Organ Recital and Q&A with David Briggs

Q & A @ 2pm with David Briggs and host Dr Jonathan James

Considered by many to be the greatest organist of modern times, David Briggs talks about his life in music and how he’s brought the symphonies of Elgar, Vaughan Williams and even Gustav Mahler into the organ repertoire through his toweringly virtuosic transcriptions.

Recital @ 3pm

Can one musician really do justice to a work originally written for an orchestra of 100 players? They can if their name is David Briggs, whose transcriptions of symphonic masterpieces by Mahler, Vaughan Williams and Elgar have astounded audiences worldwide. Briggs performs his stunning transcription of Elgar’s First Symphony alongside the master’s Organ Sonata and the evocative and beautiful Rhapsody by featured festival composer Ian Venables