Keyboard players of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were expected to be proficient accompanists on all types of keyboard instrument, from organ to harpsichord and, later, fortepiano. Thomas Allery looks at original source material to gain insight into the performance practices of early music.

Given Johann Jacob Froberger’s significance in the written history of music, it is surprising how little of his music is regularly played or known today. The 400th anniversary of Froberger’s birth presented an ideal opportunity for Terence Charlston to reassess current trends and to enhance the diversity and presence of Froberger’s music within our performance culture.

The Journal of the Royal College of Organists is the College’s annual research publication, and Volume 3, 2009 can be downloaded here.

The Journal of the Royal College of Organists is the College’s annual research publication, and Volume 4, 2010 can be downloaded here.

The Journal of the Royal College of Organists is the College’s annual research publication, and Volume 2, 2008 can be downloaded here.

The Journal of the Royal College of Organists is the College’s annual research publication, and Volume 1 (New Series), 2007 can be downloaded here.

In just six nights of bombing during the Second World War, the City of London lost 26 organs. Seventy years later, David S. Knight surveyed what was lost, and charted the heroic efforts to bring music back to shattered churches.

This compilation of material begins with an article by Terence Charlston examining the Theewes claviorgan in detail, and how an instrument of this type might inform our view of the solo repertoire of the time and change our understanding of keyboard instruments in ensemble performance.

It also includes an inventory of surviving claviorgans and a series of short recordings of the Goetze & Gwynn reconstruction of the Theewes’s organ part combined with a Flemish-style harpsichord by David Evans.

The 2015 edition of the College’s annual research publication, The Journal of the Royal College of Organists, can be downloaded here as a complete edition.