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Rewarding recital of 20th century British organ music Friday at St Paul’s

By Lindis Taylor, July 15, 2011
Great Music 2011: Music by William Mathias, Britten, MacMillan, Lennox
Berkeley, Kenneth Leighton and Howells

Richard Apperley (organ)

Cathedral of St Paul

Friday 15 July, 12.45pm

A programme of entirely British organ music comes as a bit of a surprise for it is normal to think of the repertoire as dominated by Germany and France.

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Friday, 15 July 2011

The closest approach to the live performance

(Review of CD - Johann Kuhnau's Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien)

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Thursday, 21 April 2011

Haydn’s Last Words from organist Richard Apperley at St Paul’s

Great Music 2011: Organ recital series

Haydn’s Seven last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross (Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze)

Richard Apperley (Assistant organist, Cathedral of St Paul)

Cathedral of St Paul

Friday 15 April 12.45

The great days of a flourishing market for transcriptions of symphonies and opera chunks for the organ, or the piano, might have passed, but there remains a lingering suspicion of the practice, and an almost automatic disposition to find them improper and tasteless.

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Friday, 15 April 2011

In Memoriam: organ restorers remembered at St Peter’s

Organ recital to remember three members of the South Island Organ Company killed in Christchurch on 22 February.

Paul Rosoman, Dianne Halliday, Richard Apperley, Michael Fulcher

St Peter’s Church, Willis Street

Friday 4 March 5.30pm

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Friday, 4 March 2011

CD Review - Johann Kuhnau - Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien

Pressing On, Radio New Zealand Concert, Sunday 12 December

For his debut recording, Wellington organist Richard Apperley has chosen a most unusual branch of repertoire. Johann Kuhnau was Bach’s predecessor at the St Thomas Lutheran Church in Leipzig, and although his music has been almost totally eclipsed by that of Bach, it seems that he did have some influence on his successor.

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Sunday, 12 December 2010

CD Review - Johann Kuhnau - Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien

ORGANZ News, December 2010

This is a fascinating and interesting C. D which is certainly not ‘background’ music, or organ music to be played and listened to as with the regular repertoire of organ recitals. It is important to read the notes first about the composer, and then, whilst listening to the C.D. the notes on each of the biblical scenes depicted in the six Sonatas, with their individual movements.

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Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Richard Apperley contributes to National Organ Month

Wellington Organists’ Association

Kuhnau: Biblical Sonata – The combat between David and Goliath
Buxtehude: Fugue in C
C.P.E. Bach: Sonata in G minor
Kuhnau: Biblical Sonata – Hezekiah dying and restored to health
Buxtehude: Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne in C

St. Mary of the Angels

Monday, 6 September, 1pm

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Monday, 6 September 2010

Concert of Contrasts

Napier Civic Choir, conducted by David Hamilton
Napier Cathedral

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Sunday, 15 August 2010

Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater

Pergolesi Stabat Mater, with sacred music from the baroque

Felicity Smith (mezzo soprano) with Richard Apperley (organ), Rowena Simpson (soprano), Claire Macfarlane (violin), Jenna Pascoe (violin), Michael Joel (viola) and Kat Thompson (cello)

St Peter’s Church, Willis Street

Friday, 2 July 2010

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Friday, 2 July 2010

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