David Leigh, assistant organist of St Patrick's Cathedral, is having a busy year. His recital at St Michael's, Dun Laoghaire, on Sunday night is the tenth concert appearance this year about which notice has come my way, and in the course of his year's work he has already treated audiences at St Patrick's to the complete symphonies of Vierne.

I hadn't heard him before his Dun Laoghaire appearance, where he played a 50-minute programme of Byrd, Bach, Brahms, Leighton, Langlai and Kopfreiter. The workmanship of his delivery across this range of music was solid, and his concern to establish a clear character for each work was consistently evident, if not always equally successful.

The opening Byrd Fantasia sounded dutiful, and he set Bach's Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV534, in motion at a sonorous lumber, creating a sort of monolithic statement without revealing any features of particular individual interest.

There was a similar earnestness about the second of Brahms's settings of Herzlich tut mich verlangen where, with the chorale melody well tucked away, the effect was to make the composer sound as if he had been engaged on an early stab at minimalism.

On the other hand, the bright giddiness of the Theme and Variations from Jean Langlais's Hommage a Fresco- baldi was done with suitable brilliance, and the same approach was guaranteed to be effective in the wrong-note tricks of Kopfreiter's Toccata Francese.

At the heart of the programme was the Prelude, Scherzo and Passacaglia by the British composer Kenneth Leighton, who died in 1988, the year before his 60th birthday. Leighton had a good ear for virtuoso effect, a trait well evidenced here, and captured with spirited, almost French ambience by David Leigh.