The Organ of St. Bartholomew's, Orford Catherine Ennis

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750):
• 1 Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 09:11
• Nicolas de Grigny (1672 - 1703): Veni Creator (Arr. for Men's Choir & Organ):
• 2 Veni Creator (Arr. for Men's Choir & Organ): Veni Creator en taille à 5 [Plein jeu] 02:14
• 3 Veni Creator (Arr. for Men's Choir & Organ): Fugue à 5 02:03
• 4 Veni Creator (Arr. for Men's Choir & Organ): Duo 03:24
• 5 Veni Creator (Arr. for Men's Choir & Organ): Recit de Cromorne 03:02
• 6 Veni Creator (Arr. for Men's Choir & Organ): Dialogue sur les grands jeux 03:49
• George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759): Organ Concerto in F Major, HWV 295 "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" (Arr. for Organ):
• 7 Organ Concerto in F Major, HWV 295 "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" (Arr. for Organ): I. Larghetto 02:03
• 8 Organ Concerto in F Major, HWV 295 "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" (Arr. for Organ): II. Allegro 03:56
• 9 Organ Concerto in F Major, HWV 295 "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" (Arr. for Organ): Interlude 00:33
• 10 Organ Concerto in F Major, HWV 295 "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" (Arr. for Organ): III. Larghetto 02:39
• 11 Organ Concerto in F Major, HWV 295 "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" (Arr. for Organ): IV. Allegro 03:50
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847):
• 12 Andante in D Major, MWV W 32 05:02
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897):
• 13 Prelude & Fugue in G Minor, WoO 10 07:52
• Sir Charles Hubert Parry (1848 - 1918): Chorale Preludes, Set 2 (Excerpts):
• 14 Chorale Preludes, Set 2 (Excerpts): No. 9, Martyrdom 03:22
• 15 Chorale Preludes, Set 2 (Excerpts): No. 14, Hanover 04:51
• 16 Chorale Preludes, Set 2 (Excerpts): No. 12, Eventide 03:43
• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976):
• 17 Prelude & Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria 05:26
• Dan Locklair (b. 1949):
• 18 Rubrics: IV. The Peace May Be Exchanged 03:02
• Max Reger (1873 - 1916):
• 19 12 Organ Pieces, Op. 59, Book 1: No. 5, Toccata - No. 6, Fuge (Excerpts) 08:36
• Total Runtime 01:18:38

Info for The Organ of St. Bartholomew's, Orford

Catherine Ennis is a leading concert organist.. The organ in St.Bartholomew's Church, a Peter Collins instrument, was originally sited in the Turner Sims Hall in Southampton and moved to Orford to the church where Benjamin Britten's Noye Fludde was given its first performance. This is the first recording of this fine instrument.

Catherine Ennis, organ of St. Bartholomew's Orford

Catherine Ennis
The English organist, Catherine Ennis, has established an international organ recital career, with tours taking her throughout Europe and the USA, and concerts in major UK venues including the Proms and the Royal Festival Hall series. At a recent engagement she astonished a capacity audience at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with her version of J.S. Bach's Musical Offering (BWV 1079) on the small Flentrop organ there.

Catherine Ennis is Organist and Director of Music at the church of St. Lawrence Jewry, the church of the Corporation of London, where her series of Tuesday lunchtime recitals continue a century- long tradition of organ music as midday respite for all, whether City workers, tourists, or afficionados. The series has been enhanced by a fine Klais organ, installed in 2001.

Recordings have included a Guilmant disc for EMI at St. Marylebone Parish Church, London, a disc of English Romantic organ music for IFO, from Muenster Cathedral in Germany, and J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations (BWV 988) for Mollterz at St. Lawrence Jewry (on the 5- stop Chapel organ) . Future releases include “Homage to Schweitzer” from St. Lawrence, and the Reubke Sonata from St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh. She has broadcast frequently for the BBC and RTE radio.

Catherine Ennis teaches at Trinity College of Music, London. Oundle International Festival, Edinburgh Organ Academy and Eton Summer School have been among recent teaching and performing engagements. Her diary in the next year (2010) includes appearances in London, Ireland, Luxembourg, Germany, and the USA, inter alia.

Uniquely, Catherine Ennis has been has been the catalyst behind three major instruments in London, those at St. Marylebone (Rieger) in 1987 and at St. Lawrence in 2001, and the William Drake organ for Trinity College of Music, Greenwich, installed in 2003. She is currently involved in other organ advisory projects.

Over a decade ago, Catherine Ennis founded the London Organ Concerts Guide, which seeks to persuade a wider audience that the organ can be of more than minority interest. She is Past President of the Incorporated Association of Organists (term 2005-2007), a Trustee of the Nicholas Danby Trust for student organists, former council member of the Royal College of Organists, and writes for various musical journals.

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