Bringing Britain’s musical heritage alive

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

Elaine Hugh-Jones dies aged 93

BMS member Elaine Hugh-Jones, a Welsh pianist, composer and an educationalist, has died aged 93.

Support sought for new composer films

Plans for two video documentaries on John McCabe and John Joubert have been announced by BMS.

New E J Moeran biography to be published

A long-awaited study of the life and music of Anglo-Irish composer Ernest John Moeran is to be published…

In Memoriam: Chris Bye

It is with much sadness that we inform members of Chris Bye’s death on March 8 aged 69 shortly after being diagnosed with cancer.

A Century of Music by British Women

A concert celebrated a Century of Music by British Women fon International Women’s Day.

Latest features & reviews

PHOENIX: Music for oboe/cor anglais

CD reviews

EM Records continue their outstanding support of tonal British music with this disc of British music for oboe/cor anglais and piano…

ROBERT SIMPSON: Symphonies 5 & 6

CD reviews

By the volcanic end I felt as if I had tottered off an exhilarating roller-coaster of a work, seemingly imagined and written at white heat…

COLLOQUY: Works for Guitar Duo

CD reviews

Colloquy, of course, means conversation and Phibbs’s delicately beautiful Serenade is just that, so where one guitar ends another begins…

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