Reid Organ Recital
The McEwan Hall organ is 100 years old this year. The Hall was officially opened on Friday December 3rd, 1897, and the first recital on the massive and for its time, absolutely "state of the art" Hope-Jones organ was given before a capacity audience on the evening of tht day by Dr Albert Lister Peace, who, after having spent 18 years as organist of Glasgow Cathedral, had earlier that year become organist of St George's Hall, Liverpool, in succesion to W.T. Best.
A repeat of Dr Peace's programme would have been a way of celebrating the organ's 100th birthday but precise details of what he played seem no longer available. 'The Scotsman' of the following day reported the event the following day, but although it seems certain that the Bach Prelude & Fugue in D (BWV 532) was performed we can only speculate as to what was offered by way of "representative works by Wesley, Hunter and Gounod" not to mention the recitalist's own "Fantasia on Scottish (sic) Melodies". The next best thing seemed a programme of pieces (with the exception of the Bach) written in the 1890s ... MW
Venue:
Morley Whitehead - organ
Programme
Prelude & Fugue in D, BWV 532 ... J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Choral no. 2 in B minor .... Franck (1822-1890)
Three Chorale-Preludes from op. 122 ... Brahms (1833-1897)
Herzlich thut mich erfreuen (no. 4)
Herzlich thut mich verlangen (no. 9)
O Welt, ich muss dich lassen (no. 11)
Variations on "America" (1891) ... Ives (1874-1954)
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Programme notes by Morley Whitehead
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Forthcoming concerts listed at the end of the programme