Organ Recitals
JS Bach Organ Music for Lent and Passiontide 2021
Welcome to JS Bach: Organ music for Lent and Passiontide – played by Richard, our Director of Music, on the East Organ at St Mildred’s. Click on each piece for a short preview, then to hear the complete works – Spotify is a free ‘sign up’
“It is my intention that these recordings will help people continue to feel connected, although we are unable to meet at St Mildred’s, and help to provide something of the atmosphere of Holy Week and Easter.”
Richard Mander – Director of Music
Bach for Holy Week 2020
Welcome to Bach for Holy Week 2020, a lockdown project to bring some appropriate musical context to Holy Week, through the Chorale Preludes and Partitas of Johann Sebastian Bach. Each piece has particular relevance to Holy Week and Easter, and a short description will be given alongside the link. A new chorale will become available each day – so please return to the website for a daily dose!
It is my intention that these recordings will help people continue to feel connected, although we are unable to meet at St Mildred’s, and help to provide something of the atmosphere of Holy Week and Easter. Everything has been recorded and edited at my home over the past two weeks.
All the organ recordings are either from Bach’s epic Chorale Partita, Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig BWV 768, or from the Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book) in which Bach produced an incredibly diverse series of 46 chorales covering the seasons of the church’s year.
Richard Mander – Director of Music
The Recitals
Tap on the thumbnails to read about and listen to each individual recital.
Richard Mander, our Director of Music’s, new recordings
Over the past few months, Richard has embarked on recording JS Bach’s Orgelbüchlein on our beautiful East Organ. The Orgelbüchlein is a collection of 46 Chorale Preludes, mostly short but often very challenging. The chorales are ordered by the Christian year, and my...
Recitals
Recitals Another piece of good news! Our wonderful recital series will be restarting from Sunday 10 October, after 3.30 pm Evensong. Richard Mander will be giving the first recital of the new series, with works by Bach and Albinoni, and a mesmerising piece for...
organ recitals
Welcome to JS Bach: Organ music for Lent and Passiontide – played by Richard, our Director of Music, on the East Organ at St Mildred’s. Click on each piece for a short preview, then to hear the complete works - Spotify is a free sign up...
Bach for Holy Week #7 – Easter Sunday
Christ is erstanden BWV 627 https://soundcloud.com/user-186781211/christ-ist-erstanden-bwv-627 This is a larger scale work from the Orgelbüchlein, in three verses as set out below. You can imagine after the austere season of Lent, Bach stunning the congregation with...
St Mildred’s Virtual Choir – An Easter Sunday debut!
Lead me, Lord – Samuel Sebastian Wesley St Mildred’s Virtual Choir During the lockdown, St Mildred’s Choir has continued to keep busy and we have produced a recording of Samuel Sebastian Wesley’s 'Lead me, Lord' which will premiere on our website from Easter Sunday...
Bach for Holy Week #6 – Holy Saturday
Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig, BWV 768 – Chorale and Partita 10 https://soundcloud.com/user-186781211/sei-gegruset-jesu-gutig-bwv-768-chorale-and-partita-x Following on from Monday’s partitas, today we have the sensational Partita X, written in 5 parts. The Partita – very...
Bach for Holy Week #5 – Good Friday
Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig, BWV 768 – Chorale and Partita I https://soundcloud.com/user-186781211/sei-gegruset-jesu-gutig-bwv-768-chorale-and-partita-i Partita I is thought to represent the death of Christ. Bach (a keen and accomplished mathematician) is known to have...
Bach for Holy Week #4 – Maundy Thursday
O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß BWV 622 https://soundcloud.com/user-186781211/o-mensch-bewein-dein-sunde-gros-bwv-622 Another of the extraordinarily beautiful chorales from the Orgelbüchlein, Bach’s genius is revealed here in the incredibly expressive solo upper...
Bach for Holy Week #3
Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig, BWV 768 – Chorale and Partitas VIII and IX https://soundcloud.com/user-186781211/sei-gegruset-jesu-gutig-bwv-768-chorale-and-partitas-viii-and-ix Partita VIII is in the unusual time signature of 24/16 (24 semiquavers in each bar, in four...
Bach for Holy Week #2
Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 639 https://soundcloud.com/user-186781211/ich-ruf-zu-dir-final My organ tutor once suggested that almost every composer that ever lived would be happy with their output if this were the only piece they’d ever composed. The stunning...
Bach for Holy Week #1
Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig, BWV 768 – Chorale and Partitas VI and VII https://soundcloud.com/user-186781211/sei-gegrusset-6-and-7-final The Chorale Partita BWV 768 is a tour de force in the organ repertoire, where Bach explores the expressive possibilities in a set of...
The Organ
The organ used for all these recordings is a house organ, built in 1977 by the world-renowned Dutch builder Flentrop. It was deliberately designed to imitate the historic early 18th Century organs found in the Netherlands – including its voicing and rather noisy action that you may hear rattling during the recordings! This also makes it highly suitable for the music of JS Bach.
This is the only Flentrop house organ among around a dozen Flentrop organs in total known to be in the UK.
The instrument consists of 3 manuals (unusual for a house organ which would typically have only two). Manual III can be physically removed and the instrument used as a two-manual. The action is mechanical throughout, with the only electric component being the blower that supplies wind to the instrument.
| Manual I | Manual II | Manual III | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holpup | 8 | Gedekt | 8 | Regaal | 8 |
| Prestant | 8 | Fluit | 4 | ||
| Prestant | 4 | Nasard | 2 2/3 | ||
| Super Octav | 2 | Terts | 1 3/5 | ||
| Pedal | Couplers | ||||
| Bourdon | 8 | P + I, P + II | Tremulant | ||
| Quintadeen | 4 | I + II, I + III |
Calendar of Events
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Midweek Holy Communion
Midweek Holy Communion
Midweek Holy Communion: Join us for a short, said service of Holy Communion in the Lady Chapel. Refreshments after! This service may be subject to change of format during the […]
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Friday Morning Holy Communion
Friday Morning Holy Communion
Join Father Andrew in the Lady Chapel for a service of Holy Communion at 10.30am each Friday Morning. Refreshments will be available
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Christmas Market
Christmas Market
Save the Date! Our Market is here again! All the stalls have been allocated so there will be plenty to look at and buy, as well as refreshments, entertainment […]
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Dawn (8 am) Holy Communion
Dawn (8 am) Holy Communion
Join us in the Lady Chapel for our early service of Holy Communion ( said). This service may be subject to change of format during the Interregnum - dependent […]
Parish Communion
Parish Communion
join us each Sunday for Parish Communion. Refreshments afterwards This service will usually be live streamed
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Midweek Holy Communion
Midweek Holy Communion
Midweek Holy Communion: Join us for a short, said service of Holy Communion in the Lady Chapel. Refreshments after! This service may be subject to change of format during the […]
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Friday Morning Holy Communion
Friday Morning Holy Communion
Join Father Andrew in the Lady Chapel for a service of Holy Communion at 10.30am each Friday Morning. Refreshments will be available
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Dawn (8 am) Holy Communion
Dawn (8 am) Holy Communion
Join us in the Lady Chapel for our early service of Holy Communion ( said). This service may be subject to change of format during the Interregnum - dependent […]
Christingle Service
Christingle Service
join us for our Christingle Service Refreshments afterwards This service will be live streamed
Choral Evensong
Choral Evensong
join us on the 2nd Sunday of each month at 3.30pm for Choral Evensong led by our choir. The service is followed by light refreshments and often by a recital […]
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Midweek Holy Communion
Midweek Holy Communion
Midweek Holy Communion: Join us for a short, said service of Holy Communion in the Lady Chapel. Refreshments after! This service may be subject to change of format during the […]
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Women’s Group
Women’s Group
The Women's group meets , generally, on the 3rd Thursday of each month - sometimes in St Mildred's Centre - sometimes in other venues. Please see their programme for finer […]
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Friday Morning Holy Communion
Friday Morning Holy Communion
Join Father Andrew in the Lady Chapel for a service of Holy Communion at 10.30am each Friday Morning. Refreshments will be available
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Dawn (8 am) Holy Communion
Dawn (8 am) Holy Communion
Join us in the Lady Chapel for our early service of Holy Communion ( said). This service may be subject to change of format during the Interregnum - dependent […]
Parish Communion
Parish Communion
join us each Sunday for Parish Communion. Refreshments afterwards This service will usually be live streamed
Festival of Nine lessons and Carols
Festival of Nine lessons and Carols
join us for our Festival of nine lessons and carols. followed by mince pies and mulled wine!
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Midweek Holy Communion
Midweek Holy Communion
Midweek Holy Communion: Join us for a short, said service of Holy Communion in the Lady Chapel. Refreshments after! This service may be subject to change of format during the […]
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Friday Morning Holy Communion
Friday Morning Holy Communion
Join Father Andrew in the Lady Chapel for a service of Holy Communion at 10.30am each Friday Morning. Refreshments will be available
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Dawn (8 am) Holy Communion
Dawn (8 am) Holy Communion
Join us in the Lady Chapel for our early service of Holy Communion ( said). This service may be subject to change of format during the Interregnum - dependent […]
Parish Communion
Parish Communion
join us each Sunday for Parish Communion. Refreshments afterwards This service will usually be live streamed
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Christmas Morning Dawn Service
Christmas Morning Dawn Service
join us for our 8 O'clock service of Holy Communion on Christmas Morning
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Dawn (8 am) Holy Communion
Dawn (8 am) Holy Communion
Join us in the Lady Chapel for our early service of Holy Communion ( said). This service may be subject to change of format during the Interregnum - dependent […]
Parish Communion
Parish Communion
join us each Sunday for Parish Communion. Refreshments afterwards This service will usually be live streamed
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