Christ lag in Todesbanden - Bohm

Wer nur der lieben Gott lasst walten - Bohm

Prelude and Fugue in E flat, BWV552 - Bach

Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott, Bux WV199 - Buxtehude

Allegro, Chorale and Fugue in D - Mendelssohn

Composition on Three Staves - Andrew Synnott

Dialogue sur les Mixtures - Langlais

The closing recital of the 25th summer series at St Michael's, Dun Laoghaire, was given on Sunday night by Anne Leahy, co-director of the series and long-time organist and director of music at the church.

Her style is notable for a strongly-communicative enthusiasm, best evidenced on Sunday in the thrust of Bach's great Prelude and Fugue in E flat, which she was able to sustain in the face of some unexpected slips and stutters.

Mendelssohn is a composer who responds well to her approach, the studiousness of many another performer being replaced in the Allegro, Chorale and Fugue by a more outgoing character. But her manner did not suit the pieces by Georg Bohm (1661-1733), which seemed to call for greater articulation of detail and a sharper delineation of phrase. Buxtehude's Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott, presented with pleasing serenity, was altogether more successful.

The young Irish composer Andrew Synnott's Composition on Three Staves made an interesting companion piece to Langlais's Dialogue sur les Mixtures. It's a light, finely-finished piece influenced by French models.

If you know French Blue, the test piece Philip Hammond wrote for the 1991 Dublin International Piano Competition, you could think of Composition on Three Staves, loosely speaking, as a sort of organ equivalent. Anne Leahy relished its rhythmic verve as much as she did the high spirits of the Langlais, which brought the evening to a cheerful close.