On Friday 17th April at 12:30pm Paul Ritchie will give the opening recital in the 2015 series in Morpeth Methodist Church, and in a programme entitled \’From Lent to Eastertide\’ he will include his Chorale and Variations on \’Forty Days and Forty Nights\’. This was the first set of variations he wrote, and after the opening chorale harmonisation there are six variations illustrating ideas expressed in the six verses of the hymn. A recording of this piece can be found on the CDÂ \’Lewis at Cullercoats\’.