Bach Complete Organ Music Audio File to Download

Organists will like this:- The Big Bach Download

(It does what is says on the cover!)

Cool Cats Do Research Online (Whittaker Library can help)

If you are in your second or third year studying BMus, or third year BEd, at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, you've probably got assignments due at the end of the week.

Need help with your assignment?

Sadly, we can't write it for you!  However, there's plenty of help from the Library if you're frankly a bit short on content for your assignment. Come to the Library to consult us, or take a look at our e-resources.
All these possibilities (and more) are yours at the click of a button, via the library website:-

• OxfordMusicOnline
• Jstor (back copies of music journals online)
• E-books in the library catalogue
• Our e-Books page offers more bulk collections from different publishers
• Streamed music (Naxos and Alexander Street Press)
• Classical scores library - maybe you could source quotes for your essay here?
• Individual e-journals - try Eighteenth Century Music for your assignment about Bach and rhetoric, for example.

There are various pages you can look at from the library website. Use your usual login if you're off-site. Take a look, visit us, or try LibraryChat on the catalogue homepage during library opening hours. 

We are the exceptionally helpful Whittaker Library, here to help our performing arts community with their library and information needs.

Professor John Butt Plays Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues

Das Wohltemperierte Klavier

When we got word that John Butt, Music Professor at the University of Glasgow, had released a new CD set of Bach's forty-eight preludes and fugues, it seemed only right that we should get it for the Whittaker Library.  John Butt is an eminent Bach scholar and performer.

So here is the CD, ready for borrowing! DETAILS

DID Bach's wife have a hand in the cello suites?

Can You Trust What the Papers Say?

Reported in the Daily Mail, a scholar's suggestion that Anna Magdalena Bach might have written the cello suites!  

Do you believe it?  Can you?  READ HERE, if you're curious!

If you're nervous about trusting what you read in a popular newspaper, a Conservatoire colleague suggests you may prefer to read it in the Telegraph, HERE.


The sceptical amongst us quite rightly ask whether something you read in a newspaper is trustworthy at all.  Can you trust something that has been reduced to an attention-grabbing headline?  Would you quote it in an essay?  (Probably not.)  When was the research done, and by whom?

On this occasion, you can relax a bit, because the original paper was delivered at an Australian university a couple of years ago:-

"Mrs Bach and the Cello Suites" - the paper Martin Jarvis delivered in 2012.

Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

• Book by conductor John Eliot Gardiner - highly reputable name, fantastic title - and the content looks excellent.  
• Ordered by Whittaker Library for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
• Anticipation running high!  Watch this space - here's where you'll find it when it arrives and is catalogued ... NEW BOOKS AT THE WHITTAKER LIBRARY

Norwegian archival recordings for Easter

Anyone with a liking for historical recordings - audible bumps, scratches and all - may enjoy this offering from the archivists at the Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound:-

'The Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound (NIRS) follows up the great feedback we got over the last few years for our musical Advent Calendar with more old, old… old  recordings, for the second edition of our Easter Musical Calendar!

Every day from Palm Sunday until Easter Monday. we will present a vintage recording from 1942 (!), with its original historical noises, where legendary singers and musicians interpret St Matthew’s Passion.

Do you wish to receive a daily reminder with the day’s link(s)? – just answer this email! and/or you can also “like” our Facebook page and thereby get notifications from there.'

Alasdair Young lunchtime piano concert Bearsden Cross, 19th February 2011

Saturday 19th February 2011, at 11.30 am

Lunchtime Recital by pianist Alasdair Young.