The Kenneth Leighton Memorial Concert

Date:

Sunday, April 30, 1989

Time:

7.30 pm

Season/No:

1988-1989

Venue:

Reid Concert Hall with Ahrend organ

Participant(s):

The Edinburgh Quartet
Daphne Godson - violin
John Turner - recorder
Peter Wallfisch - piano
Leon Coates - organ
John Kitchen - harpsichord

Edinburgh University Chamber Choir - director: Michael Turnbull
String Orchestra of past and present Music Faculty students led by the Edinburgh Quartet
Edward Harper - conductor

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s):

Programme of music by Kenneth Leighton

God's Grandeur - motet for unaccompanied choir
words by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Edinburgh University Chamber Choir - Director: Michael Turnbull

Chorale, Es is genug (harmonisation by J.S. Bach)

Fantasy on a Chorale (Es is genug), opus 80 for violin and organ

Daphne Godson -violin
Leon Coates - organ

Quintet for pianoforte and strings, opus 34
Allegro con moto
Adagio sostenuto
Scherzo - Prestissimo
Passacaglia-Adagio-Presto

The Edinburgh Quartet
Miles Baster - violin
Peter Markham - violin
Michael Beeston - viola
Mark Bailey - violoncello
with
Colin Kingsley - piano

INTERVAL

Sonata, opus 64 (1972)
Lento e Chiaro - più mosso
Chorale with Contrasts
Toccata and Chorale

Peter Wallfisch - piano

Concerto for Recorder, Harpsichord and Strings, opus 88
Largo Sostenuto-Allegro molto-Lento
Scherzo-Presto e precipitoso
Elegy-Adagio e sostenuto

John Turner - recorder
John Kitchen - harpsichord
Edward Harper - conductor

String orchestra of past and present Music Faculty students led by the Edinburgh Quartet

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Composer(s):

Leighton, Kenneth 1929-1988

Performer(s):

Instrument / Organ Specification:

Ahrend organ - Reid Concert Hall

Performance Type:

Special

Programme:

12-page white A4 folded with a glossy front cover featuring the score of 'God's grandeur'

Programme Notes:

Programme notes for the first item by Edward Harper, otherwise by the composer.

Ticket and/or Programme Price(s):

Admission free

Promoter:

Music at The University of Edinburgh

Printer(s):

Faculty of Music, University of Edinburgh

Notes:

Photograph of Kenneth Leighton 1929-1988.
Biography of Kenneth Leighton by Edward Harper.
Inside the programme was a Donation form for the Kenneth Leighton Memorial Scholarship.
In addition to being a composer, Kenneth Leighton was a distinguished teacher and in recognition of this it is proposed to set up a fund which will provide financial assistance to students in the Faculty of Music at the University of Edinburgh who wish to engage in further study. The award, to be known as 'The Kenneth Leighton Memorial Scholarship' will be made annually.