Programme
Bovet
Hamburger Totentanz
Smyth
Schwing dich auf zu deinem Gott
Du Mage
Récit (from Suite du premier ton)
Mendelssohn
Allegretto from Sonata No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 65 No. 4
Demessieux
Te Deum, Op. 11
Biography
Richard Moore has entertained audiences across the globe, from North America to Australia and New Zealand, as well as throughout Europe. Concerto appearances have included Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Organ with Percussion Orchestra (collaborating with conductor Thomas Søndergård), and amongst recent recording projects is a first recording of Elizabeth Poston’s Te Deum, and the premiere of Philip Moore’s devotional sequence Via crucis.
Richard is Sub-Organist at Christ Church, Oxford, where he articulates the liturgies of the Cathedral and is Deputy Conductor of the world-renowned Cathedral Choir. A prize-winning graduate of the Royal College of Music, he also read Music as Organ Scholar of St John’s College Oxford. Having been Organ Scholar at St Paul’s Cathedral, he went on to roles at St Martin-In-the-Fields, and Guildford Cathedral, where, with the choirs, he regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4.
About the Thursday Organ Recitals
The Thursday Organ Recitals are a series of 30-minute lunchtime concerts held in the College chapel. They centre on the College’s organ, installed in September 2024 by the Belgian firm Orgues de Facto, a 15-stop instrument conceived in the sound-world of the original William Hill organ of the late nineteenth century.
The recitals offer an opportunity to hear the instrument across a range of repertoire in the context for which it was designed.
Ticket information
Free event – no registration required
FAQs
Organ recitals at Brasenose College are played on the chapel organ built by Orgues de Facto (Belgium) and installed in 2024. The instrument is constructed in the English Romantic tradition of William Hill and is housed in the restored T. G. Jackson case of the original 1892 organ; the west-facing façade pipes from Hill’s instrument, which had become non-speaking in later versions, have been re-lengthened and returned to speaking use.
A full specification and stoplist is available via the National Pipe Organ Register (NPOR).
The organ comprises Great, Swell and Pedal divisions. The Great provides the principal chorus and trumpet; the enclosed Swell offers flute, string and reed colours with tremulant; and the Pedal supplies bass, flute and reed registers.
The complete specification and stoplist for the Brasenose College Chapel organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register (NPOR).