THE ORGANIST'S DAUGHTER

A nice review from Gillian Reynolds in The Daily Telegraph:

Radio drama has its own voice, of course, one with the power to take you anywhere. Monday’s Afternoon Drama last week, The Organist’s Daughter by Stephen Wyatt, was just such a play. Simon Russell Beale, the National’s most-daringly versatile actor, played Buxtehude, the great German Baroque organist. Emma Fielding, who began her distinguished career with the BBC Radio Drama Company, played his clever daughter. Would he succeed in marrying her to one of the candidates to succeed him, Bach (Karl Davies) or Handel (Joseph Kloska)? I won’t say. It’s bound to be repeated, a piece that will catch your ear, your inner eye and, unexpectedly, your heart.