Dame Gillian Weir, in conversation with Andrew McCrea, reflects on Messiaen and the performance of his organ music. This discussion originally appeared as an article in the RCO Journal of 2008. RCO Journal 2008_Weir    

Paul Spicer discusses the music he has spent a lifetime espousing – the choral music by the composers who reinvented the musical wheel in this country in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; a genre which, in the right hands, could stand up and be counted, holding its own in any company, given a […]

Of the most influential musical figures of Victorian Britain, John Stainer must be considered a seminal personality who shaped the course of the nation’s history and progress. Though nowadays neglected as a composer, his influence as a church musician in the formation of the ‘reformed’ cathedral choir was immense and far-reaching. His work in education […]

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