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.

Towards the good life

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Choir & Organ

GOTTFRIED SILBERMANN ORGAN COMPETITION ANNOUNCED

MUSICIANS’ CENSUS

AZRIELI MUSIC PRIZES ANNOUNCE 2024 COMPETITION

NEWS IN BRIEF

EVENTS

PAST LIVES

30 YEARS OF THE ERIC THOMPSON TRUST

DARTINGTON CELEBRATES 75 YEARS

2023 RCO MEDAL HONORANDS ANNOUNCED

APPOINTMENTS & AWARDS

EARLY MUSIC FROM EDINBURGH DELPHIAN

‘REGARDS FROM ROCHESTER’

PREMIERES [RP = REGIONAL PREMIERE]

RECITAL ROUND-UP

LETTERS

James Litton • 1934 – 2022

Every step of the way • Now ranking as one of the most successful independent labels in the world, Edinburgh-based Delphian Records was founded in 2000. Seventeen years ago, Graeme Kay documented the ambitions and struggles of the fledgling enterprise in these pages – he returns to Scotland to catch up with managing director Paul Baxter and creative director Will Coates-Gibson

David Hill In conversation with… Masaaki Suzuki • Founder-director of Bach Collegium Japan

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Full circle • The enlargement of a 1960s Metzler organ in the Netherlands has bookended the career of the late Bernhardt Edskes. Chris Bragg went to visit.

A 150th anniversary celebration

Shifting perceptions • Addressing a political hot potato, Liz Dilnot Johnson’s Requiem for refugees, commissioned by Ex Cathedra, won her the Community & Participation Award at the Ivors in November 2022. She talks to Matthew Power about what motivates her to compose

The go-between • The energy and passion that organist Olivier Latry brings to his artistry is derived from the instruments that inspire him and the music they serve. He talks to Pierre Dubois

Freestyle • How now brown cow updated; and don’t rain on my parade

Introit • Cydonie Banting talks to Matthew Power about her commission for solo organ, and how her composing has been influenced by her collaboration with Ugandan musicians

On track • Our special 30th-anniversary covermounted disc is a selection of tracks from albums released by Delphian Records (see p.18). Delphian’s founder-director Paul Baxter here gives the background to each track, and we add connections to Choir & Organ over the past three decades

Insight and inspiration for music professionals

New heights • Jonathan Ambrosino visits Christ Church Episcopal, Philadelphia, to experience a deeply considered stylistic departure from C.B. Fisk.

Digital Digest • Gaining access to a church organ for practice can be problematical, so why not consider a digital instrument for home use?

Another country • ‘The past is another country’ – and so was early music when the Tallis Scholars first assembled to perform it 50 years ago. Founder-director Peter Phillips talks to Clare Stevens about how performing techniques have been honed in the intervening decades, and how Renaissance music has enjoyed its own rebirth.

Work in progress • Paul Hale illustrates current projects in the busy workshop of the German firm Hermann Eule Orgelbau. PHOTOS COURTESY HERMANN EULE ORGELBAU

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