The organs


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The Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music (London)

Kuhn (2013), 45 stops. See specification & information

The following pieces were recorded on this organ:

  • J. S. Bach, Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt, BWV 637 (Window 1)

  • Dietrich Buxtehude, Passacaglia in D minor (Window 2)

  • Jehan Alain, Litanies (Window 5)

  • Gabriel Pierné, Prélude opus 29 (Window 7)

  • Petr Eben, “Zlaté okno” from Okna (Window 11)

All Saints, Margaret Street (London)

Harrison & Harrison (1910/1957/2002), 63 stops. See specification & information

The following pieces were recorded on this organ:

  • Jean Langlais, Chant de paix (Window 4)

  • Johannes Brahms, O Welt, ich muss dich lassen n° 11 op 122 (Window 8)

  • Louis Vierne, Arabesque opus 31 (Window 12)

Thank you to Hamish Wagstaff for access to the organ and advice on registration.

Notre-Dame-de-France church, Leicester Square (London)

August Gern (1868) / J. W. Walker & Sons (1938) / B. C Shepherd & Sons (1987/2010). 67 stops. See specification & information

There is a little chapel decorated by Jean Cocteau in the church.

The following pieces were recorded on this organ:

  • Olivier d’Ormesson, La cité des Limbes (Window 3)

  • Germaine Tailleferre, Nocturne (Window 6)

  • Éric Lebrun, Berceuse d’automne (Window 9)

  • Charles Tournemire, Communion from In Assumptione Domine (Window 10)

    Thank you to Anne-Lise Gaillac and Père Pascal Boidin for access to the church.