August 10:
Richard Wagner (arr. Lemare): Tannhäuser Overture
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542
Cécile Chaminade (arr. J. Scott): Six Concert Études, Op. 35 – Autumn
Jules Grison: Toccata in F major
Charles Ives: Variations on ‘America’
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arr. J. Scott): Overture ‘1812’
“Jonathan Scott tames the mighty mechanical beast that is the Royal Albert Hall organ for this mid-morning recital that promises to show everything the 9,999-pipe instrument can do – bells and whistles included. This Prom journeys from supersized Bach and Edwin Lemare’s spectacular arrangement of Wagner’s Tannhäuser overture to the eccentricity of Charles Ives and the peaceful rapture of Scott’s own arrangement of Cécilie Chaminade’s ‘Autumn’. Another of the organist’s own arrangements, that of Tchaikovsky’s ‘1812’ Overture, will almost literally pull out all the stops, and quite possibly bring the house down.”