Lunchtime Live

Programmes from the 2004 to 2006 series are available from the Music Department on request.

2005

9th June
Robert Quinney
Sub-Organist, Westminster Abbey

16th June
Henry Fairs
The Complete Organ Works of Maurice Duruflé

23rd June
Malcolm Archer
Organist and Director of Music, St Paul’s Cathedral

30th June
Sarah Reynolds
Soprano, Oxford

7th July
Edward Whiting
Director of Music, All Saints’ Church, Northampton

14th July
The Pioro Quartet
London

21st July
Martin Baker
Master of Music, Westminster Cathedral

8th June
David Crown
Baritone, Music by Brahms, Gorecki and Vaughan-Williams

15th June
The Pioro Quartet
Music by Shostakovich and Mozart

22nd June
Magid El-Bushra
Counter-Tenor, French Song Throughout the Ages

29th June
Gerard Brooks
Associate Organist, All Souls, Langham Place

6th July
Matthew Martin
Assistant Master of Music, Westminster Cathedral

13th July
Richard Pinel
St Alban's Abbey

20th July
Michael Duffy
Tenor

27th July
Stephen Meakins
Piano

2006

The 2007 series was a great success and featured eight organ recitals each programming a work by, or arrangement of a work by Sir Edward Elgar, marking the 150th anniversary of his birth. The programmes can be viewed online and the series attracted sponsorship from Michael Jones, jeweller, Kenneth Tickell & Co., organ builders, and W. H. Bonham's shoe shop of St Giles Street. The recital given by Mark Pescott in aid of the organ appeal at St Mary's Church, Wellingborough attracted a record lunchtime audience of 130, and the average attendance at recitals was over 60.

The 2008 programme will begin on Thursday 5 June at 1:10pm, continuing on subsequent Thursdays throughout June and July. The series will include organ, vocal and chamber recitals, all featuring music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, in the year of the 50th anniversary of his death.

‘Nowhere in Europe or indeed the world have I played in a building that has better acoustics. They are absolutely perfect!’

Every year in June and July, All Saints presents Lunchtime Live – a series of seven recitals at 1.10pm every Thursday. The series has become renowned in Northamptonshire and beyond for attracting musicians of the highest calibre to perform on either the Walker Gallery Organ or the Hill & Son and Norman & Beard Chancel Organ, in the light acoustic which so captivated Sir Yehudi Menhuin: