Where can I hear the organs?

CD recording

A CD recording More sweet to hear is now available, featuring the Wetheringsett and Wingfield organs played by Magnus Williamson, together with the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, directed by Geoffrey Webber.

More details, together with a downloadable booklet, can be found here.

Events

The organs are currently in residence at Durham Cathedral.

Following a very successful residency at Oxford the organs have now been relocated to Durham for a year (April 2007 – April 2008) where they will feature prominently in the liturgy.

The instruments can be heard at Evensong on the following dates:
4, 11, 17, 25, 30 May
6, 21, 22 June
4, 12, 15, 20 July
and on 20 May at Matins.

Full details will be available on the RCO and Durham Cathedral websites shortly.

Past Events

2006–7

From October 2006 – April 2007 the organs were in residency in Oxford:
the Wetheringsett organ in New College Chapel the Wingfield organ in All Souls College Chapel

Wednesday 8 November 2006
Choral and organ music from 16th century England and Spain
8.15pm in New College Chapel
The Queen's College Chapel Choir, Owen Rees director
Admission £6, £4 concessions, £3 students
Admission by programme at the door
Reservations and other enquiries: rosemary.rey@queens.ox.ac.uk

Saturday 27 January
The organ music of 16th-century England
10am – 12 noon, New College
2 – 4pm, All Souls
Magnus Williamson will give a masterclass on the organ music of 16th-century England, as it relates to the two EEOP organs. Issues raised by the instruments will also be discussed.

Tuesday, 30 January 2007
A Tudor Progress including music from the Mulliner Book and
My Ladye Nevells Booke
The Two Early English Organs feature in a concert with Patrick Russill and Members of The Sixteen.
7.30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Tickets: £15.00 and £11.00

A pre-concert talk at 6.15 p.m. will be given by the organ builder Dominic Gwynn, historian and author Professor Eamon Duffy and Patrick Russill. With Andrew McCrea they will explore the importance of the two organs and the place of the organ in pre-Reformation liturgy. Admission free.
The pre-concert talk is presented in collaboration with The Royal College of Organists.
Tichets are available direct from the Queen Elizabeth Hall: www.rfh.org.uk/main/events

12 – 15 April
Conference "The Organ in England to the Death of Elizabeth I:
music, technology, and the wider role"

This conference will be centred around the two Early English Organs.

Papers are invited on any topic relating to organs, organ music and literature, construction, and performance practice up to the beginning of the 17th century.

Topics may include (but are not limited to) the liturgical use of the organ, its greater role in society, relevant technology (including areas such as possible connections with clock-making, bell-casting, the English tin industry, etc.), iconography, music education as it may relate to the organ, music publishing (organ) in the period, and medieval and renaissance scientific inquiry and the organ. 200-word abstracts should be submitted by 15 December, and replies will be sent by 1 February.

Participants include: John Harper, Peter Williams, Dominic Gwynn, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Eamon Duffy, John Caldwell, Magnus Williamson, Kimberly Marshall, Madeline Katkov, Jane Flynn, and others.

There will be evening concerts and a reconstructed pre-Reformation liturgy.

Accommodation will be provided in Oxford Colleges.

For further information, see
www.music.ox.ac.uk/organconference;
or write to kfpardee@yahoo.com