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
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
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)