Andrew Forbes is joined by violinist Kirsty Main to perform on the 1857 (I/P) organ by Robert Postill. This organ has a particularly rare and special place in the Scottish organ ecology but remains all but unknown. Robert Postill was a prolific organ builder in York from 1835 onwards but his sphere of influence extended only sporadically outside his immediate area of activity. His arrival as an organ builder coincided with the adoption of the so-called ‘German system’ in British organ building, most obviously evidenced by the adoption of C-compasses and the fully-fledged principal chorus, even in smaller organs. A single-manual instrument of 11 stops, including a full principal chorus terminating in a four-rank tierce mixture, the organ is, unusually, entirely enclosed in a swell box and includes a most unusual stop, the earliest surviving example of the hybrid wooden/metal flute Philomelia.

Programme to include Heinrich Biber, Theophania Cecil, Franz Liszt, Matthew Camidge and Edward Elgar.