George Inscoe - Organ Recital

Date: Friday 30 April 2010

George Inscoe is a very talented young man: not only is he an ex-Head Chorister of the Canterbury Cathedral Choir, a goalkeeper for the St Edmund's Under 15 hockey team, and an off-spinner for the cricket XI, but he has, for the last two years studied the organ with Dr David Flood, and was invited to give his first organ recital in the Cathedral itself on Friday evening.

His programme, lasting for about half-an-hour, entertained a supportive and highly appreciative audience, including family, friends, visitors to Canterbury, and members of the regular Evensong congregation, who stayed on to hear George at play.

His programme included the familiar and the challenging, starting with C.S.Lang's 'Tuba Tune', visiting J.S.Bach (twice) and Mushel, before concluding with the mighty 'Suite Gothique' by Boellman. I particularly enjoyed his performance of Bach's 'Erbarm dich Mein, O Herre Gott', before the barnstorming Boellman.

George intends to reprise the recital in the summer at Barnet parish church, where his great-grandfather was the longest-serving organist of the twentieth century. As the programme notes suggested, music is in George's blood, and it is not surprising that he is an organist - he first sat on an organ stool at the age of one - he is now a ripe old 14! - when his father was organist at Banbury parish church. When's the next one in Canterbury going to be?