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Organ recital: Peter Holder

Part of the Christ Church: Five Centuries of Music - 2025

Add to my Calendar 30-10-2025 20:00 30-10-2025 22:00 36 Organ recital: Peter Holder From African and English folk melodies to an original theme of J. S. Bach – even student drinking songs – this inaugural recital by Peter Holder, Organist of Christ Church, takes the works of four Western composers woven around earlier themes, inspired by the first Organist to be appointed to Cardinal College by Wolsey, John Taverner, and his seminal Mass setting based on the 16C song Western Wynde. This concert is presented as part of the Christ Church 500th Anniversary Music Festival. Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford DD/MM/YYYY

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Christ Church Cathedral
St Aldate's
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 1DP
England

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 662
Giles Swayne – Riff-Raff
Johannes Brahms – Academic Festival Overture, Op.80

Performers

Peter Holder – organ

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Programme Note

From African and English folk melodies to an original theme of J. S. Bach – even student drinking songs – this inaugural recital by Peter Holder, Organist of Christ Church, takes the works of four Western composers woven around earlier themes, inspired by the first Organist to be appointed to Cardinal College by Wolsey, John Taverner, and his seminal Mass setting based on the 16C song Western Wynde.

This concert is presented as part of the Christ Church 500th Anniversary Music Festival.

Peter Holder

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