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2018 Tour Recordings

7/1/2020

 
The first nine live recordings from Robert's summer tour are now available on YouTube:

Maria-Magdalenen-Kirche, Templin, Brandenburg
Organ: Alexander Schuke (1994)
  • Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988): Martyrs: Dialogues on a Scottish Psalm-tune, op. 73 (with Bertie Baigent)

Fürstenwalde Cathedral (Dom St. Marien), Brandenburg
Organ: Alexander Schuke (1966/2005)
  • Arvo Pärt (born 1935): Annum per annum

St.-Gertraud-Kirche, Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg
Organ: Wilhelm Sauer (1878)
  • Bertie Baigent (born 1995): A quiet pavan, with canons
  • Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): O Gott, du frommer Gott, op. 122/7

St.-Marien-Kirche, Pirna, Saxony
Organ: Friedrich Nikolaus Jahn/Hermann Eule (1842/1979)
  • Donnacha Dennehy (born 1970): Work for Organ

Christuskirche, Dresden-Strehlen, Saxony
Organ: Jehmlich (1904)
  • Edward Elgar (1857-1934): Sospiri, op. 70 (arr. Arthur Wills)
  • Herbert Howells (1892-1983): Saraband in modo elegiaco (from Six Pieces for Organ)
  • Max Reger (1873-1916): Benedictus, op. 59/9
  • Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986): Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Cyril Scott, op. 69

Another track is currently being edited and will be added to the channel over the course of the next few months.

The Complete Sacred Choral Music of Alice Mary Smith

6/8/2019

 
In June Robert played the 1913 Walker organ at St Saviour’s Church, Richmond Hill, Leeds, for the Eoferwic Consort's new recording of the complete sacred choral works of Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884), one of the most prolific female composers from the Victorian period.

The recording is based on newly published scholarly edition of Alice Mary Smith's choral music by Leonard Sanderman. The project was funded the AHRC, through the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities. For further information as well as PDF files of the scores, please see Leonard Sanderman's website. 

Robert accompanied the following three tracks:

  • Out of the Deep
  • O praise the Lord
  • By the waters of Babylon

The complete album is also available for streaming on SoundCloud.

2017 Tour Recordings

11/1/2018

 
Live recordings from Robert's fourth recital tour to Germany are now available on YouTube:
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St.-Jacobi-Kirche, Sangerhausen, Saxony-Anhalt
Organ: Zacharias Hildebrandt (1728)
  • Guy Bovet (born 1942): Salamanca
  • Samuel Wesley (1766-1837): Variations on Rule Britannia, KO 620

St.-Georgen-Kirche, Glauchau, Saxony
Organ: Gottfried Silbermann (1730)
  • William Byrd (1543-1623): The Queenes Alman
  • Maurice Greene (1696-1755): Voluntary in D minor

Tour Recordings

20/9/2016

 
A selection of live recordings from Robert's summer tour has now been uploaded to YouTube:

  • Frank Martin: Agnus Dei - St.-Nicolai-Kirche, Döbeln (3 August 2016)
  • Percy Whitlock: Fanfare (from Four Extemporisations) - Christuskirche, Dresden-Strehlen (8 August 2016)
  • Bertie Baigent: proud rock/bright sky - Christuskirche, Dresden-Strehlen (8 August 2016
  • Olivier Messiaen: Apparition de l'église éternelle - Predigerkirche, Erfurt (9 August 2016)
  • Ralph Vaughan WIlliams: Rhosymedre - St.-Johannis-Kirche, Dessau (11 August 2016)
  • Guy Bovet: Hamburger Totentanz (from Trois Préludes Hambourgeois) - Meißen Cathedral (13 August 2016)
  • Simon Preston: Alleluyas - Meißen Cathedral (13 August 2016)
  • Herbert Howells: Preludio 'Sine nomine' - Herderkirche, Weimar (14 August 2016)
  • Herbert Howells: Paean - Herderkirche, Weimar (14 August 2016)
  • Max Reger: Variations and Fugue on Heil dir im Siegerkranz/God Save the King - Herderkirche, Weimar (14 August 2016)
  • Noel Rawsthorne: Hornpipe Humoresque - St.-Georgen-Kirche, Schwarzenberg (15 August 2016)

New Live Recordings

5/9/2015

 
The first two live recordings from Robert's summer tour are now online: Bach's Pièce d'orgue, played on the 1872 Ladegast organ in Köthen, and Alastair Putt's Toccata, played on the Jahn/Eule organ in Pirna.

Please see the video page for more of Robert's live recordings.

CD Release

30/3/2015

 
Today Robert's first solo CD, a portrait of the Franz Liszt Memorial Organ at the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Weimar, was released by the classical CD label JUBAL.

A more detailed article about the album and an interview with Robert can be found on the Somerville College website.

Click here for more information and full track listings. The CD is available for purchase from Amazon UK.
Die Franz-Liszt-Gedächtnisorgel in Weimar

Live Recordings from Germany

14/2/2015

 
The first live recording from Robert's summer tour has been uploaded to YouTube: Bach's Prelude in C minor played on the 1735 Silbermann organ of the St.-Petri-Kirche, Freiberg (Saxony).

Additional recordings (including works by Mendelssohn, Sweelinck, Boyce, Byrd and Gowers) will be added to the YouTube channel over the next few weeks.

Vierne Recording

22/6/2014

 
A live recording of the fourth movement of Vierne's Organ Symphony No. 3 in F-sharp minor (op. 28) has just been uploaded to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGMcukPiDTQ.

The video was recorded at Merton College Chapel last week and features the Merton's new Dobson organ.

BBC Radio 3

8/12/2013

 
Today at 4pm BBC Radio 3 will broadcast a live recording of Daniel Saleeb's Psalm which features Robert playing the Metzler organ of the University Church. The programme will be available for download or streaming via iPlayer.

New CD: Advent Calendar

4/11/2013

 
Robert can be heard playing the new Kenneth Tickell organ at Keble College Chapel on Somerville College Choir's new CD. This musical advent calendar from Oxford University's leading mixed-voice college choir is the ensemble's second release on the Stone Records label, following a highly successful recording of Duruflé’s Requiem and Milford’s Mass for Five Voices. 

The beautifully-presented album is a countdown to Christmas of 24 tracks (with a bonus track for Christmas Day) featuring wonderful performances of some of the best-loved carols of all time, and a handful of première recordings that will delight all classical music lovers. Each Advent Sunday is marked by a Bach chorale, and the listener is guided through Advent, as the excitement builds for the arrival of Christmas Day. The track list includes favourite carols by Rutter, Warlock, Poston, Gardner, Cornelius, Goldschmidt and Wood as well as newly commissioned works by Toby Young, Raymond Head and Paul Sartin (member of the folk band Bellowhead).

The Choir of Somerville College, conducted by David Crown, is joined by guest soloists Mary-Louise Aitken (soprano) and Jeremy Carpenter (baritone), who was most recently seen in the Royal Opera House's production of Britten's Gloriana. The CD also features Douglas Knight (organ) and Keith Fairbairn (percussion).

The album will be released on 4 November 2013 (UK) and 12 November 2013 (USA and all other countries). Advent Calendar is available for purchase from Amazon UK, Amazon US, Presto Classical, Stone Records and Blackwell's Music (Broad Street, Oxford). Please see Robert's discography for a full track list.
The Choir of Somerville College at Keble Chapel
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