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New Piece! Dialogue for Organ, Phillip Cooke
I’m thrilled to have received a new organ work by Phillip Cooke, Professor of Composition at Aberdeen University. Here it is (from a quick live run-through yesterday)… Composer’s Note… Dialogue takes the ‘Sanctus’ of my 2017 work Missa Sancti Albanus … Continue reading
New upload: Lennox Berkeley TOCCATA from Westminster Cathedral
Lennox Berkeley’s majestic Toccata from his Three Pieces opens with mysterious and wild figurations, quite unlike any other organ toccata. It goes on to incorporate dance elements and, after a more reflective contrapuntal section in the middle, returns to the … Continue reading
Playing Howells: The Paean Problem
I recently tried an experiment. I downloaded a metronome app that allowed me to use presets and programmed it for the various tempos in Herbert Howells’ 1940 ‘Paean’ for organ. I then practised a lot, recorded a performance, and posted … Continue reading
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TALK: Beverley Bound
New Paths Music Dr Jonathan Clinch returns to Beverley to consider how we listen to British music – at a time when the very notion and identity of Britishness is a divisive topic. Drawing on ideas from Charles Stanford in … Continue reading
Recording: Howells at HIS speeds
Herbert Howells’ Paean for organ (written in May 1940) has notoriously fast metronome markings, which few organists follow. As an experiment, I’ve practised A LOT and tried to follow them… The recording was made using the 2010 Metzler organ of … Continue reading
Publication: Performing Vaughan Williams
Jonathan’s book chapter on issues in the performance of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams is out now. Clinch, Jonathan. “Performance.” Chapter. In Vaughan Williams in Context, edited by Julian Onderdonk and Ceri Owen, 86–92. Composers in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, … Continue reading
Blog: Easter Howells – Six Pieces and Sarabands
Around this point in Holy Week, organists around the world will be searching for their copies of Herbert Howells’ Six Pieces for organ. The second of these — Saraband (For the morning of Easter) — is very popular and this … Continue reading
Jonathan joins Multitude of Voyces
I’m delighted to join the board of trustees for Multitude of Voyces – the charity behind the recent ‘Anthology of Sacred Music by Women Composers’, spearheaded by their Founding Director, Louise Stewart. Multitude of Voyces specialises in supporting underrepresented and … Continue reading
Britten in Aldeburgh
A quick pilgrimage. Aldeburgh beach in full ‘Grimes’ mode.
Jonathan Clinch 