Tag Archives: Recording
Winter Solstice – Out 21st December
Robert Saxton’s Winter Solstice is out on Sunday, the next single from ‘The Reckoning of Time’. The music proportionally reflects the short day in contrast to the long night (light and dark).
Saxton: Two Violin Arrangements
…in my end is my beginning… This solo violin work was written for Peter Sheppard Skaerved – a New Year palindrome based on letters in his name, which references the final line of ‘East Coker’ within the Four Quartets of … Continue reading
Saxton: Pavane & Galliard (2025)
Jonathan’s latest recording explores a new Pavane & Galliard by Robert Saxton. As with the recent Cooke upload, this performance explores the expressive potential of incorporating aspects of Renaissance technique and style into a Tudor-inspired composition, playing with the tension … Continue reading
Awakening – Robert Saxton – Out Today
Awakening: Prelude, symbolically concerned with dawn and new beginnings.
Robert Saxton – Meditation on the Autumn Equinox – Out 22nd September.
The next movement in Robert Saxton’s cycle, The Reckoning of Time. For me, the music and season will always be associated with Shakespeare’s 73rd Sonnet… Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold That time of year … Continue reading
Robert Saxton – Toccata of Light
Out August 6th – Toccata of Light – the third movement of Robert Saxton’s organ cycle, ‘The Reckoning of Time’. Written for, and performed by, Dr Jonathan Clinch. The 10 movement organ cycle, inspired by the Venerable Bede’s treatise from … Continue reading
Howells’ Organ Sonata – Performance inspired by G. D. Cunningham.
11th July 2025 91 years ago today, on 11th July 1934, George Dorrington Cunningham (‘G D’ – then City Organist of Birmingham) gave the first broadcast performance of Herbert Howells’ ‘Sonata for Organ’. George Thalben-Ball (a former pupil of Cunningham) … Continue reading
Clip: Toccata of Light, Robert Saxton
A short preview of Robert Saxton’s Toccata of Light. Out 6th August. Movement 3 of ‘The Reckoning of Time’.
Coming soon – Robert Saxton: Awakening
A clip from the opening of ‘Awakening’, movement one (of ten) from ‘The Reckoning of Time’ by Robert Saxton, dedicated to Jonathan Clinch.
Dr Jonathan Clinch 