Richard Brasier explains how Beethoven’s early experiences with the organ as a church musician gradually helped to transform piano technique during the early-Romantic period, in a discussion of his new edition of Beethoven’s works for the organ and for Flötenuhr, published by Verlag Dohn in 2020.

Conductor Nicholas Cleobury continues his guides for organists and choral directors to working with orchestras, with a film discussing how to prepare Mozart’s Coronation Mass for performance.

Organists really do have something to shout about regarding Beethoven after all, says Richard Brasier, in a new film that is the RCO’s contribution to the celebrations around the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth this year.  In Learning during Lockdown this month we look at Beethoven’s relationship with the organ, and at the wider legacy of organ music from the Classical period.  We also note how two organists took a major role in shaping the content of the live music this year’s COVID-constricted BBC Promenade Concerts in the Royal Albert Hall.

In a film to mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, Richard Brasier looks at his working life and short career as an organist in Bonn. 

In this RHS-RCO Masterclass, Matthew Martin discusses the practicalities of performance of the French Classical Repertoire – from registration and articulation, to the fingering for ornamentation and the application of inègale.

Richard Brasier discusses the performance of the organ music of the Classical period: repertoire between the Baroque and Romantic that is often neglected.

OrganFest, the annual weekend celebration of the organ, moves north this year. After two years in the Midlands, it will be held in Edinburgh from Friday 28th to Sunday 30th October, and showcase organs by Willis, Ahrend, and Reiger.

The RCO’s Library contains many examples of printed music from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and a series of digitised editions has been launched to highlight this area of the collection, in order to bring to light often rare material that is not readily available in either printed or electronic formats. This includes the Six Cornet Pieces by the renowned Dr Charles Burney (1726–1814).

The RCO’s Library contains many examples of printed music from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and a series of digitised editions has been launched to highlight this area of the collection: this includes the Six Cornet Pieces by the renowned Dr Charles Burney (1726–1814).