The second of four Summer Organ Recitals in St Machar’s Cathedral was given by Ronald Leith, Organist of St Mary’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Huntly Street and Assistant Organist of St Machar’s Cathedral, Old Aberdeen
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Bas Westerhof
Bas Westerhof comes from Koog aan de Zaan, a suburb of Amsterdam. He plays regularly at the Church of the Apostolic Society, Zaanstad Region, Amsterdam. Being on holiday in the Aberdeen area, he offered to give a recital on the Willis Organ of St Machar’s Cathedral in Old Aberdeen.
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Gabriel Faure
Sunday 12th November being Remembrance or Armistice Sunday, Fauré’s Requiem was an ideal
choice of work for this, the first of two Autumn Concerts in St Machar’s Cathedral. It is attractively
tuneful throughout, reflectively gentle and comfortingly positive too, bringing together emotions...
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Kamil Mika
Last week’s recital by Bas Westerhof fascinated me because it included Organ Symphonies by French Composers who were aiming to use the organ in an orchestral manner. Today’s even more astonishing recital by Kamil Mika took that idea well beyond what we heard last...
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Young Musicians from Aberdeen
Before Sunday afternoon’s concert featuring talented young musicians from Aberdeen City Music School, Dr Roger B. Williams MBE welcomed the young performers to the Cathedral...
