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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals
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On the first Thursday in each month at 1:15pm in St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham (@stchadsbirm.bsky.social)
Paul Carr (@OrganistPaul.bsky.social)
David Saint & Guests.
Watch: https://www.YouTube.com/ThursdayLiveOrganRecitals
Visit: thursdaylive.org
David Saint and Paul Carr introduce the 2026 season of @thursdaylive.org recitals in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social Birmingham.
The first recital of the season is on Thursday 8 January at 1:15pm.
(A week later than usual!)
We hope to see you at St Chad’s Cathedral during 2026.

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Thursday Live Organ Recitals 2026
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December 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
December’s release on the @thursdaylive.org YouTube channel is @organistpaul.bsky.social Paul Carr playing Keith Chapman’s ‘Bring a torch, Jeanette, Isabella!’ on the Walker organ of @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham.

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CHAPMAN Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella! Paul Carr Organist
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December 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The 2026 season of @thursdaylive.org organ recitals begins on 8 January - a week later than usual to avoid New Year’s Day.
All of the programmes for each month are now available!
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December 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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The 2025 season at #StChads was a Thursday afternoon monthly oasis. Where you could find music that was enchanting, majestic and joyful. And ultimately uplifting, imagine what 2026 has in store for us!
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2025’s season of Thursday LIVE organ recitals was brought to a stirring conclusion yesterday with Professor David Saint and Paul Carr taking it in turns to put the Walker organ of St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham through its paces with music for Advent and Christmas.
December 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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2025’s season of Thursday LIVE organ recitals was brought to a stirring conclusion yesterday with Professor David Saint and Paul Carr taking it in turns to put the Walker organ of St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham through its paces with music for Advent and Christmas.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This Thursday, 4 December 2025 at 1:15pm, David Saint & Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social play the final Thursday LIVE in the 2025 season at St Chad’s Cathedral. @stchadsbirm.bsky.social
A programme of organ music for Advent and Christmas.
Admission is free, all welcome.
@rcbirmingham.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Thu 4 Dec 1:15 PM

Thursday LIVE

Organ Recital - Paul Carr (@organistpaul.bsky.social) and David Saint.
#JSBach, Louis-Claude #Daquin – Noel Suisse and other Christmas themed items.

At St Chads Cathedral, Birmingham (@stchadsbirm.bsky.social)
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Classical Events: Thursday LIVE
Another great concert from ClassicalEvents
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December 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
William Harris’ Organ Sonata in A minor is November’s new video release on the Thursday Live YouTube channel.
@organistpaul.bsky.social plays the Walker organ in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social

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HARRIS Sonata in A minor for Organ, Paul Carr Organist
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November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Last Thursday’s @thursdaylive.org organ recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social which was performed by @organistpaul.bsky.social has been reviewed by one of the audience members.
Read it here:
www.paulcarr.co.uk/reviews/
(Or in the screenshot ⬇️ )
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November 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Tomorrow, Thursday 6 November at 1:15pm, @organistpaul.bsky.social plays the next @thursdaylive.org organ recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social on the fantastic Walker organ.
Come and listen - admission free!
@rcbirmingham.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Thurs 6 Nov 2025, 1:15pm: @thursdaylive.org organ recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral B’ham.
Admission free.
Music by English and French composers including William Harris’ Organ Sonata and Saint-Saëns’ Marche Algérienne - distilled into a 1-minute video here to give you a taste!
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Be thou my vision

Zsolt Gárdonyi’s beautiful setting of the hymn tune Slane is this month’s YouTube video on our channel.
Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social plays the Walker organ in St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham @stchadsbirm.bsky.social

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GÁRDONYI Be thou my Vision, Paul Carr Organist
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October 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Join us at St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham @stchadsbirm.bsky.social for the next in our monthly recital series. Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social plays Harris’ Organ Sonata and other works on Thursday 6 November 2025 at 1:15pm.
Admission is free- not to be missed!
October 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This Thursday, 2 October 2025, join us at @stchadsbirm.bsky.social for the free monthly @thursdaylive.org organ recital which this month will be given by Mark Brafield. The programme opens with Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in B minor.
Full programme below and further details at thursdaylive.org.uk
September 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Today at 1:15pm the final movement of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite - In the Hall of the Mountain King - will be released on YouTube. You can then watch the entire suite (Morning, Death of Ase, Anita's Dance and In the Hall of the Mountain King) here:

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GREIG Peer Gynt Suite, Paul Carr Organist - YouTube
Paul Carr plays the JW Walker organ in St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham. This playlist pulls together the movements of Grieg Peer Gynt Suite: Morning Death of ...
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September 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Thursday Live returns to the monthly pattern following our weekly ThursdayLivePlus! summer series.
The next recital will be given by Mark Brafield on Thursday 2 October at 1:15pm in St Chad’s Cathedral #Birmingham - free admission. All welcome!
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September 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Huge thanks to Nicholas Freestone who played September’s @thursdaylive.org recital today. Pictured post-recital with @stchadsbirm.bsky.social Cathedral Dean Canon Brian McGinley. A beautifully played programme which explored the organ’s many colours.
September 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
This Thursday, 4 September 2025 at 1:15pm in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham we welcome Nicholas Freestone (who is Assistant Director of Music at Worcester Cathedral) to play the Walker organ.
Admission is free
Full details at thursdaylive.org
All welcome 🙂🎶
September 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Tomorrow, Thur 28 Aug at 1:15pm in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham, come and hear Victoria Ulriksen play a 40-minute organ recital. I heard her rehearsal this evening and we’re in for a treat: musical, colourful and virtuosic playing of the highest order.
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August 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
🎶 Delighted to be welcoming Victoria Ulriksen to play as part of her extensive concert tour.
Victoria will play the last of this year’s weekly Thursday Live Plus! Organ Recitals in St Chad’s Cathedral this Thursday (28 August ‘25) @stchadsbirm.bsky.social
Not to be missed!
Admission free.
August 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
This Thurs 21 Aug at 1:15pm we welcome Edmund Aldhouse from @elycathedral.bsky.social to play this week’s Thursday LIVE Plus! Organ Recital @stchadsbirm.bsky.social.
Come and hear the fabulous Walker organ put through its paces in works by J.S.Bach, Marcel Dupré and James Mitchell.
Admission free
August 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
1/4 Thursday Live Plus! 2025: the weekly series during August is already at its halfway point following recitals on 7 Aug by Professor David Saint and 14 Aug by Paul Carr. Memorable highlights include the jazzy fireworks of Jean Langlais’ Fête played with customary panache by David, preceded by…
August 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
There is an organ recital in St @stchadsbirm.bsky.social every Thurs during Aug at 1:15pm.
This week 14 Aug @organistpaul.bsky.social plays works by Mozart, Dupré, Boëllmann, Part, Ireland & Guilmant.
Admission free
Retiring collection
All welcome
Full details here: paulcarr.co.uk/thursday-live-plus
August 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thursday Live Plus! begins tomorrow with Professor David Saint playing Howells, Bach and Langlais on the fabulous Walker organ in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social .
Then during August there’s a recital EVERY Thursday!
Full details: paulcarr.co.uk/thursday-live-plus
All welcome!
@rcbirmingham.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Not long until @thursdaylive.org presents Thursday LIVE Plus! in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social - a recital every Thurs in Aug at 1:15pm. Most Fridays in August there is a guided tour of the Cathedral starting today at 10:30am and also on Friday 8 & 22 August.

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August 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM