In an article for the RCO Journal 2020/2021, Andrew Cantrill-Fenwick discusses the fate of the organ in Revolutionary France, outside of the liturgical tradition in which the organ had originally prospered.  In this film to accompany the article, he demonstrates how the organ and organ music developed post-1789, playing both pre- and post-revolutionary music on the Phelps organ at Hexham Abbey.

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