Summer Organ Festival 2025

Music Organ Recital
  • Venue

    Southwark Cathedral

  • Time

    6:00 PM

  • Price

    from £12 (concessions available)

  • Book Tickets

Four recitalists, four weeks, one amazing summer of music.

Join us every Monday in August for a series of special organ recitals given by world class musicians.  Each recital will be preceeded by welcome drinks and a short Q and A with the evening's performer. 

Monday 4 August | Wayne Marshall

Programme

  • Wayne Marshall (b.1961) - Improvisee Intrada
  • Andrew Ager (b.1962) - Toccata & Fugue, Op. 30 No.1
  • Henri Mulet (1878-1967) - Rosace from Esquisses byzantines
  • Naji Hakim (b.1955) - The Last Judgement
  • Wayne Marshall (b.1961) - Berceuse
  • Healey Willan (1880-1968) - Introduction, Passacaglia & Fugue, Op. 149
  • Wayne Marshall (b.1961) – Improvisee*

*Attendees will have the opportunity to choose your favourite theme to form part of Wayne’s improvisation which will conclude the concert. Submit your themes on the evening and await to see if yours gets selected for inclusion.

 

Monday 11 August | Simon Hogan

Programme

  • Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968) - Te Deum, Op. 11
  • Louis Vierne (1870-1937) - Elégie from 24 Pièces en style libre, Op.31
  • Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) - Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié sur le thème du 'Veni Creator', Op 4
  • J.S.Bach (1685-1750) - Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot, BWV 678
  • Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) - Sonata Eroica, Op. 94

This recital has been kindly sponsored by the RCO Foundation in memory of Ian Keatley (Director of Music, Southwark Cathedral, 2019-2024)

 

Monday 18 August | Andrew Dewar

Programme

  • Edward Elgar (1957-1934) - Introduction and Allegro arr. Andrew Dewar (b.1981)
  • Richard Wagner (1813-1883)- Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music arr. Edwin Lemare (1865-1934)
  • Jean Louis Florentz (1947-2004) - La Croix du Sud, Op. 15
  • Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - La Valse arr. Eugenio Maria Fagiani (b.1972)

 

Monday 25 August | Isabelle Demers

Programme

  • Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) – Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, arr. Rachel Laurin (1961-2023)
  • J.S.Bach (1685-1750)- O Mensch, bewein dein' Sünde groß BWV 622 arr. Max Reger (1873-1916)
  • Max Reger (1873-1916) - Organ Sonata No. 2, Op. 60
  1. Improvisation. Allegro con brio (ma non troppo vivacissimo)
  2. Invocation
  3. Introduction und Fuge