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April 2020
Chris has recorded on his organ at home a YouTube playlist called Music for the Soul: 40 organ pieces for Lent.
March 2020
Chris has competed a substantial revision of his extensively illustrated The History of the Organs of St Matthew's Bethnal Green.
March 2020
Paraclete Press will be publishing a number of peices by Chris accoriding to the following schedule:
June 2020
All and Some (choir)
Hurry to Bethlehem (choir and organ)
Jesus, to your table led (choir and organ)
Easter Alleluias (organ)
Suite (organ)
January 2021
Invocation and Paean (organ)
Prelude & Fugue (organ)
June 2021
The World's Desire (choir)
The Jolly Shepherd (choir and organ)
The Linden Tree Carol (choir)
Love Came Down at Christmas (choir and organ)
A Little Child There is Yborn (choir)
Ad Cantus Leticie (choir)
June 2020
All and Some (choir)
Hurry to Bethlehem (choir and organ)
Jesus, to your table led (choir and organ)
Easter Alleluias (organ)
Suite (organ)
January 2021
Invocation and Paean (organ)
Prelude & Fugue (organ)
June 2021
The World's Desire (choir)
The Jolly Shepherd (choir and organ)
The Linden Tree Carol (choir)
Love Came Down at Christmas (choir and organ)
A Little Child There is Yborn (choir)
Ad Cantus Leticie (choir)
January 2020
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Paraclete Press have published Prelude and Fugue on the Name of Durufle (organ), Eleven Chorale Preludes (organ) and Let Christians all with joyful mirth (choir and organ).
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October 2019
Paraclete Press have accepted Easter Alleluias (fantasia for organ on 'Victimae Pachali Laudes') for publication.
June 2019
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Paraclete Press have now published two more of Chris's choral pieces:
Hark! Hark! Glad tidings charm our ears Love is... |
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Thursday 2 April, 2020, 7.00pmGiltspur Singers Spring Concert at St Margaret Lothbury in the City of London; including the performance of three of Chris's songs
CANCELLED OWING TO THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC |
Wednesday 15 April 2020, 7.00pm
Organ recital on the magnificent Hill organ at St Germans' Church, Cardiff.
Resurrexi: Music for Eastertide Toccata Giocosa Op. 36, no. 2 -- William Mathias (1934-1992) Resurrexi (Missa in Die Paschæ) -- Thomas Preston (?-c.1563) Sonata no. 8 in E minor Op. 132 -- Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901) INTERVAL Moto Ostinato (Musica Dominicalis) -- Petr Eben (1927-2007) Four chorale preludes on Christ lag in Todesbanden Georg Böhm (1661-1733) J. S. Bach (1685-1750) BWV 625 J. B. Bach (1676-1749) Christopher Maxim (comp. 2018) Ad regias Agni dapes (Le Tombeau de Titelouze Op. 38) -- Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) Easter Alleluias (Fantasia on Victimae Paschali Laudes) -- Christopher Maxim (comp. 2019) |
Photo credit: AHa on NPOR
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Friday 3 July 2020, 7.00pm
Organ recital on the magnificent Hill organ at St Germans' Church, Cardiff.
Pipes, Bells and Clocks Programme to include: Carillon sure la sonnerie do Carillon de la chapelle du Chateau de Longpont -- Louis Vierne (1870-1937) Pieces for flute-clocks -- Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Fantasia in F minor for a mechanical organ K608 -- W. A. Mozart (1756-1791) An air composer for Holsworthy Church Bells and varied for the organ -- S. S. Wesley (1810-1876) Carillon de Westminster -- Vierne ...and possible a newly-composed piece, too! |
Photo credit: AHa on NPOR
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Saturday 29-Sunday 30 August 2020
Chris will conduct the St Teilo Singers, singing the services at Worcester Cathedral.
Wednesday 9 December 2020, 7.00pm
Christmas with the Giltspur Singers, St Clement Danes, Strand, London.
Saturday 27-Sunday 28 August 2022
Chris will conduct the St Teilo Singers, singing the services at Bristol Cathedral.
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13 March 2020
Dr William Sullivan performed Toccata Nuptiale in his recital entitled 'Five Aspects of Love', part of the Friday Pipes series on the four-manual Möller organ at Third Baptist Church, 620 North Grand, St Louis, Missouri, USA.
12 January 2020
Samantha Christopher and two of her clarinet pupils performed movements from Duet Suite and Liquorice Allsorts in a concert at St Botolph's Church, Colchester.
21 December 2019
15 December 2019
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Love came down at Christmas received its first liturgical performance in the Carol Service at St Matthew's, Bethnal Green: the occasion for which it was composed. |
11 December 2019
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The Giltspur Singers gave two premieres in their Christmas Concert: |
8 December 2019
The choir of St Mary's Catholic Church, Blackheath (Director: Tim Murray) peformed The Jolly Shepherd (to be published by Paraclete Press).
16 November 2019
The choir of St Mary's Catholic Church Blackheath (Director: Tim Murray) performed Chris's second setting of the Bendictus as the canticle at Morning Prayer. Tim commissioned the piece for this purpose but this was the first time that it had been possible to perform it in its liturgical context.
25 October 2019
Heather Moen-Boyd played Toccata Nuptiale as the finale to her recital on the Hill, Norman and Beard organ at St Stephen's Uniting Church, 197 Macquarie Street, Sydney, Australia.
1 August 2019
Baritone Roderick Williams OBE sang There is Sweet Music, (accompanied by Susie Allan, (piano) in a song recital at Cheltenham College as part of the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival.
13 July 2019
Altar Prayer at Petertide, to words by Adey Grummet, was premiered at the College of St Barnabas, Lingfield.
12 July 2019
Chris performed his Sonatina for Piano in a Giltspur Singers concert at St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, London.
11 July 2019
Toccata Nuptiale was performed by Ian Pattinson (Organist of Lancaster Priory) in a concert given by the King's Men at St George's Church, Kendal. Reviewer Adrian Mullen wrote in the Westmorland Gazette that the piece 'proved very popular with the audience'.
28 April 2019
11 March 2019
Dr Richard Dunster-Sigtermans (St Andrew's, Rugby) performed Toccata Nuptiale in a recital at Newcastle Cathedral.
2 February 2019
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16 December 2018
The choir of St Margaret's Lee (Director: Duncan Atkinson QC) performed Let Christians all with joyful mirth (now published by Paraclete Press).
11 November 2018
The choir of St Mary's Catholic Church, Blackheath (Director: Tim Murray) performed Bring us, O Lord God (original version with divisions) at their Mass for the Centenary of the WWI Armistice.
21 October 2018
The choir of St Margaret's Lee (Director: Duncan Atkinson QC) performed Bring us, O Lord God at Choral Evensong.
26 August 2018
The St Teilo Singers sang Missa Sacerdotes Domini at Exeter Cathedral, marking 20 years since the premiere of the work, which also took place in Exeter.
4 August 2018
The Giltspur Singers performed a new commission (Two Doves) at the wedding of Mr Jonathan Stoneman and Ms Antonia Mott.
24 June 2018
The choir of St Margaret's Lee (Director: Duncan Atkinson QC) sang Chris's Third Service (composed in 1996) at Choral Evensong.
27 May 2018
Chris's Missa Sancti Teili was sung at Choral Eucharist at Llandaff Cathedral under the direction of Alex Thacker.
8 March 2018
Christine Wells performed Toccata Nuptiale in a recital at St Nicolas Church, Newbury.
10 December 2017
Chris's new setting of the Benedictus was premiered at the Christmas Carol Service at St Mary's Catholic Church, Blackheath. Conductor Tim Murray commissioned this piece.
3 December 2017
A transcription by Martin Cordner of Chris's arrangement of 'Winchester Old' was performed by the Cambridge Citadel Salvation Army brass band and Salvation Army Songsters, along with the audience the the 'Christmas Begins Here' concert at the West Road Concert Hall.
8 October 2017
Chris's Descant to 'Westminster Abbey' was sung at Chapel Hill United Methodist Church, Portage, Michigan, USA.
14 September 2017
Andrew Caskie performed Toccata Nuptiale in a recital at Kidderminster Town Hall.
Week of 14 August 2017
Toccata Nuptiale was broadcast in the Pipedreams programme on United States radio. The episode was called Toccata, again! The version played was Michael Stairs' recording.
8 July 2017
Chris's setting for organ of Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl -- one of the chorale tunes that Bach would have set in his Orgelbüchlein (if he had got round to it) -- was played by Nick Morris in a concert on Saturday 8 July, at St George's Church, Hanover Square, having been chosen for the short list in the Royal College of Organists /Orgelbüchlein Project Chorale Prelude Competition. Chris's piece won the Audience Vote for Es spricht.
4 July 2017
Laurence Caldecote performed Toccata Nuptiale in Winchester Cathedral. His recording may be heard here.
