The St James' International Organ Festival 2026: Benjamin Sheen

Benjamin Sheen comes to St James’ with a programme that draws on the organ’s orchestral imagination.

Walton’s ceremonial march and Sheen’s own transcription of Elgar’s Cockaigne frame a recital with Whitlock, Jongen, Liszt, and Horatio Parker in between.

There is plenty of colour here, but also real breadth. It is a programme that shows the instrument at its most versatile - capable of grandeur, lyricism, and warmth

~ Programme ~

William Walton (arr. Winpenny)

March for ‘A History of the English Speaking Peoples’

Percy Whitlock

Fantasie Choral No. 1 in Db Major

Joseph Jongen 

Two Pieces for organ, Op. 108

Franz Liszt (arr. Rogg)

Légende no. 2: Saint François de Paule marchant sur les flots

Horatio Parker

Allegretto, from Organ Sonata in E flat minor, Op. 65

Edward Elgar (arr. G Sheen)

Cockaigne Overture (In London Town), Op. 40