DARIUS BATTIWALLA
Concerts 2024-5
Thursday 1 August
Blackburn Cathedral
Organ
James Wood:
Tempestas in Memoriam World premiere
Composed to commemorate the Great Storm of August 1, 1674, for four organs played simultaneously across Europe.
With Karolina Juodelyte (Epiphanien-Kirche Berlin), Dominik Susteck (Antonius Kirche Düsseldorf), and Jan Hage (Domkerk Utrecht)
Concert live streamed here:
Monday 16 September, 1.15pm
Leeds, St Anne’s Cathedral
Organ
Leeds Town Hall recital series
Duruflé: Suite op 5
Bach: Prelude & Fugue in D minor BWV539
Marianne Martinez: Allegro Brillante
Bliss: Things to Come - The Rout Trot
Whitlock: Carol (Four Extemporisations)
James Mitchell: Festival Toccata
Saturday 21 September, 7.30pm
St Alban's Cathedral
Organ
International Organ Festival concert
Duruflé: Suite op 5
Nadia Boulanger: Pièce sur des aires populaires Flamands
Bach/ Busoni: Chaconne arr D Battiwalla
Whitlock: Four Extemporisations
Dupré: Prelude & Fugue in G minor
Monday 14 October, 1.15pm
Leeds, St Anne’s Cathedral
Organ
with Sarah Brandwood-Spencer, violin
Leeds Town Hall recital series
Florence Price: Toccato (Suite no 1)
Bach: Violin & Keyboard sonata no 4
Olsen: Romance
Coleridge-Taylor: Two Pieces
Franck: Prelude, Fugue & Variation
Franck: Final from Violin Sonata
Thursday 24 October, 7.30pm
Manchester, RNCM
Silent Film Improvisation - Organ
The Immigrant (Chaplin 1927)
with RNCM students
Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton 1927)
Sunday 27 October, 7.30pm
Hebden Bridge, Wainsgate Chapel
Silent Film Improvisation - Organ
Shorts by Keaton and Chaplin
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Thursday 31 October, 7.30pm
Leeds, Howard Assembly Rooms
Silent Film Improvisation - Organ
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Friday, 1 November and
Saturday 2 November, 7pm
Heptonstall Church
Silent Film Improvisation - Organ
Helen of Four Gates (UK 1922)
Monday 11 November, 1.15pm
Leeds, St Anne’s Cathedral
Organ
Leeds Town Hall recital series
Bach: Sinfonia to Cantata 29
Maria Walpurgis: Overture to Talestri
Thalben-Ball: Elegy
Mendelssohn: Scherzo (Midsummer Nights' Dream)
Strauss: The Blue Danube
Elgar: Nimrod
Elgar: Pomp & Circumstance no 4
Friday 15 November, 7pm
Sheffield City Hall
Organ
Sheffield International Concert Season
Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus
Hallé Orchestra
Delyana Lazarova, conductor
Lili Boulanger: Psalm 130
Saint-Saëns: Fantaisie in E flat
Saint-Saëns: Symphon no 3 "organ"
Monday 9 December, 1.15pm
Leeds, St Anne’s Cathedral
Organ
Leeds Town Hall recital series
To include
Denis Bédard: Variations on In Dulci Jubilo
Elizabeth Mounsey: An Old Christmas Carol
Reger: Choralfantasie Wachet auf
plus Christmas requests
Saturday, 14 December, 2.30pm
Sheffield, City Hall
Conducting
Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus
Black Dyke Band
Christmas concert
Saturday, 14 December, 2.30pm
Sheffield, City Hall
Conducting
Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus
Black Dyke Band
Christmas concert
Wednesday 18 December, 1pm
Bradford Cathedral
Organ
Buxtehude: Prelude & Fugue in F# minor
Bach: Wachet auf, ruf uns die Stimme
Elizabeth Mounsey: An Old Christmas Carol
William Lloyd Webber: 3 Christmas carols
Demessieux: Adeste Fideles
Hollins: Christmas Cradle Song
Denis Bédard: Variations on In Dulci Jubilo
Saturday 18 January 2025, 7.30pm
Macclesfield, Kings School
and
Sunday 19 January
Chester, Storyhouse
Harpsichord solo
Northern Chamber Orchestra
To include:
Bach: Harpsichord concerto in D minor
Saturday 25 January, 7.30pm
London, St Mary-at-Finchley
Silent Film Improvisation - Organ
Blackmail (Hitchcock 1929)