Wednesday, 14 October, 9.30, p.m.
Church of Santa Luzia
Richard Brasier (organ)
Thomas Attwood (1765-1838)
Dirge
(Performed at Nelson’s funeral in St. Pauls Cathedral on 9 January 1806)
Samuel Wesley (1766-1837)
Air and Gavotte
Georg Friderich Haendel (1685-1759)
Tunes for Clays Musical Clock
A Voluntary or a Flight of Angels
Menuet
Gavotte
Gigue
Robert White (1538-1574)
Fantasia 1
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Fantasia in four parts
Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)
Antífona Clarifica me Pater (3 versets)
John Stanley (1712-1786)
Voluntary em Dó maior Op.5 no.1
Adagio
Andante
Slow
Allegro
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Voluntary in G major
William Byrd (c.1539-1623)
A Fancie
Participants
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Richard Brasier, born in 1988, is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied with David Titterington and Nicolas Kynaston. Aided by the prestigious Nicholas Danby Scholarship, he continued his studies with Johannes Geffert at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Köln. He is in high demand as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist, and is quickly establishing himself as "one of the most dynamic young organists of his generation" (West Deutsche Zeitung). As a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed extensively throughout the UK and Europe in recital series’ and major international festivals. In 2014, he gave the opening concert on the new Klais Organ of St Joseph, Bonn, performing concertos by Poulenc and Rheinberger. Future engagements include recitals and concerto performances in churches and concert halls across the UK, Europe and the USA. He has also appeared on BBC Radio, ITV television, Radio Vatican, and other international stations. In addition to his performing activities, Richard is active as a teacher. He currently teaches individual and group masterclasses for the Royal College of Organists Academy Organ School, and is organ tutor at Sevenoaks School. As an editor, Richard has had an edition of organ music by William Wolstenholme published by Dr.J.Butz Musikverlag in Bonn, as part of their ‘English and American Organ Music’ series. |
Richard BrasierNotes about the Organ
Church of Santa Luzia
According to the register of expenses for the years 1839 to 1841, we find that remunerations were given to the singers and organists, which straight away implies that the Church of Santa Luzia already had a pipe organ, probably of some considerable age, before it was replaced by the arrival of the instrument from the dissolved Convent of São Francisco. This second organ was acquired in 1834. However, it was only moved to the Church of Santa Luzia in 1842, according to the register of Father Joaquim António Português who, on 15 January of that year, noted down in the Accounts Book, an extra sum to pay for it to be transported definitively to the church: “50,000 réis which I gave to the man who arranged for the São Francisco organ to be brought to this parish, since he had received nothing, owing to the decease of Brother António das Dores, who was to have dealt with this.”
In the course of the 20th century, this instrument was subject to frequent maintenance work, paid for by donations from various members of the parish. According to the Accounts Book, on 20 December 1902 the organ was repaired for the sum of 300$00 (réis?), the expense being met by Mr. Augusto Camarrinha, resident at Pará; in 1936 and 1940 320$00 and 150$00 (escudos), respectively were spent, for repairs on two further occasions (Matos 1996: 88). In 1950, at the time of work done to the floor and gallery, and again in 1963, repairs, inadequately carried out, were undertaken by António Gomes Jardim, who was from Ribeiro da Janela.
It has not been possible to identify the maker of the organ. Manuel Valença describes it as a “positive organ made in England with very specific characteristics – just one manual, with seven stops throughout the range and three divided, considered, of its type, one of the best in the Diocese “ and Christopher Kent, of the Music Department of Reading University, England, records it as having been made in England, dating it, following an inscription found on the pipes, to 1815-1820. He adds that it is “one of the famous organs, like certain others of the same make, which are to be found in England.”.
It was restored in 2013 by Dinarte Machado.
Manual (GG, AA, C-f´´´)
Open Diapason 8’
Stop Diapason (GG-b)
Stop Diapason (c’-f’’’)
Bourdon 8’ (GG-b)
Principal 4’
Flute 4’ ( c’-f’’’)
Fifteenth 2’
Cornet (GG-b)
Sesquialtera (c’-f’’’)
Trumpet ( f’-f’’’)