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Organ Recitals
St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham
First Thursday of each month

1:15pm – 1:55pm

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Thursday 7 August 2025 at 1:15pm DAVID SAINT

Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Rhapsody in C sharp minor

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig BWV 768

Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
Suite Brève: Cantilène
Fête


Thursday 14 August 2025 at 1:15pm PAUL CARR

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Fantasie in F minor K.608

Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
Choral et Fugue

Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897)
Suite Gothique: Prière à Notre Dame

Arvo Pärt (b.1935)
Trivium

John Ireland (1879-1962)
Miniature Suite for Organ: Villanella

Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
Sonata no. 1 in D minor: Final


Thursday 21 August 2025 at 1:15pm EDMUND ALDHOUSE

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Fantasia and Fugue in C minor BWV 537

Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
Offrande à la Vierge
   Virgo Mater
   Mater dolorosa
   Virgo Mediatrix

James Mitchell (b.1997)
Festival Toccata


Thursday 28 August 2025 at 1:15pm VICTORIA ULRIKSEN

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) [arr. Kåre Nordstoga]
Holberg Suite: Praeludium

J.S. Bach (1685-1750) [arr. Martin Schmeding]
Concerto for 4 Harpsichords in A minor after Vivaldi BWV 1065
Allegro; Largo; Allegro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) [arr. Martin Haselböck]
Fantasie in F minor K.594
Adagio; Allegro; Adagio

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) [arr. Edwin C. Lemare]
Danse Macabre

Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Suite Op.5: Toccata


TL 2025 PROGRAMME LEAFLET 3 panel SIDE 2 revised
TL 2025 PROGRAMME LEAFLET 3 panel SIDE 1 revised
TL 2025 POSTER revised


From September 2020 to September 2021 short recitals were broadcast on the Thursday Live YouTube channel on the first Thursday in each month at 1:15pm, replacing the live recitals during the Coronavirus pandemic. Visit the channel to view the individual pieces from each of these recitals.

We continue to produce videos. Check the Thursday Live YouTube channel for new releases.


Full biographies of all Thursday Live recitalists are available at each recital.


All of the programmes from the start of the series in 2008 are listed here.


40-minute Organ Recitals St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham
Every Thursday in August at 1:15pm.

For full programmes click here


J.W. Walker & Sons 1993

Great
Bourdon 16
Open Diapason 8
Gamba 8
Open Flute 8
Octave 4
Harmonic Flute 4
Super Octave 2
Grave Mixture II
Mixture IV
Cornet V
Trumpet 8
Swell to Great
Positive to Great

Swell
Salicional 8
Voix Celeste 8
Chimney Flute 8
Principal 4
Tapered Flute 4
Gemshorn 2
Mixture IV
Bassoon 16
Trumpet 8
Oboe 8
Clarion 4
Tremulant

Positive
Stopped Diapason 8
Principal 4
Flute 4
Nasard 2 2/3
Fifteenth 2
Flageolet 2
Tierce 1 3/5
Larigot 1 1/3
Sharp Mixture IV
Cremona 8
Tremulant
Swell to Positive

Pedal
Open Diapason 16
Subbass 16
Octave 8
Bass Flute 8
Super Octave 4
Mixture IV
Ophicleide 16
Trumpet 8
Positive to Pedal
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal

6 pistons to each division and 6 general pistons. Multiple banks of 96 channels with memory-card access.


Postcode:

B4 6EU

By train:

Birmingham Snow Hill. St Chad’s is 5 minutes away via the platform-level St Chad’s and St Paul’s exit, which emerges in Livery Street. After exiting, turn right then immediately right again under the bridge, then over the crossing. St Chad’s is now in front of you.

By metro:

St Chad’s This recent exit brings you out with St Chad’s in front of you, negotiate the pedestrian crossings and you’re there.

Car parking:

Cathedral car park with limited parking, accessed from Shadwell Street.
Disabled parking bay in front of the Cathedral (3 hours maximum).
A large car park is also available at Snow Hill station.
It should also be noted that the Cathedral is now within the Birmingham Clean Air Zone and charges may apply. More here…

On foot:

St Chad’s is a short walk from Colmore Row. With the Town Hall behind you continue past the entrance to Snow Hill station and turn left along Snow Hill Queensway, passing the large One Snowhill and Two Snowhill office blocks, downhill to St Chad’s.


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40-minute organ recitals throughout the year on the first Thursday of each month at 1.15pm

St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham
St Chad’s Cathedral
St Chad’s Queensway
Birmingham B4 6EU

1.15pm-1.55pm

Admission free, retiring collection.

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