Two organs from Grant, Degens and Bradbeer
It’s not often you sit down at an organ, in an unprepossessing church, in an unlikely part of town, and start playing…and suddenly you’re covered in goosebumps. Officially we were at St Mary’s Woodford, in East London, for a RCO…
More on the Moor double keyboard piano
Apologies to Klavier-Moor fans who have been waiting for me to post more. I’ve added two pages – one with some downloadable pdfs taken from Herbert Shead’s book, The History of the Emanuel Moor Double Keyboard Piano which is the…
Five questions for…Anne Page
Born in Perth, Australia, Anne Page studied with Marie Claire-Alain in France, and with Peter Hurford in Cambridge – teaching as his deputy at the Royal Academy of Music for several years. She made her London debut at the Royal…
The low-down on temperaments from Carey Beebe
Carey Beebe is a globe-trotting harpsichord maker, based in Sydney Australia, and I recommend his website to organists if they really, really want to get to grips with tuning and temperaments. He explains the Pythagorean comma before launching into a…
Playing Elgar – with Dr Christopher Kent
Elgar’s image-consciousness could put many modern celebs to shame. As photography got into its stride at the turn of the 19th century, he posed for the camera as the dapper country gent (above) or the distinguished composer about to dash…
Organlive and Positively Baroque
Thank you to Lillian’s students in NJ for a link that led me to US internet radio station Organlive.com, devoted to the classical organ. It’s great for background listening – they’re streaming Bach right now in honour of his birthday. …
websites for organ geeks
For all you organ geeks out there (you know who you are) here’s a starter list of appropriate web links: though perhaps I should say aspiring organ geeks, because true geeks will have found these sites and more already…
Barbara Dennerlein – hot stuff on the Hammond B-3
I am no expert on jazz, and and couldn’t for the life of me tell post-bop from hard bop, but I have huge admiration for what Barbara Dennerlein has done for the organ. For starters, Barbara has revived the legendary…
A 50s revival – the London Royal Festival Hall organ
Dubbed the Marmite organ (you either love it or loathe it), the 1950s Royal Festival Hall Harrison & Harrison panorama organ has always been controversial. It’s two thirds through renovation, following a major refurbishment of the Hall itself, including a…
Pipedreams with Michael Barone
Pipedreams, website of the US public radio show, is well worth a visit, even if we can only listen to the archives, not the live programmes, outside of the USA. Their archives contain hundreds of hours of online…
Playing Bach with Professor Peter Williams
Can you be in rapport with an eighteenth century German Lutheran? asked Professor Williams, at the beginning of his study day on Bach in Cambridge last Saturday. All playing is distortion of a kind he said – you are imposing…
My secret weapon – the Moor double keyboard piano
I have no excuse for feeling uncomfortable about manual hopping on the organ, with this piano to practice on. This splendid instrument belongs to a trust, but lives with me. The keyboards are essentially an 8′ and a 4′ working…
Meeting with giants – Gerard Brooks and the organ of Westminster Hall
An RCO workshop with Gerard Brooks on the rebuilt Methodist Central Hall organ
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