Tag Archives: Recording
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
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
Recording: Duruflé – Toccata
Before Wednesday’s recital at the Temple Church, I sat down at home to record the Duruflé Toccata. The Saxton pieces will appear on a recording of the entire cycle in due course. Below is a photograph with the composer, taken … Continue reading
Temple Recital – 3 London Premieres!
Dr Jonathan Clinch – Wednesday 28th February – 1:15-1:45pm PROGRAMME Diversion op.25, Francis Jackson (1917-2022) VII. Hymn (First performance), Robert Saxton (1953-) Tombeau for H.B., Robert Saxton Rosace (no.3 from Esquisses byzantines), Henri Mulet (1878-1967) Praeludium for pedals, Phillip A. … Continue reading
The Holly and the Ivy (Robert Saxton, 2023)
A second Christmas present from Robert Saxton! Premiered at King’s Sutton Parish Church on Christmas Day 2023 by Jonathan Clinch. This recording was made on Christmas Eve.
Merry Christmas!
New piece by Robert Saxton – Chorale Prelude on Holst’s ‘In the bleak midwinter’. This beautiful miniature takes Holst’s famous tune as a tenor in the left hand. It was premiered at the 9 Lessons and Carols service at King’s … Continue reading
Radio 4 broadcast – Music of the Gloucestershire Landscape. Howells, Gurney, RVW and Finzi…
Earlier in the year I climbed Chosen Hill outside Gloucester to talk to Rose Ferraby about the composers that found inspiration from that place – Herbert Howells, Ivor Gurney, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gerald Finzi. The finished programme will be … Continue reading
New Premiere Recording – Robert Saxton: Chorale Prelude on ‘Strength and Stay’
As part of Jonathan’s ongoing collaboration with Professor Robert Saxton, here is the latest recording. It’s a new chorale prelude on the tune ‘Strength and Stay’ by J B Dykes, written to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of … Continue reading
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