Peter Williams – a personal recollection

Professor Peter Williams, Bach Scholar and a Vice President of the RCO, has passed away, appropriately around midnight just before Bach’s birthday, the 21st March. Official tributes will of course be paid elsewhere, but I would like to remember a study day which I attended as a very newbie organist, in which his sharp, questioning intelligence, combined with great authority, were powerfully in evidence.

Beyond the printed edition – a commentary on Buxtehude’s organ music by Geoffrey Webber (Members only download)

Geoffrey Webber’s extensive commentary on the current editions of Buxtehude’s organ music was published to mark the Buxtehude Tercentenary year in 2007.  The aim of this resource is to allow players to move beyond having to rely on any one edition, and to make their own informed decisions about the textual problems.