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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Voices of Berlin • Continuing his series on historic organs of Berlin, Henry Fairs examines a restored instrument fit for a princess

Adrian Partington • Gloucester Cathedral and BBC National Chorus of Wales

All hail, Handel • Styles of performing baroque music have developed greatly over the last 100 years, as reflected in this year’s centenary celebrations of the Handel Festival Halle. Stephen Pritchard previews the festival steeped in the music of the German city’s most famous resident

Sources of learning • Performance practice and scholarship lie at the heart of Lyrebird Music’s keyboard publications. Thomas Allery reviews the catalogue and speaks to founder and musicologist Jon Baxendale

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Community vision • A choir in Los Angeles is committed to raising awareness of the experiences of people who are marginalised and discriminated against. Tonality director Alexander Lloyd Blake talks to Clare Stevens.

A virtue out of necessity • Designed by an English architect, the Virginia church where President George Washington worshipped now has a British pipe organ. Matthew Power hears from its makers and players

Freestyle • A bit of a wobbly, a novel use for a toy organ stop, and catching up with Dame Gillian

Out of sight • New research has unearthed music from enclosed convents in 16th-century Florence and Verona, now being presented by Musica Secreta alongside a complementary work by Joanna Marsh. Director Laurie Stras talks to Adrian Horsewood

Fathers of the Victorians • Nicholas Thistlethwaite sheds further light on the contribution to the Victorian era of significant organist-composers

‘An artist and a Christian’ • Best-known for his organ works, the Belgian composer Flor Peeters also has more than 60 choral works in his catalogue that deserve to be performed more often, argues Nicholas Riddle

TUTORIAL • To mark the 175th anniversary of the death of Felix Mendelssohn, we draw on an organ tutorial from the archive in which David Goode introduced the German composer’s Sonata no.6 in D minor op.65 no.6

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