An A-Z of the Organ : Q is for Quiet
In Q is for Quiet, Andrew Cantrill-Fenwick discusses the use of silence in music, and how composers from Monteverdi and Bruns to Franck and Messiaen have used space within music to give meaning. This video is one of 26 in a series entitled An A-Z of the Organ, filmed by the RCO team and colleagues around the UK at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown. Starting with A for Anthology and concluding with Z for ? (wait and see!), the series aims to explore various perspectives on the organ - its tonal characteristics, some of the repertoires associated with it,…