Sightseeing Entry

Featuring the Cathedral’s resident organists and guests.

Free and un-ticketed, with a retiring collection.

All recitals start at 18:15 in the Cathedral Quire, after 17:30 Evensong.

Friday 7 March 2025
Ed Gaut, Keble College, Oxford - See bio and programme

Edward Gaut is the Senior Organ Scholar at Keble College, Oxford, accompanying the college choir for their weekly services, under the direction of Christian Wilson. In his time at the college, he has also played for a radio broadcast and toured to Scandinavia, as well as participating in the yearly Keble Early Music Festival.

Ed is also Master of Music at Pusey House, Oxford – an Anglo-Catholic chapel and library – directing the octet of choral scholars and playing for services. A particular highlight of his time here was organising the music for an orchestral High Mass with the Oxford Baroque Players, featuring Haydn’s Paukenmesse. He is organist to the Campion Hall, Oxford (a Jesuit private hall of the University), too. Ed is an undergraduate in his final year of a Music degree.

He studies conducting with Will Dawes and organ with David Ponsford (as part of the Oxford-RAM scheme), having previously studied organ with Adrian Bawtree and Stephen Farr. He is an Associate of the Royal College of Organists. Before going up to Oxford, he spent a year at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Anne Page and David Titterington.

A keen singer, he is a part of the early music ensemble, Antiquum Documentum, which puts on concerts and liturgical reconstructions. The most recent of these was a High Mass and Procession for the Presentation of the Lord according to the use of Salisbury (Sarum), in St Bartholomew the Great, London. This is part of a series of such services, working through English liturgies from the high Middle Ages to the Civil War; the next one will take place in the summer.

Programme

I: Allegro Maestoso from Organ Sonata in G major
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Tiento de secondo tono por gesolreut sobre la Letanía de la Virgen
Pablo Bruna (1611-1679)

Dic Nobis Maria (intabulation after Bassano)
Heinrich Scheidemann (1595-1663)

Prelude in E minor “the Great”
Nicolaus Bruhns (d. 1697)

Three Preludes on French Hymns
Derek Healey (b. 1936)

I: Christe Sanctorum
II: Picardy
III: O Quanta Qualia

Excerpts from Sept Pièces
Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)

II. Souvenir
VII. Final