Thu Aug 1 12:00
Tom Annand and the Casavant Organ: Celebrating Ottawa Composers
Thomas Annand is pulling out all the stops for this Chamberfest organ recital! A performer, conductor, and composer, Annand is the Music Director of Ottawa’s St. Andrew’s Church. He has performed at Carnegie Hall with Les Violons du Roy and has been featured at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Carmel Bach Festival, the International Congress of Organists, and has performed at Chamberfest since its inception.
For this performance, Annand will play the extraordinary 1964 Casavant neo-baroque organ of Dominion-Chalmers—Ottawa’s largest wind instrument—recently restored and re-voiced. His programme pays tribute to the organist-composer William France who oversaw the installation of the organ, as well as other Ottawa composers past and present. The programme concludes with Bach’s mighty Passacaglia which showcases the myriad sonic possibilities of this massive instrument. For organ fans and local history buffs, it doesn’t get any better than this!
- Thomas Annandorgan
Programme
John Stanley (1712 – 1786)
Overture to “The Power of Music”
William France (1912 – 1985)
Second Suite for Organ
Elegiac Prelude
Minuet
Plaintive Air
Finale
Jeanne Landry (1922 – 2011)
Hesychia
Frederick Karam (1926 – 1978)
Gigue
Gilles Maurice Leclerc (b. 1960)
Prelude on “Slane”
G. M. Leclerc
Epilogue
Rachel Laurin (1961 – 2023)
Petite Suite sur un Motet de Gerald Bales
Fantaisie “Let the Earth Celebrate the Lord…”
Cantabile “Mountains and Hills…”
Toccatina “Praise Him…”
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582
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