Over the years I have kept a random selection of programme notes and informally made recordings of performances in which I am either playing or directing.
Eight short preludes & fugues attributed to J. S. Bach (BWV 553–560). Recorded 2022.
Exaudia ad missam : my lockdown recordings (2020–21)
Organ music by:
Nadia Boulanger, Maude Campbell-Jansen, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Jeanne Demessieux, Marcel Dupré Jean Langlais, Jaye Loder, Olivier Messiaen, Henri Mulut, Flor Peeters, Florence Price, Alec Rowley, Noel Rawsthorne, Hermann Schroeder.
J. S. Bach’s Orgelbüchlein : my lockdown recordings. (2020–21)
Andrew Pink playing the Prelude in G minor (BWV 535) by J. S. Bach (1675-1750); a recording made in May 2000 on the Richard Bower organ (1993) at St Paul’s Church, Harringay, north London.
Recording 2000©Andrew Pink. All rights reserved. [Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)]
A concert performance of Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, conducted by Andrew Pink, performed on 21 March 1992 by the 17-voice St Pancras Singers at St John’s Wood Church, London NW8. Note: In this performance we set ourselves the task of observing Fauré’s extreme dynamic markings to the letter.
Recording 1992©Andrew Pink and the performers. All rights reserved. [Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)]
A concert performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms (1965) conducted by Andrew Pink, performed on 21 March 1992 by the 17-voice St Pancras Singers at St John’s Wood Church, London NW8.
Recording 1992©Andrew Pink and the performers. All rights reserved. [Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)]
A concert performance of Ross Edwards’s Flower Songs (1986-7) for 16-part choir, keyboard, and percussion, conducted by Andrew Pink, performed on 21 March 1992 by the 17-voice St Pancras Singers at St John’s Wood Church, London NW8. Note: In this performance we chose to use just one percussionist … another time we’d use two!
Recording 1992©Andrew Pink and the performers. All rights reserved. [Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)]
The composer writes: Flower Songs is a choral maninya (dance/chant). Its text consists of the scientific names (in Latin and ancient Greek) of a selection of central eastern Australian wild flowers, and is characterised by modified repetition of rhythmic patterns centered on drones – a sort of hypnotic incantation.
Ein guter neuer Dantz: Renaissance dance music: 1577-1629. Andrew Pink performs (2017) a set of nine renaissance-era dances edited for keyboard by Hans Haselböck (b.1926). Temperament: quarter-comma meantime (pure thirds) at a pitch of A-427. Listen …
A concert performance of Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem given by the UCL Central Divisions Staff Choir conducted by Andrew Pink on 24 March 2004 in Christ the King church, Gordon Square, London WC1.
Programme notes (UCL Discovery)
A programme of choral and orchestral music including ‘Fantasia on Christmas Carols’ by Ralph Vaughan Williams and extracts from ‘Messiah’ by George Frederick Handel. A performance by the UCL Singers, UCL Chamber Music Club Orchestra and soloists, conducted by Andrew Pink. Tuesday 15 December 2009. North Cloister, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1.
Programme Notes (UCL Discovery)
A programme of choral and orchestral music by Roger Beeson (b.1945), Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704), Gustav Holst (1874-1934), Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) given by the UCL Singers and the UCL Chamber Music Club Orchestra conducted by Andrew Pink on 9 December 2008 in the North Cloister, UCL main campus, London WC1.
Programme Notes (UCL Discovery)
A programme of choral and orchestral music including ‘Magnificat’ by Giovanni Pergolesi and unacompanied choral works by John Taverner (1944–2013), Peter Warlock (1899–1957) and Roger Beeson (b.1945). A performance by the UCL Singers, UCL Strings, Southwark Waits and soloists, conducted by Andrew Pink. Tuesday 11 December 2007. North Cloister, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1.
Programme notes (archive.org)
A concert performance of Messe Basse by Gabriel Fauré and settings of Ave verum corpus by William Byrd, Edward Elgar, Gabriel Fauré, Wolfgang Mozart, Camille Saint-Saëns given by the UCL Singers conducted by Andrew Pink on 25 March 2005 in Christ the King church, Gordon Square, London, WC1.
Programme Notes (UCL Discovery)
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