Organ music from various centuries

This recording was made in spring 2022. I'm playing a minuet and trio by Austrian composer & organist Matthias Georg Monn (1717-1750) on the 1911 Bernhard organ.

Here I'm playing an untitled piece, tempo: Andante, in G major by Ann Mounsey Bartholomew (1811-1891) on the 1911 Bernhard organ. Stops are: Flûte harmonique 8', Salicional 8', Gedackt 8', Flauto dolce 4', Violon 8', Subbass 16'

This video was recorded at the 1858 Keller organ in October 2020. I had started working on the organ sonata in D major H.86/Wq. 70/5 by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) at that time and while you need at least two manuals for the first and th...

Playing "Diapason Movement" in F major by John Keeble (1711-1786) on the 1858 Keller organ. Stops: 8' Gedackt & 4' Flöte

Emma Louise Ashford (1850-1930): Allegretto in G major 1858 Keller organ

In 2016, Italian contemporary composer Carlotta Ferrari published six "Danze all'antica per strumento a tastiera". This video is the third in a small series of three videos and I'm playing two dances: Bassadanza Tarantella The organ is a 19...

In 2016, Italian contemporary composer Carlotta Ferrari published six "Danze all'antica per strumento a tastiera". This video is the second in a small series of three videos and I'm playing two dances: Estampie Furlana The organ is a 1970 S...

In 2016, Italian contemporary composer Carlotta Ferrari published six "Danze all'antica per strumento a tastiera". This video is the first one in a small series of three videos and I'm playing two dances: Saltarello Contraddanza The organ i...

Here I'm playing a prelude and fugue in C major by Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663-1712) on the 1858 Keller organ.

Justin Heinrich Knecht (1752-1817): Cantabile (Larghetto) Video recorded at the 1911 Bernhard organ in November 2021.

This recording of "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten" (If thou but trust in God to guide thee) by Johann Balthasar Kehl (1725-1778) was made in autumn 2022 at the 1858 Keller organ. It is one of my favourite hymns and here I'm using the 8' Sal...

This prelude on "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten" (If thou but trust in God to guide thee) by Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780) from the first part of the "Clavier-Übung" is one of my favourite pieces and when I started playing the organ in my...

This is the third movement from the harpsichord sonata in b minor op. 2/5 by Anna Bon di Venezia (born 1738). It works quite well on the organ, too. I'm playing the 1858 Keller organ using the 8' Gedackt.

There aren't a lot of organ pieces by Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée (1841-1929) that are suitable for small organs, but this fugue in f minor is one of them. I'm playing the 1858 Keller organ. Recording was done using a Fairphone 5 and Zoom H2n.

Here I'm playing a "Meditation" in D major by Emma Louise Ashford (1850-1930) on the 1911 Bernhard organ. Video was made with a Fairphone 5, audio was recorded with a Zoom H2n.

I'm delighted to share this "work in progress" with you. The piece is a fugue by Italian contemporary composer Carlotta Ferrari, using the theme of Ethel Smyth's "March of the Women". I play this on the 1911 Bernhard organ and there are still a f...

Here I'm playing "Melody" by Ella S. Robinson on the 1911 Bernhard organ. I have no idea (yet) who Ella S. Robinson was, where she worked, when she lived. I found the piece in "The Organist" and it was first published in 1903. Should anyone hav...

This calm chorale setting is part of the Neumeister manuscript, but whether Johann Michael Bach or someone else wrote it isn't known (yet). So I'm listing the composer as "Anonymous" for the time being. The recording was made in autumn 2022 at th...

Here I'm playing a march in C major by an anoymous composer from the 18th century on the 1858 Keller organ. The piece was published in 1785 in a collection of various organ pieces.

This video was made in autumn 2021 during a warm-up session for a recital at the lovely Tenneberg castle in Waltershausen in Thuringia. I'm playing the second movement of an organ concerto by an anonymous composer from the 18th century on the 172...