Following the cancellation of this year’s International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in Harrogate due to the pandemic, a new online streaming service – G&S Opera TV – has been launched to ensure visitors could still enjoy their annual fix of...
The excellent BMS CD of piano music by Herbert Howells and performed by Matthew Schellhorn has been receiving fantastic reviews in the music press online. Here are a few extracts from the reviews published – don’t forget you can buy the CD online. “I...
With so many concerts on hold, it is good to hear of recording projects around the country. One is of two new song recordings released online by soprano Lucinda Cox. Soprano Lucinda Cox sang the premiere of Ailsa Dixon’s The Spirit of Love at St George’s Bristol in...
Ireland and Britten I was interested to read the article “Never Forgotten” in the Autumn issue of BMS news. The plaques of Britten and Ireland reminded me of my visit to those composers’ birthplaces. Britten’s birthplace is a comfortable B&B where one can sleep in...
Australia’s Robert James Stove is one of a number of new members who joined the British Music Society recently. Robert is currently in the final stages of his PhD candidature at the Sydney Conservatorium; his thesis is on the subject of Stanford’s organ music. In 2019...
