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Thursday LIVE Organ Recitals
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On the first Thursday in each month at 1:15pm in St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham (@stchadsbirm.bsky.social)
Paul Carr (@OrganistPaul.bsky.social)
David Saint & Guests.
Watch: https://www.YouTube.com/ThursdayLiveOrganRecitals
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William Harris’ Organ Sonata in A minor is November’s new video release on the Thursday Live YouTube channel.
@organistpaul.bsky.social plays the Walker organ in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social

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HARRIS Sonata in A minor for Organ, Paul Carr Organist
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November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Last Thursday’s @thursdaylive.org organ recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social which was performed by @organistpaul.bsky.social has been reviewed by one of the audience members.
Read it here:
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(Or in the screenshot ⬇️ )
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November 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Tomorrow, Thursday 6 November at 1:15pm, @organistpaul.bsky.social plays the next @thursdaylive.org organ recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social on the fantastic Walker organ.
Come and listen - admission free!
@rcbirmingham.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Thurs 6 Nov 2025, 1:15pm: @thursdaylive.org organ recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral B’ham.
Admission free.
Music by English and French composers including William Harris’ Organ Sonata and Saint-Saëns’ Marche Algérienne - distilled into a 1-minute video here to give you a taste!
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Be thou my vision

Zsolt Gárdonyi’s beautiful setting of the hymn tune Slane is this month’s YouTube video on our channel.
Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social plays the Walker organ in St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham @stchadsbirm.bsky.social

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GÁRDONYI Be thou my Vision, Paul Carr Organist
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October 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Join us at St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham @stchadsbirm.bsky.social for the next in our monthly recital series. Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social plays Harris’ Organ Sonata and other works on Thursday 6 November 2025 at 1:15pm.
Admission is free- not to be missed!
October 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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This Thursday, 2 October 2025, join us at @stchadsbirm.bsky.social for the free monthly @thursdaylive.org organ recital which this month will be given by Mark Brafield. The programme opens with Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in B minor.
Full programme below and further details at thursdaylive.org.uk
September 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Today at 1:15pm the final movement of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite - In the Hall of the Mountain King - will be released on YouTube. You can then watch the entire suite (Morning, Death of Ase, Anita's Dance and In the Hall of the Mountain King) here:

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GREIG Peer Gynt Suite, Paul Carr Organist - YouTube
Paul Carr plays the JW Walker organ in St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham. This playlist pulls together the movements of Grieg Peer Gynt Suite: Morning Death of ...
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September 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Thursday Live returns to the monthly pattern following our weekly ThursdayLivePlus! summer series.
The next recital will be given by Mark Brafield on Thursday 2 October at 1:15pm in St Chad’s Cathedral #Birmingham - free admission. All welcome!
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September 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Huge thanks to Nicholas Freestone who played September’s @thursdaylive.org recital today. Pictured post-recital with @stchadsbirm.bsky.social Cathedral Dean Canon Brian McGinley. A beautifully played programme which explored the organ’s many colours.
September 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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This Thursday, 4 September 2025 at 1:15pm in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham we welcome Nicholas Freestone (who is Assistant Director of Music at Worcester Cathedral) to play the Walker organ.
Admission is free
Full details at thursdaylive.org
All welcome 🙂🎶
September 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Tomorrow, Thur 28 Aug at 1:15pm in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham, come and hear Victoria Ulriksen play a 40-minute organ recital. I heard her rehearsal this evening and we’re in for a treat: musical, colourful and virtuosic playing of the highest order.
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August 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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🎶 Delighted to be welcoming Victoria Ulriksen to play as part of her extensive concert tour.
Victoria will play the last of this year’s weekly Thursday Live Plus! Organ Recitals in St Chad’s Cathedral this Thursday (28 August ‘25) @stchadsbirm.bsky.social
Not to be missed!
Admission free.
August 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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This Thurs 21 Aug at 1:15pm we welcome Edmund Aldhouse from @elycathedral.bsky.social to play this week’s Thursday LIVE Plus! Organ Recital @stchadsbirm.bsky.social.
Come and hear the fabulous Walker organ put through its paces in works by J.S.Bach, Marcel Dupré and James Mitchell.
Admission free
August 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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1/4 Thursday Live Plus! 2025: the weekly series during August is already at its halfway point following recitals on 7 Aug by Professor David Saint and 14 Aug by Paul Carr. Memorable highlights include the jazzy fireworks of Jean Langlais’ Fête played with customary panache by David, preceded by…
August 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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There is an organ recital in St @stchadsbirm.bsky.social every Thurs during Aug at 1:15pm.
This week 14 Aug @organistpaul.bsky.social plays works by Mozart, Dupré, Boëllmann, Part, Ireland & Guilmant.
Admission free
Retiring collection
All welcome
Full details here: paulcarr.co.uk/thursday-live-plus
August 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Thursday Live Plus! begins tomorrow with Professor David Saint playing Howells, Bach and Langlais on the fabulous Walker organ in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social .
Then during August there’s a recital EVERY Thursday!
Full details: paulcarr.co.uk/thursday-live-plus
All welcome!
@rcbirmingham.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Not long until @thursdaylive.org presents Thursday LIVE Plus! in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social - a recital every Thurs in Aug at 1:15pm. Most Fridays in August there is a guided tour of the Cathedral starting today at 10:30am and also on Friday 8 & 22 August.

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August 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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The Jubilee Icon is back in the Archdiocese, at St Chad's Cathedral.

It will be in situ until Sunday 10 August.

The icon was first 'on tour' in the Archdiocese in January.

CAFOD commissioned the icon from artist Mulugeta Araya in Ethiopia, in order to celebrate and commemorate the Jubilee Year.
July 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Not long to go now until the
🔸🔸Thursday Live Plus!🔸🔸
series begins in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social
An organ recital at 1:15pm every Thursday during August beginning with Professor David Saint, St Chad’s Cathedral’s Director of Music, playing on Thursday 7 August 2025.
Admission free, all welcome.
July 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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The latest release on the Thursday LIVE YouTube channel is David Saint playing Langlais’ Te Deum on the Walker organ in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham.
David plays the first ‘Thursday Live Plus!’ recital on August 7th at 1:15pm. Thursdaylive.org

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LANGLAIS Hymne d’Actions de grâces “Te Deum”
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July 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Following TL this week an audience member writes:
‘This was an amazing and compelling performance on an instrument that so suited the music. Everything was so musically played, with clarity of line and attentive articulation. The final movement ended the recital with a dazzling display of bravura!’
July 5, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Come and hear Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social put the magnificent Walker organ in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social through its paces today at 1:15pm when he performs the monumental Symphonie VI by Louis Vierne.
Admission is free, the recital lasts around 40 minutes.
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July 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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The posts in the last 5 mins try to give you a flavour of the wonderful music by Louis Vierne (Organist at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris from 1900 to 1937) which Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social plays tomorrow, Thursday 3rd July 2025 at 1:15pm in St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham.
Come and hear it!
July 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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The Final is one of Vierne’s most joyful compositions, full of energy with a timpani-like pedal part. Quieter, but still energetic sections present versions of the symphony’s two themes until the music builds to a wonderful climax with F sharp major pedal scales underpinning the blazing final pages.
July 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM