To mark the 2023 Reger anniversary year, Peters Edition have published a new Urtext edition of his seven chorale fantasias, edited by Martin Schmeding, to reflect the current state of research into Reger’s music and modern performance practice. 

Find resources here for Woman Composer Sunday, which takes place on March 5 this year. It’s an international platform for music written for organ by women composers, and a new recommended repertoire list created by the Society of Women Organists along with the American Guild of Organists is now available to download.

RCO Accredited Teacher, Anne Marsden Thomas, has curated a major new series of films for everyone involved in organ teaching. A summary of the series with links to all the films can be found here.

In this video, Gerard Brooks presents an illustrated survey of French and Belgian organ repertoire from the nineteenth century and suggests ways to expand your repertoire with pieces of various standards of difficulty by both familiar and unfamiliar composers.

The RCO sees the commissioning of new works for the organ as one of its priorities, and we look at recent additions to the organ repertoire commissioned by the RCO from contemporary composers.

A talk on Spanish and Portuguese organ music in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, written and presented by Martin Schmeding. This is the set history period for ARCO written papers, 2 July 2022-January 2023.

A talk on Brahms and the organ, written and presented by Martin Schmeding (Professor of Organ, Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Leipzig), of particular interest to FRCO students.

Andrew McCrea discusses how to approach the organ repertoire question of the CRCO written paper with particular reference to Stanford’s Six Short Preludes and Postludes, Op.101 and Op.105, the set repertoire for July 2022–January 2023.

A recorded talk by Robert Sholl, with downloads, designed to help candidates the history of organ music written papers at FRCO, but also useful to others interested in French organ music from 1920-2000.