tuesday from March 7th to April 11th at 8pm. The first five concerts are organ or organ and soprano recitals, given by organists David Adams, David Leigh, David Bremner, Mark Duley and Andrew Johnstone, and sopranos Tara Eraught and Elizabeth Hilliard.

A great variety of music is being presented, including operatic arias by Handel and Mozart, Liszt’s Prelude and Fugue on the name BACH, Couperin’s Premiere Lecon de Tenebres, an all-Bach Lenten recital by Mark Duley, a selection from Guy Bovet’s Tangos ecclesiasticos, Anton Heiller’s Fantasia super ‘Salve Regina’, Kenneth Leighton’s setting of George Herbert’s poem of renewal ‘These are thy wonders’ and much more.

The series concludes with the Irish premiere of Karl Stirner’s St John Passion. In this contemporary rethink of the Passion story, the composer’s desire to focus on the ‘human’ elements of the story is reflected in the intimate scoring (4 soloists, choir, string quintet and organ) and the understated but highly vivid musical gestures.

The full list of concerts is as follows:

March 7th 8pm – Tara Eraught (mezzo-soprano) and David Adams (organ)
Handel: Ouverture, Sta nell’ ircana, Ombra mai fu
Mozart: Fugue in C minor K426, Deh per questo; Parto, ma tu ben mio
Liszt: Die Loreley, Zur Trauung, Prelude and Fugue on the name BACH
Tickets e8/5

March 14th 8pm – David Leigh (organ)
Programme to include Anton Heiller: Fantasia super ‘Salve Regina’ and
Lionel Rogg: Variations sur le Psaume 91
Tickets e8/5

March 21st 8pm – Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano) and David Bremner (organ)
Programme to include Couperin: Premiere Lecon de Tenebres, J.S.Bach: Von
Gott will ich nicht lassen BWV658, Charles Ives: Hymn, Chausson: Pater
Noster and Kenneth Leighton: These are thy wonders
Tickets e8/5

March 28th 8pm – Mark Duley (organ)
J.S.Bach: Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV544, a selection of chorale
preludes from the Orgelbuchlein and the Leipzig Chorales, Prelude and Fugue
in E minor BWV548 “The Wedge”
Tickets e8/5

April 4th 8pm – Andrew Johnstone (organ)
‘Tangos and Toccatas’: music from Guy Bovet: Tangos ecclesiasticos and
Georg Muffat: Apparatus Musico-Organisticus
Tickets e8/5

April 11th 8pm – Karl Stirner: St. John Passion (Irish Premiere)
evA - Maria de Moel
Jesus (female) - Elizabeth Hilliard
Jesus (male) - Eoin Supple
Petrus/Pilatus – Nicholas McMurry
Conducted by David Bremner
Tickets e15/10

The church is located at the junction of Sandford and Marlborough Rds in Ranelagh. For more information, contact David Bremner at davidbremner@hotmail.com or 086 6014980.