Hailing from Adelaide, Alana Brook is Assistant Director of Music at Wakefield Cathedral. Her first recital in Huddersfield Town Hall includes a selection of chorale preludes by women composers. Mendelssohn’s stately Sonata No. 2 is at the heart of the programme, with Vierne’s joyous Final at the close.

Buxtehude - Toccata in F
Bach - Allein Gott in der Höh sei ehr, BWV 662
Fanny Mendelssohn - Prelude in F
Graeme Koehne - To his servant Bach, God grants a final gift: the morning star

Felix Mendelssohn - Organ Sonata No.2 in C minor
Demessieux - Attende Domine
Rosalie Bonighton - Hymn Prelude on ‘Rockingham’
Rebecca Groom te Velde - Lament on ‘Herzlich thut mich verlangen’
Demessieux - Hosanna Filio David
Vierne - Final (Symphony No.1)