The fifth in this year's Organ Recital Series at Salisbury Cathedral on Wednesday, August 23 at 7.30pm features James Vivian, the Organist of Temple Church and one of England's most sought-after young musicians, known equally for his outstanding interpretation of the solo repertoire as for his colourful and inventive accompanying.

His programme opens with Tournemire's Victimae Paschali, a masterly working of the great Easter plainsong taken from a set of improvisations Tournemire recorded which were later transcribed by his pupil Maurice Durufl.

One of Elgar's greatest and most effective marches follows: The Funeral March from Diarmid & Grania is described as a funeral march to rival those of Chopin, wonderful in its heroic melancholy with an immense sense of grandeur and heartfelt, tragic sadness.

Basil Harwood's Sonata 1, an unjustly neglected masterpiece of the English romantic repertory is performed next.

Tournemire wrote a complete set of music for every Sunday of the year, all based on plainsong, and L'Orgue Mystique Suite 51 - which includes a big setting of the Te Deum - is the music for the last Sunday.

Saint-Saens Le Cygne, familiar to all from his Carnival des Animaux, is heard next in an arrangement for organ solo.

James Vivian concludes his recital with Jongen's organ masterpiece, the spectacular Sonata Eroica.

Jongen, the most important musical personality and composer of his generation in Belgium, wrote several works for organ which reveal his keen ear for the colouristic possibilities of the instrument and needs an organist of great imagination and showmanship.

Daniel Cook, responsible for the organ recital series, is very much looking forward to James' visit to Salisbury.

"I clearly remember seeing James Vivian playing for King's College carol service when I was a boy and being very impressed by his assured brilliance," he said.

"It will be a real pleasure to welcome him to Salisbury."

Tickets £8.00 (concessions for children) at door.

The next recital in the Organ series will be given by Daniel Cook on Wednesday September 13 at 7.30pm.

His programme features Bach, Whitlock, Dupr, Messiaen and Reubke.