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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 03/10/2026

A fabulous @thursdaylive.org recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social by Tim Stewart who won IAO/RCO 2024 competition in @yorkminster.bsky.social. Reubke’s Sonata on the 94th Psalm, a virtuosic and demanding work was dispatched with aplomb and the extended applause from the audience was richly deserved.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 28/09/2026

This Thursday, 1 October 2026 at 1:15pm, The IAO 2024 Competition winner Timothy Steward plays October’s Thursday LIVE organ recital in St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham. Admission is free with a retiring collection. All welcome! @stchadsbirm.bsky.social @rcbirmingham.bsky.social

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 03/09/2026

Today, Sept 3 2026 at 1:15pm @organistpaul.bsky.social Paul Carr plays September’s @thursdaylive.org organ recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham. All welcome, free admission with retiring collection. @rcbirmingham.bsky.social

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 25/08/2026

This Thursday, 27 August 2026 at 1:15pm we welcome Stephen Disley to play the last of the ‘Thursday Live Plus!’ organ recitals in the August summer series. Admission is free with a retiring collection A warm welcome awaits!

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 18/08/2026

We’re really looking forward to Mélodie Michel’s recital this Thursday - 20 August 2026 1.15pm - in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social Mélodie has already played recitals in @westminsterabbey.bsky.social and @coventrycathedral.bsky.social this week on her début tour to the UK. @rcbirmingham.bsky.social

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 11/08/2026

Thurs 13 Aug 2026 1:15pm @organistpaul.bsky.social Paul Carr plays the next Thursday LIVE Plus! organ recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham. Paul will be joined by Cathedral Cantor Ed Harrisson for Olivier LATRY’s ‘Salve Regina’. Admission free

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 20/07/2026

The monthly series is extended this summer with an organ recital every 1:15pm Thursday in August at @stchadsbirm.bsky.social Admission free, retiring collection. 6 Aug: Käthe Wright Kaufman 13 Aug: Paul Carr 20 Aug: Mélodie Michel 27 Aug: Stephen Disley thursdaylive.org @rcbirmingham.bsky.social

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 02/07/2026

A wonderful recital from David Pipe today - mesmerising music by Glass, poised and beautifully phrased Franck, sublime Bach utilising the rich colours of the @stchadsbirm.bsky.social ’s organ and a joyful Carillon-Sortie to round off this month’s superb @thursdaylive.org

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 30/06/2026

A reminder that during August a recital will take place every Thursday - Thursday Live Plus! - and once again we are excited to be welcoming international performers. See below and thursdaylive.org for more details.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 30/06/2026

A warm welcome to @stchadsbirm.bsky.social this week for July's @thursdaylive.org Organ Recital as we welcome guest recitalist David Pipe, Organist of Huddersfield Town Hall. We look forward to seeing you. This month marks the 10th anniversary of thursdaylive.org recitals at St Chad's Cathedral.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 25/06/2026

A week today, on Thursday 2 July 2026 at 1:15pm, we look forward to welcoming David Pipe to play July’s @thursdaylive.org organ recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 05/06/2026

1/2 Thank you to Chris Totney - returning to his Midlands home-ground yesterday to play June’s @thursdaylive.org recital in St Chad’s @stchadsbirm.bsky.social Cathedral, which was enjoyed by a large audience. @rcbirmingham.bsky.social

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 01/06/2026

3/3 His programme, which includes the famous Suite Gothique by Boëllmann, is below 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Come and hear Chris at St Chad’s Cathedral’s fine Walker organ!

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 09/05/2026

Thursday’s recital, performed by @organistpaul.bsky.social, included Paul Spicer‘s ‘Suite for Organ’ - full of rhythmic energy, colour, and rich harmonies. We were delighted to welcome Paul Spicer to @stchadsbirm.bsky.social pictured here with Paul Carr and David Saint. @rcbirmingham.bsky.social

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 01/05/2026

May’s @thursdaylive.org organ recital is next Thursday, 7 May 2026 at 1:15pm, and features a programme of music by living composers. @organistpaul.bsky.social plays the organ in St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham. Programme ⬇️ and full details at thursdaylive.org Admission free with retiring collection.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 07/04/2026

This Thursday, 9 April 2026 - a week later than usual, at 1:15pm in St Chad’s Cathedral @stchadsbirm.bsky.social. We regret that Stephen Disley, who was due to play, is indisposed so Thursday’s recital will be a revised programme of music for Easter performed by Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social .

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 02/04/2026

No @thursdaylive.org organ recital today @stchadsbirm.bsky.social - April’s recital is a week later than usual to avoid Holy Week. Join us next week when Stephen Disley will perform. Thursday 9 April 2026 at 1:15pm. All welcome! thursdayLive.org @rcbirmingham.bsky.social

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 03/03/2026

🔸This Thursday, 5 March 2026🔸Professor David Saint, Director of Music at @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham, plays the 1:15pm Thursday LIVE Organ Recital. Admission is free with a retiring collection. 🆓 ⬇️ Programme ⬇️

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 06/02/2026

1/4 Yesterday’s @thursdaylive.org organ recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social was a variation on the usual format: the slightly extended programme of requests submitted by the audience was performed by all four Cathedral Organists and used all three Cathedral organs 🎹.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 02/02/2026

This Thur 5 Feb 2026 1:15pm @stchadsbirm.bsky.social: a programme of pieces requested by the audience. Come and hear Cathedral Organists David Saint, Paul Carr, Nigel Morris and John Pryer in this hour-long programme. Featuring all 3 of the Cathedral’s organs. Admission free - retiring collection.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 01/01/2026

It’s the first Thursday of the month BUT January’s @thursdaylive.org organ recital is a week later than usual this month, so we hope to see you on Thursday 8 January at 1:15pm in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social when @organistpaul.bsky.social will play the first recital of the 2026 season. thursdaylive.org

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 10/12/2025

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! thursdaylive.org

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 05/12/2025

1/2 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.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 01/12/2025

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

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 11/11/2025

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 ⬇️ ) @rcbirmingham.bsky.social @positivelybrum.bsky.social

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 05/11/2025

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

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 11/10/2025

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!

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 29/09/2025

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 · 06/09/2025

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 · 05/09/2025

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 · 02/09/2025

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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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 25/08/2025

🎶 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 · 19/08/2025

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 · 11/08/2025

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 · 06/08/2025

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 · 28/07/2025

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 · 05/07/2025

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 · 03/07/2025

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 · 02/07/2025

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 · 02/07/2025

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 · 02/07/2025

The Scherzo from Vierne’s sixth symphony is both rhythmically and harmonically more developed than any of Vierne’s earlier examples – after a bizarre, rhythmically-charged opening the symphony’s first theme appears with a completely transformed character as Vierne depicts the grins of gargoyles.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 02/07/2025

Vierne’s sixth symphony is based on two themes. The first theme is introduced in the third bar of the agitated introduction. The second theme appears in the slow section, which follows on the second page. Both themes are then developed throughout the highly chromatic and fiery Allegro movement.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 02/07/2025

Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social plays Vierne’s sixth Symphony in its entirely on Thursday 3 July at 1:15pm in St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham. @stchadsbirm.bsky.social. Maurice Duruflé premiered the work in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris in June 1934. It is in 5 movements and lasts around 40 mins.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 01/07/2025

Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social plays Louis Vierne’s Symphonie VI in its entirety this Thursday 3 July 2025 at 1:15pm in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social Vierne’s last important composition, his sixth symphony, was written in the summer of 1934 while staying in Menton on the Mediterranean coast.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 26/06/2025

This time next week, Thursday 3 July 2025 at 1:15pm, @organistpaul.bsky.social Paul Carr will be performing the whole of Louis Vierne’s Symphony no 6 in B minor as part of the @thursdaylive.org series in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham. Admission is free! thursdaylive.org

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 05/06/2025

A brilliant recital by Paolo Oreni at @stchadsbirm.bsky.social today. After virtuosic performances of Bach and Liszt Paolo created a stunning improvisation on a submitted theme, Veni Creator Spiritus, in which an incredible kaleidoscope of colour and sound cascaded from the instrument.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 04/06/2025

Tomorrow, Thursday 5 June at 1:15pm Italian Concert Organist Paolo Oreni starts his UK concert tour with @thursdaylive.org in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral. Not to be missed! Full details: thursdaylive.org

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 27/05/2025

Thursday, 5 June at 1:15pm, Italian international concert organist Paolo Oreni plays the next @thursdaylive.org organ recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham. Not to be missed! Free admission.

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 13/05/2025

The next @thursdaylive.org organ recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social Birmingham is on June 5th at 1:15pm and will be given by Italian virtuoso organist Paolo Oreni. The programme includes one of his legendary improvisations - not to be missed!

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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals @thursdaylive.org · 01/05/2025

A wonderful recital today by three students from @royalbirmcons.bsky.social Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Organ Department. Piotr Maziarz opened the programme with a beautifully poised rendition of Mendelsohn‘s sixth organ Sonata.

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