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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GRAMOPHONE PRESENTS MAHLER • The last great Romantic symphonist

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MUSIC SHAKE-UP AT BELFAST CATHEDRAL

POLLHAMMER TAKES FIRST PRIZE IN ALKMAAR

NEWS IN BRIEF

EVENTS

APPOINTMENTS & AWARDS

NØRGÅRD AT 90

ORGELBÜCHLEIN PREMIERED IN FULL

Bach and Friends: The Orgelbüchlein Completed – UK premiere

ST ALBANS IOF CELEBRATES 60 YEARS

PREMIERES [RP = REGIONAL PREMIERE]

EUROPEAN CHOIR GAMES RETURNS TO SWEDEN

RECITAL ROUND-UP

Richard Seal 1935 – 2022

TRIBUTES TO SIMON • As an organist, composer and musical director, Simon Preston CBE inspired many with his unique blend of perfectionism, dazzling technique and sharp sense of humour. Readers share memories of working and socialising with him

A question of scale • Chris Bragg investigates the challenges faced by Bernard Aubertin in designing an organ for the most intimate of spaces

David Hill In conversation with… Simon Halsey • Chorus director, CBSO and LSO.

From city to heath • As the Danish Radio Concert Choir marks its 90th anniversary, Jens Cornelius assesses how it remains true to its original mission.

Voices of Berlin • Continuing his tour of the city, Henry Fairs explores a remarkable instrument by a Bavarian builder

Freestyle • Sorry, #NotMovingOn; not burning the church down; and Olivier on fire in London

Gabrielle Liriano O Lamb of God • In composing an a cappella piece for Apollo5, Gabrielle Liriano drew the dots between Byrd’s five-part Mass and her own Afro-Dominican background, writes Matthew Power

Harvest festival • In editing the English Hymnal, Vaughan Williams found his field recordings of folk tunes provided rich pickings for a new repertoire of hymnnody, writes Stephen Pritchard

CHOIR & ORGANPRESENTS…

Scholarships & voice trials • Guide to cathedrals, churches, universities and schools offering places for choristers, choral scholars and organists

Unlocking potential • An ambitious schools singing programme in the Catholic Diocese of Leeds is growing into a national asset. With further funding secured, an innovative keyboard studies programme is nurturing young organists too. Tom Bell reports

Time for a rethink • The music of two 20th-century composers from the British Isles – Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams – is undeservedly neglected and overdue for a revival, writes David Wordsworth

Founding principles • As a major new edition of the intégrale is published, its editor Richard Brasier examines the early organ works of César Franck in a two-part study

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NEXT ISSUE • OCTOBER 2022

TRAVELLER’S JOY • A state-of-the-art concert hall, a church with five organs, and a roll call of famous composers are just some of the many musical attractions of Hamburg, writes Stephen Pritchard

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