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This coming Saturday (28th June) Hope Metropolitan Singers and Orchestra are putting on a concert of light music at Ullet Road Church in Liverpool. Details about the concert, including how to obtain tickets can be found by following the QR Code below.

A couple of pieces of music from church this evening. First up is a new addition to my ‘St Paul of the Cross Little Organ Book’. It is a short trio saraband based on the hymn tune ‘Omni Dei’ from the hymn ‘Firmly I Believe’. The second recording is the voluntary at the end ofContinue reading “Trinity Sunday”

On Saturday 26th April, I played a new Fantasia on ‘This Joyful Eastertide’, written during the preceding week and dedicated to our parish priest, Fr John Schofield. Unfortunately there were technical issues with the recording I made, so I wasn’t able to post it. However, I returned to church today to re-recorded it – hereContinue reading “Easter Octave – Two More Hymn Prelude Recordings”

He is risen indeed, alleluia! Wishing you all Easter blessings of the risen Jesus. Here is the ‘Easter Flourish’ as promised in my post of 30th March, played at the end of the Easter Vigil at St. Paul of the Cross R.C. Church in Burtonwood. It is dedicated to my long time friend, Richard Lea,Continue reading “Easter Sunday 2025 – Paschal Joy!”

Yesterday (Saturday 29th March) I was fortunate to have some time to record some of the most recent additions to my ‘St Paul of the Cross Little Organ Book’ project on the Grand Organ of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. There are a few extraneous noises – the cathedral was open for visitors at the time –Continue reading “Holy Week from ‘St Paul of the Cross Little Organ Book’”

I was backing up some computer files earlier this week when I came across a recording I had made of my epic ‘Fantasia’ for Organ back in 2016. It needed a bit of ‘de-hissing’ – it had quite a bit of background noise – and there are one or three examples of dubious playing (!).Continue reading “Early Christmas Present – Fantasia for Organ”

Earlier this week I fulfilled a ‘bucket list’ dream of mine – to play the mammoth Organ Sonata of Julius Reubke on the Grand Organ of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. The instrument has always seemed to me to be ideally suited to the tonal demands of the music – even more so since its recent renovationContinue reading “Reubke Organ Sonata”

Earlier this evening I finished the first draft of a new choral piece for a concert at Liverpool Irish Centre in October. It’s a setting of the song ‘The Hills of Connemara’, all about the battle of wits between the illicit Poitin distillers and the excise men tasked with their elimination. It has been commissionedContinue reading “New Folk Song Setting”

On Tuesday 6th August I had the chance to play the organ of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. The playing was a little rough around the edges, but nevertheless here are the pieces I played. Enjoy! Three of my own compositions from my ‘St Paul of the Cross Little Organ Book’ project.

To celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi, a new addition to the ‘St Paul Of The Cross Little Organ Book’ – a toccata based on the hymn tune ‘Cwm Rhondda’, played after Saturday evening Mass. Find more music for the liturgical year at https://mikestubbscomposer.com/music-for-the-liturgical-year/.