Robert Quinney plays JS Bach by Bach, J. S., De (2023/2023), South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom

The organist Robert Quinney devotes an entire evening to the uplifting and dazzling organ works of JS Bach. Quinney, director of the choir at New College Oxford, puts the Royal Festival Hall’s splendid organ through its paces in an evening devoted to the uplifting works of JS Bach. His programme features two of the composer’s most celebrated Toccata and Fugues, as well as two trio-sonatas, which show the composer’s more intimate approach to the organ. The recital concludes with the gigantic Passacaglia BWV.582. This is a chance to enjoy Bach at his most virtuosic, writing for the instrument at which he spent so much of his long life.