Reports are coming in about the excitement and opportunities that are being generated by the RCO’s Organs in Schools scheme, and the ripple effect into local communities from making a digital organ available to young people.

Max Reger’s Twelve Pieces’ are some of his more accessible works for the organist. Martin Schmeding has edited a new Urtext edition, which includes an extensive essay on the performance of Reger’s organ works.

A celebratory concert by Gerard Brooks to mark the launch of Play the Organ Year 2025 concluded with an enthusiastic audience getting the chance to ‘have a go’ on the spectacular Hill organ in Methodist Central Hall in London.

An exploration of the authorship of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV565, in an engaging set of documentary films and performances.

The RCO Organ Forum in 2024 marked the centenary of Charles Villiers Stanford’s death with a day of discussion and performances at Trinity College, Cambridge, where Stanford spent much of his musical life.

The College’s bi-annual magazine for members contains features, details of forthcoming events and courses, and general news and views from the RCO.

A new volume from The Orgelbuchlein Project, a 21st-century completion of Bach’s Little Organ Book, has just been published, with a special offer on the price until the end of November 2024.

Alterations from 1955 to an internationally-recognised baroque organ in The Netherlands are being corrected, with a more historically-informed restoration now underway.

The College’s bi-annual magazine for members contains features, details of forthcoming events and courses, and general news and views from the RCO.