Description
This issue has taken a slightly different turn to what I originally expected. We have remained with the Scandinavian theme: Heinrich Christensen offers a brief introduction to the subject and Hans Fagius takes a more in-depth look at Romantic Swedish music, whilst Anna Harwell Celenza focusses specifically on the life and music of Niels W. Gade and Arnfinn Tobiassen writes an excellent You Can Play This article. However, aside from the Scandinavian ‘theme’, S. Duckett has written an article about The Blenheim Palace organs, both the Willis and the Postill — the photography is excellent. Also, Andrew Kirk looks at life in a successful parish church and Karen O’Connor & Daniel Moult have written an article which should be compelling reading for all performers, amateur and professional alike — how to improve your performance, or as they term it ‘combatting musical performance anxiety’ a well-known feeling to everyone out there.
Although Iceland is not mentioned elsewhere in this issue, the cover is the Klais instrument in Reykjavik. The musical pull-out has been written by Fredrik Sixten.
Page 7: Scandinavian organ music Heinrich Christensen
Page 15: The Blenheim Palace organs S. Duckett
Page 23: Swedish Romantic organ music and its background Hans Fagius
Page 30: Drumbeat John Norman
Page 33: Niels W. Gade: The Cosmopolitan Dane Anna Harwell Celenza
Page 36: Scandinavian organ music discography Terry Hoyle
Page 38: Imagination triumphs where space is limited Paul Hale
Page 42: Danish delicacies Dr Helen Smith
Page 46: Music at St Mary Redcliffe Andrew Kirk
Page 52: NPOR — A register for the future José Hopkins
Page 57: Francis Routh: An appreciation at 80 David Herman
Page 62: Anthems alive Dr John Bertalot
Page 65: Combatting musical performance anxiety Karen O ’Connor & Daniel Moult
Page 69: You Can Play This Arnfinn Tobiassen
Page 75: CD reviews
Page 84: Music reviews
Page 91: Book reviews
Page 93: DVD review
Page 94: Association Reports
Page 97: Association News
Page 100: Letters
Page 103: Puzzles
