Darius Battiwalla – Leeds City Organist

Remembrance Day: Orchestral Arrangements

Johann Sebastian Bach arr Darius Battiwalla Sinfonia to Cantata No 29
Maria Walpurgis arr Anne Marsden Thomas Talestri: Overture
George Thalben-Ball Elegy
Felix Mendelssohn arr Jørgen Frederiksen A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Scherzo
Johann Strauss II arr Jonathan Scott The Blue Danube
Edward Elgar arr William Harris Nimrod
Edward Elgar arr George Sinclair Pomp and Circumstance March No 4

This concert will last approximately 50 minutes.

The expressive colours of the cathedral’s organ are used to the full in a wide-ranging programme of orchestral transcriptions from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The only original piece in the programme, George Thalben-Ball’s Elegy, originated as an improvisation for a live radio broadcast during World War II, and like Edward Elgar’s Nimrod, has become an essential element of Remembrance Day events.