Programme (subject to revision)
Spire Live in York Minster
20th January 2007
13.00-17.15 & 18.15-21.50
Personnel:
Main Organ: Charles Matthews & Marcus Davidson
Chamber Organ: Charles Matthews
Piano: Marcus Davidson
Minster Bells: York Minster Society of Change Ringers
Installation: Leif Inge
Soloists:
Instruments:
Fennesz
Philip Jeck
BJNilsen
Voices:
John Beaumont
Robert Millner
Amy Moore
Pre-concert
The Crypt:
13.00-16.00 Leif Inge - Installation: Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor
The West Tower [sound and video relay into nave]:
16.00-17.15 and 18.15-19.00 York Minster Society of Change Ringers: performing examples of "methods" - some of the earliest of bell ringing patterns, including Grandsire and Stedman Caters.
Spire Live part one:
19.00 - 19.50
Charles Matthews, Chamber Organ: Anon (from the Buxheim Organbook, c.1460):
Annabasanna (1:20)
Marcus Davidson, Main Organ & 3 x soloists: The Grey Book [1st performance]
The Chapterhouse [sound relay into nave]:
Fennesz [solo] (20:00)
Charles Matthews, Main Organ & Robert Millner, Tenor: Om Mani (Marcus Davidson)
(7:00)
Charles Matthews, Main Organ: Maurice Duruflé: Toccata (8:50)
Interval: Plainchant from the Choir Screen by John Beaumont
Spire Live part two:
20.00-20.50
Charles Matthews, Main Organ: Giacinto Scelsi: In Nomine Lucis (11:30)
The Nave:
Philip Jeck [solo] (25:00)
Marcus Davidson, Main Organ & Tape: The Passing [1st performance]
Charles Matthews, Main Organ, Marcus Davidson, Grand Piano & Robert Millner,
Tenor: Focus: La Cathédrale de Strasbourg [Thijs van Leer] arr. Marcus
Davidson (6:45)
Interval: Plainchant from the Choir Screen by John Beaumont
Spire Live part three:
2100-2150
Marcus Davidson, Main Organ: Gorécki: Kantata for Organ op. 26 (15:30)
The Nave:
BJNilsen [solo] (25:00)
Charles Matthews, Main Organ: Charles Spinks: 3 Arabesques (4:15)
Charles Mathews, Main Organ: Arvo Pärt: Pari Intervallo (5:00)
3 x Soloists: Philippe de Vitry: Adesto-Firmissime-Alleluia (from the Roman
de Fauvel, c.1315) (2:50)
this is repeated by:
Charles Matthews, Chamber Organ: Philippe de Vitry: Adesto-Firmissime-Alleluia
(keyboard version from the Robertsbridge Codex, c.1360) (2:50)