#ThrowbackThursday
Ruth Byrchmore's wonderful piece for OrgelbüchleinProject
Five years ago in Westminster Cathedral.

The stilettos aren't in the score btw.

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Royal Academy of Music

APRIL FEATURE: Robert Saxton’s ‘Wo Gott zum Haus nicht gibt sein Gunst’, played by Dr Jonathan Clinch. You can hear the chorale melody cascading down from the top storey of the house to the basement. Available in Volume 4 of Orgelbüchlein Project.
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Pleasing review in the Organ Journal (in German).

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An historical marker representing the beginning of the 21st century: William Whitehead introduced his Orgelbüchlein Project @orgelbuchleinP as part of my recent interview:
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We feel this is an indicator that Volume 1 is shortly to appear.

MARCH FEATURE:

William Fox plays Cecilia McDowall’s Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält

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The next WorcesterOrganists event is at Pershore Abbey on their new Ruffatti organ. An Orgelbüchlein workshop with works from the OrgelbüchleinProject led by WOA committee member Michael Bacon.

Pieces from the project to be heard at Peterhouse, Cambridge, 17th Feb.

JANUARY FEATURE:

Tom Winpenny plays #FrancisGrier ’s beautiful contribution to the project, Wir haben schwerlich. This would have been the 75th chorale in Bach’s Orgelbüchlein, and is available to buy in Volume 3 of the project.

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Me in hotels: So that’s Herr Christ up to Das alte Jahr on the left, In dir ist Freude to Herr Gott nun schleuß on the right. I’m pretty sure I’m in Wir Christenleut. #Bach #Niche #CantRememberNumbersAnyMore

Happy Christmas to all our followers!

#VomHimmelHoch BWV 606 #Chapuis

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One of the youngest contributors to the project, Arthur Togneri, has written this setting of Wer nur den lieben Gott. He finished last Summer as a chorister Choir of Westminster Abbey. Congratulations Arthur - we look forward to hearing more from your pen in due course! orgelbuechlein.co.uk/arthur-togneri…

'Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam' by Jonathan Dove (world premiere at the Royal Albert Hall BBC Proms 2017 played by William Whitehead) youtu.be/McWtrNPLGYo?si…

If nothing else, the Orgelbüchlein Project has sparked much thought and debate about what the essence of Bach’s Orgelbüchlein is. Brief, functional preludes for liturgical use, or an experimental textbook for miniature compositional design?

Some nice tunes tomorrow, including Cecilia McDowall’s OrgelbüchleinProject piece, and Thomas Trotter’s fab arrangement of Coates’s Knightsbridge March.

Excited to be part of the Hamburg complete Orgelbüchlein this weekend Stiftung Johann Sebastian, along with 18 other organists. Here is a short introduction from me and Andreas Fischer, Organist at the Katharinenkirche (Bach famously played here in 1720). Come one, come viele Leute!