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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Organ Recital: Ruport Gough (St Bartholomew the Great)
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DESCRIPTION:‘Music for the Easter Season’\n\nEdward Bairstow (1874-194
 6)\n- Toccata-prelude on the plainsong Pange lingua \n\nCésar Franck (182
 2-1890)\n- Prière\n\nPierre Cogen (1931-2025)\n- Offrandre en la fête de
  Pâques\n\nCharles Tournemire (1870-1939)\n- Fantasie-improvisation sur l
 e Victimae paschali\n\nRupert 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 chu
 rch\, St Bartholomew the Great\, which maintains a professional choir. At 
 Royal Holloway\, Rupert has developed the choral programme to include week
 ly choral recitals\, conducting courses for undergraduates\, frequent new 
 choral commissions and has transformed the Chapel Choir into an elite grou
 p of 24 choral scholars. \n\nRupert has a discography of over 50 recording
 s as organist and conductor with labels from Hyperion to Decca Classics. H
 e 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 teache
 r he has a legacy of former students now working in cathedrals\, conservat
 oires and winning international organ competitions in Europe and the USA. 
 Rupert is a regular reviewer of organ recordings and has had a number of c
 ompositions\, editions and arrangements published by OUP\, Edition Peters 
 and Carus Verlag.\n\nThe Temple Church organ\nThe organ in the Temple chur
 ch was built in 1924 for the Castle of Glen Tanar\, Aberdeenshire\, and in
 stalled in 1954 in the rebuilt church (following war damage)\, the gift of
  Lord Glentanar. The organ case was designed by W. E. Godfrey and installe
 d 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 re
 built in 2013 by Harrison and Harrison of Durham and has 66 stops over fou
 r manuals.  \n\n\n\n\nFuture recitals – Wednesdays at 1.15 pm\n\n6 May
  – Miriam Reveley (Jesus College\, Cambridge)\n13 May – no recital\n20
  May – Yvette Murphy (Temple Church)\n27 May – Steven Grahl (Trinity C
 ollege\, Cambridge)\n3 June – Charles Andrews (Temple Church)\n10 June 
 – Ben Collyer (Manchester Cathedral)\n17 June – George Inscoe (St Paul
 ’s Cathedral)\n24 June – Martin Ford (The Guards’ Chapel\, Westminst
 er)\n1 July – Pingping Chen (Royal College of Music)\n8 July – Gavin P
 helps (Oundle Recital Award)\n15 July – Simon Hogan (Southwark Cathedral
 )\n22 July – Charles Andrews (Temple Church)
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LOCATION:The Temple Church\, London
URL:https://www.templechurch.com/music/lunchtime-organ-recitals
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