The Organ Scholars of Leeds Cathedral play the Klais organ, in the third recital of the Festival.
Anthony Beckwith:
00:37 Concerto del Signor Meck - Johann Walther
03:55 Postlude on a Kyrie - Anthony Beckwith
06:00 Marche de Procession - Alexandre Guilmant
Christopher Davis:
09:30 'The Harmonious Blacksmith' (Suite in E, HWV 430) - G. F. Handel
13:04 Prelude & Fugue in A minor, BWV 559 - J. S. Bach
Christopher Hughes:
16:43 Alleluyas - Simon Preston
22:59 Prelude in E minor, BWV 548i - J. S. Bach
Anthony Beckwith has been part of the Diocese of Leeds Schools Singing Programme since 2008 when he joined the Bradford Catholic Youth Choir. Now in his second year studying music at the University of Huddersfield, he studies the organ and also teaches the accordion for children from across the Diocesan music programmes.
Christopher Davis is in his second year of reading Music at the University of Leeds. He started learning with John Marsden at St Mary’s Church, Tickhill, and went on to be deputy organist at St Luke’s Church, Rossington before becoming an Organ Scholar at Leeds Cathedral in 2019. As well as the organ, Chris also plays violin and piano.
Christopher Hughes, from Nantwich, Cheshire, is a first-year Music student at the University of Leeds and Organ Scholar at Leeds Cathedral. He first began studying the Organ at Chetham's School of Music with Christopher Stokes (Manchester Cathedral), where he also studied the piano with John Gough. In the last year, Chris has also had the pleasure of conducting Leeds University Union Music Society's Chamber Choir.
Leeds Cathedral’s organ was manufactured by one of the most eminent English organ builders, Norman and Beard, and was built specifically for the Cathedral in 1904. Following a period of around thirty years’ silence, Johannes Klais Orgelbau of Bonn were chosen to reconstruct and enlarge the instrument to serve the requirements of the restored Cathedral and new position of the choir. The organ was built in the Klais workshops, and transported to the Cathedral in July 2009 to complete the work in situ over a six-month period.
The project was supervised by Benjamin Saunders and the late David Sanger. The tonal style is English Edwardian, and so all the historic 1904 pipework has been carefully restored on its original chests, with new pipework matching the original materials and construction methods. The organ now has seven divisions, controlled from a four-manual console with 78 stops, and features a unique new system of allocating manual departments to keyboards (specification: www.dioceseofl....
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