Our Assistant Master of the Music, Tom Winpenny and our Organ Scholar, Dewi Rees have put together a programme of online organ recitals. These recitals will be released on a Wednesday lunchtime on the Cathedral's YouTube channel.

Tom Winpenny, Assistant Master of the Music | Wednesday 21 April

Tom Winpenny, Assistant Master of the Music, plays a recital including music for Easter on 1962/2009 Harrison & Harrison organ of St Albans Cathedral.

Paean – Herbert Howells

Les eaux de la grâce (from Les Corps glorieux) – Olivier Messiaen

Concerto in G BWV 592 – JS Bach (after Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar)

O filii et filiae (Variations) – Jeanne Demessieux

Fête op. 51 – Jean Langlais

A full programme and notes are available below.

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Tome Winpenny, Assistant Master of the Music | Wednesday 31 March

Tom Winpenny, Assistant Master of the Music, plays a sequence of music for Passiontide and Holy Week on the 1962/2009 Harrison & Harrison organ of St Albans Cathedral.

Fantasia in C minor BWV 562 –  JS Bach

Chorale Prelude on ‘Rockingham’ – CHH Parry

Chorale Prelude on ‘Vexilla Regis’ – Jeanne Demessieux

Chorale Prelude & Fugue on ‘O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid’ – Ethel Smyth

Herzlich tut mich verlangen op. 122 no. 10 – Johannes Brahms

O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig BWV 656 – JS Bach

A full programme and notes are available below.

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Dewi Rees, Organ Scholar | Wednesday 17 March

A recital given by Dewi Rees, Organ Scholar, on the 1962/2009 Harrison & Harrison organ of St Albans Cathedral, March 2021. The recital includes Toccata & Fugue in D minor – Max Reger (1873-1916), Trio Sonata no. 6 – JS Bach (1685-1750) and Fugue in A flat minor – Johannes Brahms (1833-1897).

A full programme and notes are available below.

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Tom Winpenny, Assistant Master of the Music | Wednesday 24 February

A recital given by Tom Winpenny, Assistant Master of the Music, on the 1962/2009 Harrison & Harrison organ of St Albans Cathedral, February 2021. The recital includes Chorale Prelude on ‘Schmücke dich’ by Peter Hurford (1930-2019), Prelude & Fugue in E flat op. 99 no. 3 – Camille Saint-Saëns and W. A. Mozart's Adagio & Allegro in F minor/F major.

A full programme and notes is available below.

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Dewi Rees, Organ Scholar | Wednesday 10 February

In the first of our series of online organ recitals, our Organ Scholar, Dewi Rees, performs JS Bach's Prelude and Fugue in G BWV 541 and the Prelude, Sicilienne and Toccata from Maurice Duruflé's Suite op. 5.

A full programme and notes is available below.

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