May 2010

The new issue of Organists' Review includes the usual range of articles and after two issues featuring organists, May's focus is on instruments. The cover shows the beautifully crafted new case at Old Headington.

● This month's issue opens with Christopher Stembridge's follow-up article on Frescobaldi
● Benjamin Saunders writes about the extensive resoration at Leeds Cathedral
● Dr Roy Massey returns with an article about a successfully transplanted instrument
● John Kitchen has recently been working on a project to record the organs of Edinburgh, and he explains its origins and how this project progressed.
● Paul Hale salutes the return of highly ornate cases before David Shuker, in his BIOS column, asks 'What have organ builders ever done for us?'
● John Bertalot writes his final article for OR
● Unusually, and sadly, this issue of OR also includes two obituaries: Alan Thurlow writes about IAO Honorary Member, Stanley Vann, and D'Arcy Trinkwon contributes a highly personal obituary to the sadly-missed Alan Wicks.
● Corinne Hepburn's Organ Forum continues in this issue.
● The centre-page spread is the beautifully ornate St Mary the Virgin, Wellingborough.
● The musical insert is Christopher Maxim's To God who gives our daily bread
● The centre-page spread is of the organ at Peterborough Cathedral, where Stanley Vann (hundredth birthday) spent almost a quarter of his career
● As usual, this issue includes CD/DVD, Music and Book reviews and Local Association News

The August 2010 issue of Organists' Review
coincides with the anniversary of Samuel Sebastian Wesley's birth. We are therefore very pleased that Dr Peter Horton will be writing an article about the man himself, Martin Clarke will be providing an article about S.S.Wesley's antecedents and that Dr Ian Bradley has been researching Wesley's hymn tunes.