A presentation by Martin Schmeding on German Organ Music 1870-1940, the set period for the FRCO History of Organ Music paper for the examinations 2021-2022. 

This is the fifth video in Daniel Moult’s series on playing styles, and discusses the performance of the organ music of French Romanticism, from Franck to Widor.

This video, the fourth in Daniel Moult’s series on playing styles, addresses the German Romantic music of Mendelssohn and Brahms.

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.

One hundred years ago, Harold Darke (1888-1976) began his fifty-year stint as Director of Music at St. Michael’s Cornhill, in the City of London. The church is celebrating this event all through October, and James McVinnie will open with an all-Bach recital in tribute to Darke on Monday 3rd October.

William Whitehead examines the question of Mendelssohn’s articulation markings in his organ music, and discusses what these markings might imply for performance.  This article originally appeared in the RCO Journal of 2012. RCO Journal 2012_Whitehead  

Rather early in his life Robert Schumann developed the tendency to focus his compositional work on a specific genre for a certain period of time. Sometimes, for instance, he would compose almost nothing else but Lieder for a whole year. In 1845 it was the turn of the organ, an instrument that he might have […]

There has been a tendency in recent years to view Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s organ playing and composition for the organ as an almost exclusive product of his musical education in the ‘Bach tradition’. Why this is the case is a topic for another study, but in this essay Johannes Geffert considers some aspects of performance in […]