Lunchtime Organ Recital - Charles Maxtone-Smith

Join us on Tuesdays at 1.15 pm throughout the summer for our Lunchtime Organ Recitals. Admission is free with a retiring collection and large-screen video projection is available at all concerts.

This week's recital is given by Charles Maxtone-Smith, Buckfast Abbey.

Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565	Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
L’Ascension i.    Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire à son Père     ii.    Alleluias sereins d’une âme qui desire le ciel iii.    Transports de joie d’une âme devant la gloire du Christ qui est la sienne iv.    Prière du Christ montant vers son Père	Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

Charles Maxtone-Smith is Organist of Buckfast Abbey, Devon. He is a prize-winning graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, with an MA Distinction, the DipRAM award, and the Advanced Diploma, as a student of Professors David Titterington, Bine Bryndorf, and Richard Pinel. He won the Musicians’ Company Award for Organists, which, from 2023 to 2025, provides generous funding for further study. He currently takes lessons with Christophe Mantoux at Saint-Séverin, Paris, studying French Baroque and Romantic repertoire. He was selected for the interpretation competition at the St Albans International Organ Festival in July 2023. He previously held organ scholarships at Hereford Cathedral, New College, Oxford, Westminster Abbey, Royal Hospital Chelsea, and King’s College, London. Since 2014 he has been one of the Festival Organists at the annual Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy, and has played for several BBC Radio 3 broadcasts.