Following acclaimed live broadcasts on BBC1 and BBC Radio 3, John Hosking (Organist in Residence at Blackburn Cathedral) performs a wide variety of works to demonstrate the full resources of Sinfonia Smith Square’s Klais Organ.
Beginning with a Carillon based on the Westminster Chimes by Belgian composer Jean-Marie Plum, the programme encompasses sets of variations by J. S. Bach (Passcagalia), André Fleury (Variations sur un Noël Bourguignon) and Piet Post (Partite diverse sopra “De lofzang van Maria”). A dramatic tone poem based on the Sixty-Fifth Psalm by British composer, Alec Rowley contrasts with Hosking’s own minimalist “Moto perpetuo” and we remain in the Christmas season with a Noel setting by Charles Quef.