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Organ Recitals

Sunday afternoon organ recitals during Term time

Organ recitals will resume in autumn 2025

Recital dates and times

All Organ Recitals are held in King's College Chapel, are open to the public and free to attend.

Below is the list of recital dates in Michaelmas Term 2025

Sunday 12 October, 2.30 - 3.10pm

Organ Recital by Daniel Hyde, Director of Music, King’s College 

Admission free

Programme:

Ave maris stella  de Grigny
    i - Plein jeu à 5
    ii - Fugue à 5
    iii - Duo
    iv - Dialogue sur les grands Jeux

Two Dialogues  Hurford
    i - Rondo—Scherzo
    iii - Postlude

Trois Danses  Alain
    i - Joies
    ii - Deuils (Danse funèbre pour honorer une mémoire héroïque)
    iii - Luttes

 
Sunday 19 October, 2.30 - 3.10pm  

Organ Recital by Harrison Cole, Assisting Organist, King's College 

Admission free

Programme:

Te Deum, Op.11  Demessieux

Esquisses byzantines  Mulet
    ix - In paradisum

Fantasie Choral No.2 in F-sharp minor  Whitlock

Symphony No.3 in F-sharp minor, Op.28  Vierne
    iv - Adagio
    v - Final

 
Sunday 26 October, 2.30 - 3.10pm   

Organ Recital by Andrew Reid, Director of Music, Little St Mary’s Church, Cambridge

Admission free

Programme:

Chorale Fantasia No.1 ‘O God Our Help’  Parry

Elegiac Romance  Ireland

Sonata in C minor  Whitlock
    iii - Scherzetto

Spring Song  Hollins

Fantasia and Fugue, Op.188  Parry

 
Sunday 2 November, 2.30 - 3.10pm

Organ Recital by Alexander Pott, Trinity Hall and King’s Voices 

Admission free

Programme:

Les Corps glorieux  Messiaen
    i - Subtilité des Corps glorieux

Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080  Bach
    i - Contrapunctus 1

Les Corps glorieux  Messiaen
    ii - Les eaux de la grâce

Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080  Bach
    iii - Contrapunctus 3

Les Corps glorieux  Messiaen
    vi - Joie et clarté des corps glorieux

Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080  Bach
    ii - Contrapunctus 2

Les Corps glorieux  Messiaen
    vii - Le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité

Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080  Bach
    v - Contrapunctus 5

 

Sunday 16 November, 2.30 - 3.10pm

Organ Recital by Daniel Hyde, Director of Music, King’s College 

Admission free

Programme:

Fantasia in F minor, K.608  Mozart

Three Pieces for Organ  Jacques
    i - Pavane
    ii - Alman
    iii - Galliard

Prélude, adagio et choral varié sur le Veni Creator, Op.4  Duruflé

 

Sunday 23 November, 2.30 - 3.10pm 

Organ Recital by Benjamin Sheen, Director of Music, Jesus College 

Admission free

Programme:

Paulus, Op.36  Mendelssohn
    i - Overture  tr. Best

Sonata, Op.65  Parker
    iii - Allegretto

Four Pieces, Op.37  Jongen
    i - Cantabile

Toccata, Chorale and Fugue, Op. 16  Jackson