The Organ Podcast
The Organ Podcast is a fortnightly show designed to inform and entertain organists and organ enthusiasts alike, including those who are simply curious and want to know more about this unique instrument and its music.
Episodes will feature interviews with leading UK and international organists, visit historic or little-known organs of interest, catch-up with organ rebuilds and restorations, and encounter a diverse mix of pipe organ related activities, news, discussions and initiatives from around the UK.
Presented by Mark O'Brien
The Organ Podcast
Episode 19 - Completing Bach's Orgelbüchlein with William Whitehead & Rediscovering Victorian organs with Tom Bell
William Whitehead talks about his major international project aimed at completing Bach's Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book) - The Orgelbüchlein Project. With 118 missing chorale preludes, where only the chorale titles have been penned by Bach, William plays examples of the newly finished compositions which he has commissioned from leading composers all over the world.
Orgelbüchlein Volumes & Scores
William Whitehead
Tom Bells reveals his passion for English Victorian organs as he demonstrates the art of registering 19th century repertoire on the historic 1864 Henry Willis organ at Reading Town Hall.
Henry Willis Organ at Reading Town Hall
Organ specification (NPOR)
Tom Bell
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