Organ Recital and Q&A with David Briggs (Elgar Festival 2025)

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Q&A, 2pm
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 a single musician truly 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 Sir Edward Elgar’s First Symphony alongside the master’s Organ Sonata and the evocative and beautiful Rhapsody by featured composer Ian Venables.

Saturday 31 May 2025

2:00pm

Great Malvern Priory