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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 1h

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!

Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 12d

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

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 22d

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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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Sep 6

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!
@stchadsbirm.bsky.social
@rcbirmingham.bsky.social

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Sep 5

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.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Sep 2

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 🙂🎶

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Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social · Aug 27

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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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Aug 25

🎶 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.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Aug 19

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

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Aug 15

4/4 …Still to come: visiting recitalists Edmund Aldhouse from Ely Cathedral (Thur 21 Aug) and Victoria Ulriksen from Norway (Thur 28 Aug). Recitals start at 1.15pm and last 40 minutes. Admission free – all welcome!
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Thursday LIVE – Paul Carr

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Aug 15

3/4 …and the evergreen Prière à Notre-Dame from Boëllmann’s Suite Gothique for today’s Feast of the Assumption. The mighty Final from Guilmant’s Organ Sonata no.1 concluded the programme with the organ’s full resources in play…

Thursday LIVE – Paul Carr

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Aug 15

2/4 …his exquisite account of J.S. Bach’s Chorale-Partita: Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig.
One week later the Walker organ’s softer sounds were explored through the almost hypnotic stillness of Arvo Pärt’s Trivium in Paul’s programme…

Thursday LIVE – Paul Carr

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Aug 15

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…

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Aug 11

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

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Aug 6

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

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Aug 1

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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Archdiocese of Birmingham @rcbirmingham.bsky.social · Jul 29

The Jubilee Icon is back in the Archdiocese, at St Chad's Cathedral.

It will be in situ until Sunday 10 August.

The icon was first 'on tour' in the Archdiocese in January.

CAFOD commissioned the icon from artist Mulugeta Araya in Ethiopia, in order to celebrate and commemorate the Jubilee Year.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Jul 28

Not long to go now until the
🔸🔸Thursday Live Plus!🔸🔸
series begins in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social
An organ recital at 1:15pm every Thursday during August beginning with Professor David Saint, St Chad’s Cathedral’s Director of Music, playing on Thursday 7 August 2025.
Admission free, all welcome.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Jul 24

The latest release on the Thursday LIVE YouTube channel is David Saint playing Langlais’ Te Deum on the Walker organ in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham.
David plays the first ‘Thursday Live Plus!’ recital on August 7th at 1:15pm. Thursdaylive.org

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LANGLAIS Hymne d’Actions de grâces “Te Deum”

YouTube video by Thursday Live Organ Recitals

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Jul 5

Following TL this week an audience member writes:
‘This was an amazing and compelling performance on an instrument that so suited the music. Everything was so musically played, with clarity of line and attentive articulation. The final movement ended the recital with a dazzling display of bravura!’

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Jul 3

Come and hear Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social put the magnificent Walker organ in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social through its paces today at 1:15pm when he performs the monumental Symphonie VI by Louis Vierne.
Admission is free, the recital lasts around 40 minutes.
thursdaylive.org for more details.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Jul 2

The posts in the last 5 mins try to give you a flavour of the wonderful music by Louis Vierne (Organist at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris from 1900 to 1937) which Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social plays tomorrow, Thursday 3rd July 2025 at 1:15pm in St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham.
Come and hear it!

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Jul 2

The Final is one of Vierne’s most joyful compositions, full of energy with a timpani-like pedal part. Quieter, but still energetic sections present versions of the symphony’s two themes until the music builds to a wonderful climax with F sharp major pedal scales underpinning the blazing final pages.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Jul 2

Adagio opens with a B flat underpinning a version of the 2nd theme. The middle section is a fine example of Vierne’s characteristic lyrical style which develops the first theme. The movement ends in a solemn mood with the elements of the opening returning, though now they are mellow and distant.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · Jul 2

After a hazy few bars of introduction, the lyrical Aria features the Swell Trumpet developing the first theme, perhaps depicting a lazy day at the beach, and later evoking a Mediterranean sunset as the music eventually melts away.
(If you’ve no idea what this is about read the previous few posts!)

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