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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. 19 June 2014, 1:15pm - Robert will be playing a lunchtime organ recital on the new Dobson organ at Merton College Chapel. Click here to see the full programme, which includes works by Bach, Vierne and Duruflé as well as Robert's organ arrangement of Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever. One day later (20 June 2014, 1:15pm) he will be performing a piano recital of works by Händel, Schubert and Ireland at Somerville College Chapel. See the Facebook event for details.  19 February 2014, 12pm - Robert is playing a lunchtime recital on the 1897 Father Willis organ at Oxford Town Hall. Tickets are £4 and come with complimentary tea, coffee and biscuits. The programme will include works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Wesley, Reger, Gowers and John Williams. Please see the Facebook event page for further details.  14/16 March 2014 - Robert is playing the organ and harpsichord for two performances of Bach's St John Passion in Woodstock and Oxford. Both concerts will feature the Choir of Somerville College, the Musicians of the Dreaming Spires and soloists William Wallace (tenor - Evangelist), Simon Grange (bass - Christus), Rebecca Hardwick (soprano), Victoria Pym (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Doody (tenor) and Jerome Knox (baritone). Please see the choir website for further details. Tickets (£10) will be available on the door and through an online booking system.  1 February 2014, 4pm - Robert will be accompanying the Choir of Somerville College for a service of Choral Evensong at Coventry Cathedral. The music includes Edmund Rubbra's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in A flat, Herbert Howells' A Hymn for St. Cecilia and organ solo works by Louis Vierne.  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.
30 November 2013, 7:45pm - Robert performs alongside soloists Mary-Louise Aitken (soprano) and Thomas Guthrie (baritone) and the Choir of Somerville College in a concert at Douai Abbey. The programme includes Fauré's Requiem, a selection of seasonal anthems by Mendelssohn, Wood and Rutter as well as Messiaen's Joie et clarté.  9 November 2013, 7:30pm - Robert will be playing the organ and the piano for the 'Writing for Voices' concert at the University Church as part of the Britten in Oxford festival. He will be accompanying the Choir of Somerville College in works by Eric Whitacre and Daniel Saleeb.
Robert will also be playing the organ for the concert's finale, a celebratory performance of Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb featuring six choirs (including Schola Cantorum of Oxford) conducted by Nicholas Cleobury. The concert will be recorded by BBC Radio 3. 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.  Robert will be playing a recital of rarely heard twentieth-century works on the new Kenneth Tickell organ at Keble College Chapel on Thursday evening. The programme consists of Arvo Pärt's Annum per annum, the Adagio from Vierne's Organ Symphony No. 3 and Messiaen's L'Apparition de l'église éternelle. Admission is free. Please see the Facebook event page for more details.  |
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