Choir & Organ  |  July - Aug 2015
Maverick organ builder Peter Collins reflects on 50 years in the business and introduces his new instrument for St Albans International Organ Festival; we revisit the rich legacy of works commissioned by the Three Choirs Festival over the years, from Howells’s Hymnus Paradisi to John Joubert’s An English Requiem; and David Wordsworth argues for the dust to be blown off the choral works of neglected Italian composer Goffredo Petrassi. Plus, conductor David Hill’s advice for maintaining the energy of Handel’s Dixit Dominus; one of ‘Father’ Willis’s finest organs is meticulously restored in Brisbane City Hall; the delicate art of reconstructing Tudor partbooks; the Edinburgh International Festival Chorus at 50; reappraising the legacy of William Faulkes, England’s most prolific organ composer; our International Directory of Pipe Organ Builders supplement; and your chance to WIN tickets to St Alban’s International Organ Festival’s Interpretation Final.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Choir & Organ July - Aug 2015.