Leeds International Concert Season – Free Lunchtime Organ concert – HMD 2025

Activity information

Activity type: Public activity

Organisation name: Leeds International Concert Season

Website: https://www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk/whatson-event/darius-battiwalla-4/?venue=4092//

Address:
Leeds Cathedral
Cathedral Chambers
Great George Street
West Yorkshire
LS2 8BE
United Kingdom

Mon 27 January 2025, 1.15pm
Leeds Cathedral, Cathedral Chambers, Great George Street, Leeds, LS2 8BE

Darius Battiwalla
Leeds City Organist

Holocaust Memorial Day

Felix Mendelssohn - Sonata No 1 in F minor
Fela Sowande - Go Down, Moses
Gerald Finzi arr Robert Gower - Eclogue
Ethel Smyth - Chorale Prelude & Fugue O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid
Percy Whitlock – Sonata in C minor: Grave – Allegro

This concert is part of the Leeds Lunchtime Organ Music series and will last approx 50 mins.

The first movement of Percy Whitlock’s sonata makes a powerful and expressive finale to this concert presenting music of reflection and resistance to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. Also featured is Fela Sowande’s impassioned setting of Go Down, Moses and Gerald Finzi’s beautiful Eclogue, originally written for piano and strings.

Free admission, no booking required. For more information please visit: leedsconcertseason.co.uk or call 0113 378 6600.

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