#Mothering #Sunday, also known as #Laetare or Refreshment Sunday, so a bit of light Victorian pomp in the form of Henry #Smart’s March in G. Does exactly what it says in the title, and a few years before Elgar! youtube.com/watch?v=tq2FoN…

It is Passion Sunday this weekend and so #Mendelssohn’s Third Organ #Sonata would seem apt, with its first movement being based on the chorale “Aus tiefer Not” (Out of the deep [Psalm 130]). Both movements are in this longer than usual #Sundaymusic video. youtube.com/watch?v=QdWKs3…

This weekend it is #Palm #Sunday, which not only commemorates Jesus’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem on a donkey but also looks ahead to his #Passion on #Good #Friday, so here is the chorale version of the #Agnus #Dei from #JSBach’s #Leipzig chorales. youtube.com/watch?v=hF4pMc…

Something for Good Friday: Pachelbel’s two settings of the Passion Chorale. youtube.com/watch?v=XUjq-A…

The 2025 Petersfield Musical Festival hit the jackpot! - mailchi.mp/42463b3745f3/p…

A very Happy #Easter to everyone! Not a fanfare to celebrate it this year, but #Howells’ #Sarabande for the Morning of Easter. This is a piece I’ve been thinking of recording for some time but have at long last got round to it. I hope you enjoy it! youtube.com/watch?v=tNB514…

Here’s an earworm for the 2nd Sunday of Easter: the #Waltz from #Shostakovich’s #Suite for Variety Orchestra (not the Jazz Suite!). It works very nicely on the organ and simply sails along à la #Strauss. youtube.com/watch?v=O7Mowr…

Six of the best in the form of six minutes of beautiful #coloratura #Bach: the first of the three #Leipzig settings of “Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr”. The artistry and invention in this are simply wonderful. youtube.com/watch?v=gIXZ1M…

Music by one of #Fauré’s and #Gigout’s teachers for this week’s #Sundaymusic, Clément #Loret, a composer not often heard now. In his Cours d’Orgue are three #Études, of which this is the second, a cantabile aria in D minor. youtube.com/watch?v=zEu4qn…

Music from the South German master Georg #Muffat this week: #Toccata Septima from the wonderfully named Apparatus Musico-Organisticus. Typical of the time, late 17th Century, it is in multiple contrasting sections, some fantasia-like, others fughettas. youtube.com/watch?v=_l-bfx…

Pure schmalz for this week’s #Sundaymusic: the ever-popular #Intermezzo from #Mascagni’s #Cavalleria Rusticana. This is a frequently requested piece and I have recorded it at home to take advantage of the greater subtleties of my Viscount Organs organ. youtube.com/watch?v=oUDZKm…

An evergreen for this week’s #Sundaymusic: the second movement, #Largo, of #Dvořák’s New World Symphony, arranged by Frederick Shinn. Dvořák’s initial tempo is somewhat faster than it is generally played, giving a rather different effect..! youtube.com/watch?v=k-lFgG…

As it’s now in the public domain, I can say how delighted and honoured I am to have been awarded ARSCM in the latest announcement by RSCM Centre, coincidentally fifty years since I first got involved in church music.

Frank #Bridge is the composer of this week’s #Sundaymusic at St Peter's Petersfield. This is the first piece, Allegretto grazioso, from his Six Pieces for Organ, a lovely #Pastorale movement. youtube.com/watch?v=UqdYSk…

George Thalben-Ball was born on June 18, 1896, so for this week’s #Sundaymusic I have recorded his well-known #Elegy, dedicated to his predecessor at the Temple Church, Henry Walford Davies. youtube.com/watch?v=gxes4m…

Some #French #Baroque this morning from one of the less fêted of the era, André #Campra. Here are the two #Rigaudons from #Idoménée. Volume up for this, especially for the central #Trio. youtube.com/watch?v=6q3wu-…

#JSBach meets the USA today in Virgil #Fox’s arrangement of parts of Cantata 79, including the chorale “Nun danket alle Gott”. It works well on the Viscount Organs Ouverture, with the #Tuba reset as #Mirabilis! youtube.com/watch?v=fOCpZi…

The shops will, no doubt, soon be flogging Christmas wares, so here is the third of Cécile #Chaminade’s Quatre #Pastorales pour la Messe de Minuit – far too good to keep for just one day in the year! youtube.com/watch?v=1UQskQ…

Some early #Baroque this week for my #Sundaymusic video - the Variations on Unter der Linden grüne by the Netherlandish master #Sweelinck. It’s a bright and breezy melody with variations to match in typical style. youtube.com/watch?v=S3q9fs…

Many moons ago, Nokia pinched a four-bar snippet from Francisco #Tárrega’s Gran Vals for guitar to turn into a ring-tone. This is actually a set of short waltzes, so for this week’s #Sundaymusic here is my arrangement of the full piece for organ. youtube.com/watch?v=yCZinH…