Tom Bell continues his video diary around the preparation of the organ works of Olivier Messiaen for performance, now looking at Messiaen’s organ music more widely.

‘The most brilliantly bonkers night out’, ORGANOKE is a sell-out evening of community singing, and has brought a new audience to the 1844 Bishop & Son organ at St Giles, Camberwell.

In ‘Graphics, extended techniques, timbral diversity: collaborative approaches to contemporary organ music’, Daniel Matheison and Thomas Metcalf explore the composer-performer relationship, examining the relationships between a composer’s intention and a performer’s agency.

A recorded conversation between RCO President David Hill and Dame Gillian Weir, originally presented during the Cambridge Summer Music Festival 2022.  Dame Gillian discusses her distinguished career as a concert organist and recording artist, illustrated with extracts from her various recordings. 

Organists come in all shapes and sizes, and a recent survey has highlighted the problems many face in playing their instrument comfortably. A new campaign aims to address this, with practical solutions to ensure equal access and confidence for all.

Tom Bell presents a video diary of his preparations for a performance of Messiaen’s Livre du Saint Sacrement. 

A full listing, with links, of the Learning during Lockdown series, which ran as a series of 16 bulletins throughout 2020.

Magnus Williamson, Professor of Early Music at Newcastle University, presents a film on Tudor organs and organ music, featuring the Wetheringsett organ built in 2002 by Goezte & Gwynn.

In 2019 the European Cities of Historical Organs (ECHO), an association of nine cities with historic organs in nine EU countries, adjudicated on a competition for a project to introduce children to the organ.  The winners were a pair of British musicians, the Scott Brothers Duo.  Jonathan Scott tells us about their winning project, and how they have been able to continue to work through the Covid-19 lockdown across Europe.