BBC Proms - 2009 - Prom 11: David Titterington

David Titterington takes to the Royal Albert Hall's Willis organ to perform Elgar's grand sonata composed in 1895 for Worcester Cathedral's new organist Hugh Blair to play for a group of visiting Americans. The so-called Second Sonata is in fact a free transcription by Ivor Atkins, Blair's successor, of the Severn Suite, compiled from youthful sketches by the elderly Elgar in 1930. The transatlantic connection is continued in Peter Dickinson's Blue Rose Variations, in which the British composer, born in the year of Elgar's death, takes a famous tune by Edward MacDowell and gives it a blues and ragtime spin. David Titterington (organ) Elgar, arr. Atkins: Organ Sonata No 2 Peter Dickinson: Blue Rose Variations Elgar: Organ Sonata No 1 in G.