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Founded in 1979, the British Music Society is dedicated to promoting and preserving Britain’s musical heritage with particular emphasis on 20th century composers through recordings, publications and events
Latest features & reviews
ENDLESS FASCINATION: The life & work of Thomas Pitfield
Born in Bolton in 1903, Thomas Pitfield was an almost exact contemporary of his fellow Lancastrian, William Walton. But he enjoyed none of the remarkable luck that saw Walton translated from Oldham to Oxford..
WALTON: Orchestral Works
The violin concerto is of course a superb work reflecting Waltons’ mood of the time when his new relationship with Lady Alice Wimborne was taking flight…
NARESH SOHAL: Lila; Violin Concerto
Lila is a cycle of seven connected movements and the Violin Concerto is in the three movements; these are major canvases by this wrongly overlooked master composer…
SHIFT: Works for Trombone and Brass Band
Simon Dobson’s three-movement concerto from 2012 entitled Shift… is a tremendously exciting work, the outer two movements being full of high energy and seemingly impossible scoring…
HAVERGAL BRIAN: Symphonies Nos. 29, 30, 31 & 32
The compact Symphony 30 is one of Brian’s most enigmatic. The only way to grasp this intense, dramatic, often violent music is to decode its densely-layered meaning bar by bar…
EDWARD COWIE: Rock Music (Piano Sonatas 1-3)
Do not be misled by the title Rock Music. It refers not to rock n’ roll music, but to piano music born out of rumination on different types of rock, rock out of which our planet is built…