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From 12.30pm to 1.15 on the first Friday of every month, in St Michael & All Angels Church, we present Friday Lunchtime Organ Music.
On Friday July 3rd the organist is Dr Anthony Gritten, Head of Undergraduate Programmes, Royal Academy of Music
All welcome, free entry, collection at the end for music at St Michael’s.
The 2026 season of Organ Recitals is kindly sponsored by Home Instead and Ballet4Life.
See this year’s Recitals programme.
Programme
Louis Couperin (c. 1626-1661)
Grand Livre d’Orgue: Prélude OL 46 (1654)
Louis Couperin
Fugue OL 29 (1655)
Louis Couperin
A Solis Ortus Cardine OL 41-45 (1656-59)
I En Taille
II En Haulte Contre
III En Trio
IV En Triple, à la Haulte Contre
V En Basse
Rolande Falcinelli (1920-2006)
Petit Livre de Prières op 24 (1946): Au Saint-Esprit
Daniel Roth (born 1942)
Livre d’orgue pour le Magnificat (2007): Et Exsultavit
Thierry Pallesco (born 1956)
Perpetuum Mobile (2023)
Pierre Du Mage (1674-1751)
Suite du premier ton (1708)
I Plein jeu
II Fugue
III Trio
IV Tierce en taille
V Basse de trompette
VI Récit
VII Duo
VIII Grand jeu
Biography
Anthony Gritten is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, and studied with Harry Gabb, David Sanger, and Anne Page. He gave the first complete performance of Daniel Roth’s magnum opus, Livre d’Orgue pour le Magnificat, and has performed four times in St. Sulpice, Paris, including a recital for Roth’s 70th birthday. Daniel Roth, Thierry Pallesco, Laurence Caldecote, and David Loxley-Blount have written works for him, and he has premiered various works, including Richard Francis’ four-movement symphony on themes by Lefébure-Wély, four of Michael Whytock’s Six Meditations on Gregorian Chant Themes, and Huw Morgan’s Ave Rosa Sine Spinis. Projects have included anniversary performances of the complete works of Buxtehude (a 6½ hour recital), Homilius (2½ hours), Clérambault, Tunder, Kneller, Alphonse Schmitt, Brahms, and Mendelssohn, and an ongoing series resurrecting forgotten French music from the early 20th century.
Anthony was an organ scholar and research student at Cambridge University, writing a doctorate on Stravinsky. He has worked at the University of East Anglia, the Royal Northern College of Music, and Middlesex University, and is currently Head of Undergraduate Programmes at the Royal Academy of Music. His publications include books on Music and Gesture, essays on Balakirev, Cage, Debussy, Delius, Goehr, Holloway, Roth, and Stravinsky, and numerous articles on issues in Performance Studies.
