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Early Music @ Newcastle: Tudor-Style Organ Recital
Early Music @ Newcastle: Tudor-Style Organ Recital
3rd March @ 1:05 pm - 1:45 pm
Newcastle University’s annual festival, Early Music @ Newcastle, offers an exciting programme of early music to audiences in the North East.
Join us for recitals on the Tudor-style Wetheringsett organ, commemorating the tercentenary of Orlando Gibbons (pictured).
- Monday 3 March, 1:05pm – David Smith
- Monday 17 March, 1:05pm – Magnus Williamson
Attendees will be encouraged to sit in the Quire, which provides the best location for listening to the Wetheringsett Organ.
The Wetheringsett Organ, currently on loan to Newcastle Cathedral from the Royal College of Organists, was built by the organ builders Goetze & Gwynn in 2002. It is a speculative reconstruction of an English organ of around 1530, based on the soundboard found in recent years at Wetheringsett in Suffolk.
Recitals are free to attend, with a retiring collection (suggested donation £5). Please consider donating, either in person or online.
Click here to make a regular or one-off donation.
Visit our Organ Recitals page to view the music programme before each recital.
For details of the 2025 Early Music @ Newcastle festival, please visit www.ncl.ac.uk/events/live-music/upcoming or download the programme from here 2025 Early Music @ Newcastle brochure.
