Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV149 - Buxtehude

Mein junges Leben hat ein End - Sweelinck

Sonata in E flat, BWV525 - Bach

Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV542 - Bach

Wachet auf, BWV645 - Bach

Lub - Andrew Synnott

Toccata - Robert Prizeman

Trevor Clarke (20) is one of the youngest organists to have contributed to the annual series of recitals at St Michael's Church, Dun Laogh aire. In his programme of Baroque and 20th-century music, presented last Sunday, this Dundalk-born musician knew what he wanted from each piece, and, even though technique was not always reliable, his definite articulation produced clear motivic patterns and textures, as in Sweelinck's Mein junges Leben.

However, articulation also tended to get in the way of rhythmic drive and structural clarity. In Bach's Sonata in E flat, BWV525, for example, intermediate closes seemed to arrive suddenly and were then over-emphasised; so the player had little option but to mark the end of a movement via an even more exaggerated slowing. The most well-rounded Baroque performance was of Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV542, which had some of the drama and dash which suits music originating in improvisation.

There were good things in Clarke's playing of the 20th-century pieces, too. Robert Prizeman's Toccata - better known as the theme from BBC TV's Songs of Praise - jogged along amiably, and the calculated disjunctions and contrasts of Andrew Synnott's Lub were supported by beautifully-coloured registration.