This is a remarkable (and extremely rare) instance of late medieval church art made for an English endowed religious institution surviving to the present day

Nominations are now open for the 2026 Honorary Awards The RSCM annually confers diplomas & awards. Some are honorary; others are awarded as a result of academic study or other training. Find out more here: https://t.co/1CCHeqhVB1

#Sundaymusic this week is part four of my #EightShort #PreludesandFugues series and it’s Number 4, the F major, which is possibly the most overtly cheerful of the set. https://t.co/0Sl4mmDwxW

Very pleased to have been able to attend @RSCMCentre Celebration Day at Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford and honoured to receive the award of Associateship of the Royal School of Church Music. A great service of affirmation of all church musicians’ work.

More from Gloucester for this week’s #Sundaymusic. Here is Herbert #Howells’ reflective #PsalmPrelude Set 2, No 2, based on Psalm 139, verse 11: very Howells but with a dash of #VaughanWilliams in the mix! https://t.co/QGDnahh4h3

Some gentle music from Gloucester for this week’s #Sundaymusic – Herbert #Sumsion’s #Saraband and #Interlude. This makes a beautiful introduction/prelude to a Sunday morning service or for the signing at a wedding. Sumsion does write a good melodic line! https://t.co/HSLEzMunHW

This week’s #Suundaymusic is the third in my three weekly series of the “Eight Short” Preludes & Fugues once attributed to #Bach. The seventh in A minor is really something of a Fantasia and Fugue, the former being somewhat fragmentary in style. https://t.co/4KUcMDNzc3

Another gentle chorale prelude by Hubert #Parry for my voluntary at Choral Evensong at @stpetersfield is this week’s #Sundaymusic: ‘Eventide’, the tune for ‘Abide with me’, with a surprising syncopated little figure that runs throughout. https://t.co/Z5UIru6svY

François #Couperin was arguably the greatest #French #Baroque composer for the organ, yet left only two organ masses for the instrument. Here are the five movements of the #Kyrie from the one for the use of convents. https://t.co/OCe2YeRG7H

To round off August’s #Sundaymusic here is another of #Bach’s(?) Eight Short Preludes & Fugues, the second one in D minor. Unpretentious, but ‘does what it says on the tin’, as the slogan goes. https://t.co/g4hGr7AfDV

Celebration Day 2025 Christ Church Cathedral Oxford Sat 4 Oct Join us for our annual celebration to give thanks for the work of the RSCM & to present our Honorary Awards. Come & Sing Choral Evensong led by the Cathedral’s Director of Music Peter Holder https://t.co/craTxV5DRv

Today’s #Sundaymusic features one of the most beautiful melodies ever written: #Greensleeves. #VaughanWilliams memorably used it in his opera ‘Sir John in Love’, whence it was later arranged into the well-known #Fantasia of that name. https://t.co/RKwtuF6nsM

We are delighted to announce our Honorary Awards for 2025 Each year the RSCM Council confers Honorary Awards on those who have made outstanding contributions to church music Find the full list of 2025 honorands here https://t.co/KPGpXtwUyg

For those not enjoying the heat – and everyone else! – here is #Parry’s delightful #Chorale #Prelude on the tune #Martyrdom, “As pants the hart for cooling streams”, a beautifully placid piece of writing. https://t.co/X9FoDN5UzQ

Auctor Ignotus for this week’s #Sundaymusic, this, in G minor, is the sixth of the “Eight Short Preludes and Fugues” once attributed to #Bach. All sorts of names have been suggested without actual evidence, but it’s not worth worrying about really. https://t.co/yGMwxdyS5R

#Sundaymusic today is another transcription: #Bach arranging one of his own cantata movements to make a chorale preludes. “Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten” is one of the six #Schübler chorales. Just three stops needed to play this lovely little piece. https://t.co/a3eboP4eXx

Today’s #Sundaymusic is some #Haydn that the master probably didn’t compose but is by an admirer. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t matter, as it’s a delightful piece of string quartet music that suits the organ very well. https://t.co/bDLlrQZVQk

Many moons ago, Nokia pinched a four-bar snippet from Francisco #Tárrega’s Gran Vals for guitar to turn into a ring-tone. This is actually a set of short waltzes, so for this week’s #Sundaymusic here is my arrangement of the full piece for organ. https://t.co/Unlr2EaoCi

Some early #Baroque this week for my #Sundaymusic video - the Variations on Unter der Linden grüne by the Netherlandish master #Sweelinck. It’s a bright and breezy melody with variations to match in typical style. https://t.co/95evp7v3v4

The shops will, no doubt, soon be flogging Christmas wares, so here is the third of Cécile #Chaminade’s Quatre #Pastorales pour la Messe de Minuit – far too good to keep for just one day in the year! https://t.co/ZUd0n8F0di