Choir & Organ Magazine October 2019 Retour à l'édition précédente

Göteborg International Organ Academy celebrates its 25th anniversary; Jonathan Dove helps amateurs and professionals to find their voices through choral works and community opera; the Swedish Radio Choir demonstrates its prowess in a new recording of Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem; and a visit to Goetze & Gwynn’s workshop reveals a new chamber organ in 17th-century German style and an 1860s Black Forest Orchestrion.

Plus, the Echo choir bridges the gap between performers and audiences; reports from St Albans International Organ Festival and the Three Choirs Festival; exploring issues in restoring historical instruments with two organ projects by pupils of Schnitger; David Hill considers how the careful positioning of singers can improve your choir’s sound; the final instalment in our series on chamber organs in Australia; Longwood winner Sebastian Heindl; and our free supplement examines courses in organ studies and church music at colleges, conservatoires and universities around the world