Lunchtime Organ Recital: Ruport Gough (St Bartholomew the Great)

for 30 mins
The Temple Church, London
The Temple Church, Temple, London, EC4Y 1BB, United Kingdom

‘Music for the Easter Season’

Edward Bairstow (1874-1946)
- Toccata-prelude on the plainsong Pange lingua

César Franck (1822-1890)
- Prière

Pierre Cogen (1931-2025)
- Offrandre en la fête de Pâques

Charles Tournemire (1870-1939)
- Fantasie-improvisation sur le Victimae paschali

Rupert Gough has been Director of Choral Music and College Organist at Royal Holloway, University of London, since 2005. He is also Organist and Director of Music at London’s oldest surviving church, St Bartholomew the Great, which maintains a professional choir. At Royal Holloway, Rupert has developed the choral programme to include weekly choral recitals, conducting courses for undergraduates, frequent new choral commissions and has transformed the Chapel Choir into an elite group of 24 choral scholars.

Rupert has a discography of over 50 recordings as organist and conductor with labels from Hyperion to Decca Classics. He is particularly in demand working with contemporary composers including, most recently, with Ola Gjeilo and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. As an organist, he has performed widely as both soloist and in ensemble in concerts across Europe, the USA, Far East and Russia. As an organ teacher he has a legacy of former students now working in cathedrals, conservatoires and winning international organ competitions in Europe and the USA. Rupert is a regular reviewer of organ recordings and has had a number of compositions, editions and arrangements published by OUP, Edition Peters and Carus Verlag.

The Temple Church organ
The organ in the Temple church was built in 1924 for the Castle of Glen Tanar, Aberdeenshire, and installed in 1954 in the rebuilt church (following war damage), the gift of Lord Glentanar. The organ case was designed by W. E. Godfrey and installed in 1966 and is modelled on drawings of the Temple’s Father Smith organ of 1688, showing the crests of Inner and Middle Temple. The organ was rebuilt in 2013 by Harrison and Harrison of Durham and has 66 stops over four manuals.  

Future recitals – Wednesdays at 1.15 pm

6 May – Miriam Reveley (Jesus College, Cambridge)
13 May – no recital
20 May – Yvette Murphy (Temple Church)
27 May – Steven Grahl (Trinity College, Cambridge)
3 June – Charles Andrews (Temple Church)
10 June – Ben Collyer (Manchester Cathedral)
17 June – George Inscoe (St Paul’s Cathedral)
24 June – Martin Ford (The Guards’ Chapel, Westminster)
1 July – Pingping Chen (Royal College of Music)
8 July – Gavin Phelps (Oundle Recital Award)
15 July – Simon Hogan (Southwark Cathedral)
22 July – Charles Andrews (Temple Church)

More info Join online

The Temple Church, London

Welcome to the prayerful and beautiful Temple Church, steeped in the history of Christendom, this country and the whole Common Law World. 1162: the Round Church was built to be London’s Jerusalem. 1214–19: Magna Carta was negotiated in the Temple, and its greatest hero was buried in the Church. 1584, 1776, 1787: from Raleigh’s expeditions through the colonial constitutions to the American Declaration of Independence and Constitution, the Temple was the birthplace of American Law. And to this day the Church serves the legal colleges Inner and Middle Temple, London’s residents, visiting jurists and travellers from all over the world with some of the most uplifting services, music and discussions in London.

How can so ancient a building be equipped to serve the modern age in prayer and praise and engagement with the socio-legal challenges facing Britain and the wider world? Through Restoration & Renewal: Equipping the Temple Church for the next 100 Years, a major programme of refurbishment and repair, energised and supported by The Friends of the Temple Church.

Robin Griffith-Jones Master of the Temple
Mark Hatcher Reader of the Temple

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Lunchtime Organ Recital: Ruport Gough (St Bartholomew the Great)

for 30 mins
The Temple Church, London
The Temple Church, Temple, London, EC4Y 1BB, United Kingdom

‘Music for the Easter Season’

Edward Bairstow (1874-1946)
- Toccata-prelude on the plainsong Pange lingua

César Franck (1822-1890)
- Prière

Pierre Cogen (1931-2025)
- Offrandre en la fête de Pâques

Charles Tournemire (1870-1939)
- Fantasie-improvisation sur le Victimae paschali

Rupert Gough has been Director of Choral Music and College Organist at Royal Holloway, University of London, since 2005. He is also Organist and Director of Music at London’s oldest surviving church, St Bartholomew the Great, which maintains a professional choir. At Royal Holloway, Rupert has developed the choral programme to include weekly choral recitals, conducting courses for undergraduates, frequent new choral commissions and has transformed the Chapel Choir into an elite group of 24 choral scholars.

Rupert has a discography of over 50 recordings as organist and conductor with labels from Hyperion to Decca Classics. He is particularly in demand working with contemporary composers including, most recently, with Ola Gjeilo and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. As an organist, he has performed widely as both soloist and in ensemble in concerts across Europe, the USA, Far East and Russia. As an organ teacher he has a legacy of former students now working in cathedrals, conservatoires and winning international organ competitions in Europe and the USA. Rupert is a regular reviewer of organ recordings and has had a number of compositions, editions and arrangements published by OUP, Edition Peters and Carus Verlag.

The Temple Church organ
The organ in the Temple church was built in 1924 for the Castle of Glen Tanar, Aberdeenshire, and installed in 1954 in the rebuilt church (following war damage), the gift of Lord Glentanar. The organ case was designed by W. E. Godfrey and installed in 1966 and is modelled on drawings of the Temple’s Father Smith organ of 1688, showing the crests of Inner and Middle Temple. The organ was rebuilt in 2013 by Harrison and Harrison of Durham and has 66 stops over four manuals.  

Future recitals – Wednesdays at 1.15 pm

6 May – Miriam Reveley (Jesus College, Cambridge)
13 May – no recital
20 May – Yvette Murphy (Temple Church)
27 May – Steven Grahl (Trinity College, Cambridge)
3 June – Charles Andrews (Temple Church)
10 June – Ben Collyer (Manchester Cathedral)
17 June – George Inscoe (St Paul’s Cathedral)
24 June – Martin Ford (The Guards’ Chapel, Westminster)
1 July – Pingping Chen (Royal College of Music)
8 July – Gavin Phelps (Oundle Recital Award)
15 July – Simon Hogan (Southwark Cathedral)
22 July – Charles Andrews (Temple Church)

More info Join online

Safeguarding

The care and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults who are involved in Church activities is the responsibility of the whole Church. Everyone who participates in the life of the Church has a role to play in promoting a Safer Church for all.This Safeguarding Policy is based on the Safeguarding Policy Statement of the Church of England that was agreed and published by the House of Bishops in 2017. It sets out the Safeguarding Policy of the Diocese of London and in particular a summary of the roles and responsibilities of all church bodies and office holders as we work together to protect children, young people and vulnerable adults who are involved in church activities.

This policy makes six overarching policy commitments:

To promote a safer environment and culture
To enable and ensure safe recruitment practice and to support all those within the Church with any responsibility related to children, young people, and vulnerable adults
To respond promptly to every safeguarding concern or allegation
To offer pastoral care to victims/survivors of abuse and other affected persons
To offer pastoral care to those who are the subject of concerns or allegations of abuse and other affected persons
To respond to those who may pose a present risk to others.

https://www.templechurch.com/application/files/7216/2074/0149/Temple_Church_Safeguarding_Policy_revi

The Temple Church, London Charity No. 1205712