Richard Hills (London)
Roger Quilter: A Children’s Overture
Quentin Maclean: Babbling
Frederic Curzon: Suite ‘In Malaga’
John Ireland: Villanella from ‘Miniature Suite’
Normal Cocker: Tuba Tune
Giacomo Meyerbeer: Coronation March
Sir William Harris: A Fancy
Percy Whitlock: Plymouth Suite
Moritz Moszkowski: Spanish Dance #3
Sir Herbert Brewer: March Héroïque
Richard Hills, Patron of the Binns Organ Trust, makes a welcome return for our Popular Recital. He starts with what the Binns organ could be said to have been built for: a transcription, in this case of Roger Quilter’s evergreen Children’s Overture. Renowned cinema organists Quentin Maclean and Frederic Curzon make an appearance as do two highly successful “crossover” artists, equally at home in the cinema or the cathedral: Percy Whitlock and Norman Cocker. Two rousing marches complete the picture: Meyerbeer’s swaggering Coronation March from Le Prophete, and Herbert Brewer’s Marche Heroique, heard at the wedding of the Earl and Countess of Wessex.