houses two pipe organs, a smaller organ of 1978 in an Italian style by Tamburini and a larger organ of 1994 in a modernised English Classical style by Kenneth Tickell. Because it contains these organs, and especially because of its unique and reverberant acoustics, the Abbey Church is frequently used as a recording location by musical performers. Commercial albums recorded there include: Carlo Gesualdo - Tenebrae by The Hilliard Ensemble (March 1990). Pierre de la Rue - Missa Cum Iocunditate, Motets by The Hilliard Ensemble (1997). The Old Hall Manuscript by The Hilliard Ensemble (1990). Cristobal de Morales - Mass For The Feast Of St. Isidore Of Seville by the Gabrieli Consort & Players, directed by Paul McCreesh (2003). A New Venetian Coronation 1595 by the Gabrieli Consort & Players, directed by Paul McCreesh (2012). Handel Organ Concertos by Baroque Belles and David Willcocks (1999). MacMillan And His British Contemporaries by the choir of New College, Oxford (2006). Rutter: Requiem by the choir of Clare College, Cambridge (2003). List of Abbots 1900–1904: Lawrence Larkin 1904–1905: Ambrose Bamford 1905–1913: Stanislaus Taylor 1913–1921: David Hurley 1921–1929: Edmund Kelly 1929–1969: Sylvester Mooney 1969–1989: Gregory Freeman 1989–1990: Leonard Vickers 1990–1998: Finbar Kealy 1998–2022: Geoffrey Scott Gallery See also Douai, France Douai School English College, Douai English Benedictine Congregation References External links Douai Parish Website Photographs of the Abbey Christian organizations established in 1903 Benedictine monasteries in England Grade II* listed churches in Berkshire History of Berkshire Grade II* listed Roman Catholic churches in England Monasteries in Berkshire Monasteries of the English Benedictine Congregation Organisations based in Berkshire Roman Catholic churches completed in 1933 Roman Catholic churches in Berkshire 1903 establishments in England 20th-century Christian monasteries 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United Kingdom Woolhampton