Concert programme

JS Bach - Prelude in E flat BWV 552 

William Byrd - The Tennthe Pavian: Mr W Peter; The Galliarde to the Tenth Pavian from My Ladye Nevells Booke 

Herbert Howells - Master Tallis's Testament 

William Harris - Flourish for an Occasion 

Judith Weir - Tree of Peace 

Edward Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March no. 5 in C 

JS Bach - Fugue in E flat BWV 552 

Royal connections abound in this programme of works by British composers, framed by Johann Sebastian Bach’s great Prelude and Fugue in E flat BWV 552, which themselves bookend the extraordinary collection Clavier-Übung III. Edward Elgar and Judith Weir held the distinguished office of Master of the King's Music. Also featured is William Harris’s Flourish for an Occasion, performed by Peter Holder at the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. Harris was Organist of Christ Church, Oxford, from 1929 to 1933 and subsequently Organist at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. There he taught the Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II the piano and was later one of the organists at her coronation in 1953.