Magdalen College Choir

Organ Recital – Richard Pinel

Tickets £10

Richard Pinel is an organist and choral conductor, Professor of Organ at the Royal Academy of Music and Director of Music at St Mary’s, Bourne Street. Until December 2022 he was the Director of Music at Jesus College, Cambridge. Prior to this, Richard was Assistant Director of Music at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and he previously held the organ scholarship at St Albans Cathedral.

Richard is also on the teaching staff at Eton College, and is a regular tutor on Oundle for Organists courses. He regularly collaborates with saxophonist, Christian Forshaw in his Sanctuary project. Solo recitals have taken him across the UK, recently at the Temple Church, the Windsor Festival, St Albans and Durham Cathedrals and further afield Europe and the USA.

His recital programme includes:

Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 548

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Andante con moto (Mondscheinmusik) from Capriccio

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

arr. Richard Pinel (b. 1984)

Organ Sonata No. 2, Op. 60

  1. Improvisation
  2. Invocation
  3. Introduction and Fugue

Max Reger (1873-1916)

from Organ Sonata in C minor:

  1. Canzona
  2. Scherzetto

Percy William Whitlock (1903-1946)

Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

arr. Edwin Lemare (1865-1934)


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