On Saturday March 6th at 8pm David Bremner presents an evening of speculative music for pipe organ by 17th- and 21st-century composers at St Bartholomew's Church, Ballsbridge. All the works featured have the quality of immersing the listener in the music's contrapuntal machinery itself. The programme as a whole functions like a Baroque suite- all the pieces explore a single mood, but within the programme as a whole there are strong contrasts. Long periods of quiet, sustained and reflective music are interrupted by bursts of uncontrollable energy.

Solemn Eucharist sung by the boys and men Byrd Mass for five voices Battishill O Lord, look down from heaven

Choral Evensong sung by the men Tallis responses Moore The second service Walker I will lift up mine eyes

Solemn Eucharist sung by the boys and men Palestrina Missa brevis Bach O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens licht

Choral Evensong sung by the girls Plainsong responses Macintosh Magnificat, Burgon Nunc Dimittis Ireland Ex ore innocentium

Solemn Eucharist sung by the boys and men Hassler: Missa secunda Tallis: In manus tuas, Domine

Choral Evensong sung by the girls and men Ebdon responses Stanford in G Stainer: God so loved the world

The main work in this concert is the well known and much loved Duruflé Requiem, written in 1947. Like many of his works it is based on plainsong, but clothed in rich harmonies and influenced by Debussy and Ravel. Elgar’s Te Deum was written in 1897 and commissioned for the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford. Give unto the Lord is a setting of Psalm 29.

Solemn Eucharist Sung by the girls and men Plainsong mass Ives: Ride on in majesty

Choral Evensong sung by the boys and men Weelkes: Hosanna to the Son of David Noble in B minor Leighton: Solus ad victimam