The Grand Organ Of Coventry Cathedral

   in Choir & Organ (Sep, 2015)
Proof that 13 may not be an unlucky number after all comes in the form of this three-disc, tri-format offering from Priory. Generously including Blu-ray, DVD and CD, the 13th volume of its Grand Organ series turns the focus on Coventry Cathedral’s IV/88 Harrison & Harrison in fine style.

Designed for the cathedral’s consecration in 1962, the organ is a remarkable, robust and well equipped instrument clearly influenced by baroque voicing. It is characterised by a host of distinctive stops and effects, not least a diapason chorus on all its five divisions capable of producing an ‘echo effect that is rather disconcerting if you’re sitting in the middle of it,’ confesses …