Darius Battiwalla © Justin Slee

Darius Battiwalla

Name: Darius Battiwalla — Music by Wagner, Mozart, Holmberg, Mendelssohn, and Bovet
Start: 2027-02-08T13:15:00+00:00
Location: Leeds Cathedral

Music by Wagner, Mozart, Holmberg, Mendelssohn, and Bovet

Leeds Lunchtime Organ Music

Mon 8 Feb 1.15PM

Leeds Cathedral

Free admission

Mon 8 Feb

1.15PM

Free admission

Programme

Richard Wagner Overture: Tannhäuser
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Adagio & Allegro, K 594
Betzy Holmberg Two Pieces: ii Scherzo
Felix Mendelssohn ‘Prelude and Fugue’ in E minor
Guy Bovet Three Hamburg Preludes: Hamburger Totentanz

Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser overture, a popular organ recital piece, opens this mainly German programme, which includes some rarely-heard Felix Mendelssohn and a Romantic scherzo by German-Norwegian composer, Betzy Holmberg (1860-1900). The final piece, by Guy Bovet, contains quotes from Georges Bizet, Richard Wagner and Ludwig van Beethoven among others.

Darius Battiwalla is Leeds City Organist.

About the series

Our recital series in 2026/27 will be the final full season to take place at St Anne’s Cathedral before our return to Leeds Town Hall, and we are immensely grateful to the Dean and all the staff here for their hospitality and support over the last five years.

This season we welcome organists from the cathedrals of St Paul, Winchester, Wakefield, Ripon, and Lincoln as well as many eminent concert organists. For the first time in the series, we celebrate the link with one of Leeds’ twin cities, Dortmund, and we also have the Leeds Lunchtime Organ series premiere of one of the organ pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach newly discovered (or rather newly attributed) last year.

We’re very grateful to you, our audience, for your support and enthusiasm – please continue to give as generously as you can to enable the series to continue and grow as we return to Leeds Town Hall.

Darius Battiwalla
Leeds City Organist

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