The regular Saturday Morning Organ Treats Concerts continue at
Redland Park United Reformed Church on 18th April 2026.
Tea, Coffee and Cake at 10.30am followed by 45 mins of Organ Music starting at 11 am.
This month the organist is Ian de Massini (Cambridge). Here is his programme:
- Trumpet Voluntary, based on Prelude in C major BWV 547a by J S Bach, arr. by Ian de Massini (born 1959)
- Scherzo. Opus 8 originally written for symphony orchestra by Maurice Duruflé, arr. for solo organ by Ian de Massini.
- Meditation upon the hymn-tune, All are welcome, by Ian de Massini.
- Trio Sonata no. 6 in G major, BWV 530 by J S Bach
i. Vivace. ii. Lento. iii. Allegro. - Choral no. 1 in E major by Cesar Franck.
The Organ Treats concerts at Redland Park URC, Whiteladies Road have been running since January 2024. The soloists have been drawn from musicians in the South West who are well known in Bristol. The soloist on April 18th this year is a friend from Cambridge, lan de Massini. We are glad to be able to call him a friend and glad that last year he offered to play for one of the RP concerts. He is uniquely talented, a superb pianist and organist, a highly rated choral conductor, an inspired composer and arranger of music who can communicate the enjoyment of music to his listeners. For 25 years, lan was also the musical arranger and accordionist for The Cambridge Buskers.
lan read Music at the University of Cambridge whilst singing in the choir of King’s College Chapel. In 1987, lan founded his own Choir, Cambridge Voices, directed them for 38 years, recording 14 CDs with them, and winning the Prix d’Or, awarded by the French classical music magazine, Diapason, for the choir’s recordings of the music of the French 20th-century composer, Maurice Duruflé.
lan is currently Joint Director of Music at Downing Place United Reformed Church, Cambridge, and designed the ground-breaking Hauptwerk Digital Organ recently installed in that church.
This year, being the 40th anniversary of the death of Maurice Duruflé, lan is busy arranging, for solo organ, every piece of music that Duruflé ever wrote, including all his orchestral and chamber music, as well as transcribing Duruflé’s improvisations.
As part of lan’s “musical outreach” into the community, he is attracting many young people to attend his innovative concerts in Cambridge that combine the screening of popular ballets on the church’s big screen, accompanied by lan on the organ, with the console placed directly underneath the screen. The series will include all the ballets of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky, as well as Peter & the Wolf, Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Pictures at an Exhibition, The `1812′ Overture, Holst’s Planets and other orchestral tone-poems arranged for the organ by lan.
John and Joan Turner
Click here to see Ian’s biographical timeline.
Admission by £5 donation.
We also welcome donations to the organ fund.
Click here to download a note about the organ’s history and a complete specification.
Whilst in the area you might like to take the opportunity to visit the sustainable Whiteladies Road Farmers Market, almost directly opposite the church. A good range of fresh, locally sourced, low-package fruit and veg, bakery goods, fish and meat are on sale, at sensible prices.