Bach, Dupre, Franck, Stanley, Messi: Plays The New Dobson Organ

   in Choir & Organ (May, 2014)
Hot off the press following recording dates in January this year comes this impressive introduction to Merton College, Oxford’s new Dobson Organ [see gallery, March/April issue], courtesy of resident music director and organist Benjamin Nicholas and the ever-enterprising Delphian.

Commissioned from the Lake City, Iowa-based Dobson Pipe Organ Builders to celebrate Merton’s 750th anniversary this year (an event to be marked by a five-concert festival between april and november), the iii/43 instrument – Dobson’s 91st and only the third American-built organ to be sent to the UK in the last seven decades – has already been heard on a Radio 3 broadcast of Evensong late last year, but this recital …