Organists' Review Magazine December 2023 Zurück Ausgabe

Readers will remember Sarah MacDonald’s personal account of learning the Goldberg Variations BWV 988 on the piano as a lockdown project (December 2022 edition).
The concert organist Dr Eleni Keventsidou offers a stimulating account of the musical and personal legacy of the great Italian virtuoso Fernando Germani (1906- 98), while organist and musicologist Dr Katharine Pardee considers the fascinating question of Bach’s legacy and reputation in nineteenth-century England. A significant figure in this, of course, is Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-47), who is also the major figure in Martin Holmes’s account of the organ music collections in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Our ‘In conversation’ piece
this issue is with the English-born US-based organist and scholar Professor Annette Richards who shares some of her insights not least into eighteenth-century music and the Gothic. A very different kind of Gothic is present in the article convened by David Pipe, our own Deputy Editor, about how the organ (the Willis in Huddersfield
Town Hall, in this case) can play a surprisingly powerful role in music by two doom metal bands. Don’t say we are not bringing a wide perspective on the organ in this issue!