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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
FREAK OUT: Extraordinary Music for Organ
The final piece on the CD Black Host instructs the performer to Freak Out (from whence the title of the CD) to ‘Go ape’ and to ‘Detonate’…
DEDICATION: Clarinet Chamber Music
Interest in the music of Ruth Gipps is clearly increasing. I suggest the reason for this is that there is an appetite for the less well-known…
BRITISH OBOE QUINTETS
The disc is beautifully recorded throughout and has very useful booklet notes by Mervyn Cooke and Nicholas Daniel…
CRÉPUSCULE
Production is in every way up to the usual high standards of the label: the final result is 77 minutes of vivid listening pleasure…
DE PROFUNDIS CLAMAVI: Piano works
This typically adventurous double-CD (packed with première recordings) opens with a 1938 Sonata from Birmingham’s Christopher Edwards…
EDWARD ELGAR: Where Corals Lie
This is a delightful and finely performed collection of music and poetry which for much of the 20th century was out of fashion…