The Vice-Chancellor's Concert - Laurence Cummings

Laurence Cummings (organ)

Programme:
Roseingrave - Voluntary and Fugue in D minor (1728)
John Stanley - Voluntary in G major
Henry Purcell - Voluntary in D minor, Z718
Frescobaldi - Toccata Quarta (il primo libro)
Froberger - Toccata VI, FbW112
Scheidt - Variations on a Galliard of John Dowland
Sweelinck - Variations on Unter der Linden grûne
Handel - Suite in D minor, HWV428

Laurence Cummings is one of Britain’s most exciting and versatile exponents of historical performance both as conductor and harpsichord player. He has been Artistic Director of the London Handel Festival since 1999 and of the Internationale Händel-Festpiele Göttingen since 2012. He is the William Crotch Professor of Historical Performance at the Royal Academy of Music.

He has conducted productions for English National Opera, Opera North, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Garsington Opera, English Touring Opera, Gothenburg Opera and Opernhaus Zurich. He regularly conducts the English Concert and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

A sweep around Europe in celebration of the organ. Laurence Cummings presents works from England, Italy, the Low Countries and finishes with the grand D minor Suite from Mr Handel, the truly European master of the keyboard.

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
Tickets: £20
£18 (advance saver - available until 7 November)
FREE - Students and Under 16s

2:00pm - Pre-concert talk - Dominic Gwynn
Dominic Gwynn of the organ builders Goetz & Gwynn will talk about his research and the challenges of building the Clothworkers Concert Hall Organ (based on an instrument of ca 1760). Dominic studied Modern History at St John’s
College, Oxford and started organ building with Hendrik ten Bruggencate in Northampton in 1976, before starting the firm in 1980. He is researching and writing a book on organ building in early modern English society and culture.