Choir & Organ

Choir & Organ shines a global spotlight on two distinctive fields of creativity, celebrating inventiveness and excellence in all their forms. We aim to inspire our readers through giving a platform to conductors, organists, composers, and choirs of every kind; and showcasing the imaginative craft of pipe organ building across the centuries, critiquing new organs and tackling ethics in restoring historic instruments.

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Blending old and new • Forty years ago, performances of early music were hard to find in Scotland. This turned around with the launch of the chamber choir Cappella Nova, who soon began presenting concerts of renaissance music alongside contemporary works. Clare Stevens meets Alan and Rebecca Tavener.

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Voices of Berlin • Henry Fairs continues his survey of great instruments around the German capital with a trip to Brandenburg Cathedral

David Hill In conversation with … Sarah MacDonald • Ely Cathedral and Selwyn College, Cambridge

Profound and lyrical • In Oxfordshire a significant new organ from Nicholson & Co. makes itself heard in a very full room. Matthew Power visits Radley College Chapel

Freestyle • Praying for Ukraine; the cab driver test

Nebulae for solo organ • Joyous from start to finish’. Matthew Shorten talks to Matthew Power about the experience of writing his first piece for solo organ

Fall from grace • What prompted a former rock star to compose an oratorio on the central theme of Milton’s Paradise Lost? David Wordsworth meets The Police drummer Stewart Copeland

Fathers of the Victorians • Nicholas Thistlethwaite continues his study of pre-eminent contributors to Victorian church music

Back to basics • Turning to the original manuscript of Vivaldi’s Gloria and publishing the results proved the catalyst for the launch of a new publishing house whose urtext editions are respected the world over. Stephen Pritchard traces the first 50 years of Carus-Verlag

MOZART • The most naturally gifted musician in history

To the glory of God • Martin Luther preached there, Mozart played the organ, and its greatest Cantor was J.S. Bach – Leipzig’s Thomaskirche is a place of pilgrimage for church musicians the world over. In 2012, 800 years after the foundation of its choir, the then Cantor, Georg Christoph Biller, talked to Simon Harden about the role of music in the church

Work in progress • The completed restoration of the renowned E.M. Skinner organ at Woolsey Hall is a landmark in American organ culture. Paul Hale reports on the continuing craftsmanship of the A. Thompson-Allen Company.

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