April, 2021 - British Music Society

Date for your diary: BMS AGM 2021

Apr 24, 2021 | News

The date for the BMS AGM 2021 will now be held via Zoom on Monday 4 October 2021, 10am – 12pm UK time. More information including the link to the Zoom meeting will be sent to members in late summer.

BASC 2021 video released online

Apr 24, 2021 | Inbox

A film of BASC 2021 featuring Dame Sarah Connolly as the teacher and judge of the BASC 2021 masterclass/competition and held in December 2021 can be viewed below: Nigel Foster, BMS member and Director of the London Song Festival, announced that Sarah would be the...

Entries open for BMS Essay Competition 2021

Apr 24, 2021 | News

Student researchers are encouraged to enter the second British Music Society Essay Competition following the 2019 event which coincided with the Society’s 40th anniversary celebrations. The competition continues its aim to stimulate an increase in musicological...

CECILIA MCDOWALL: Sacred Choral Music

Apr 24, 2021 | CD reviews

The Choir of Trinity College CambridgeAlexander Hamilton organStephen Layton conductor HYPERION CDA 68251 With this CD the discerning collector is once again in debt to Hyperion’s stimulating catalogue of contemporary choral repertoire, one enhanced by performances...

JOHN MCCABE: Requiem Sequence and other works

Apr 24, 2021 | CD reviews

William Byrd Singers director Stephen WilkinsonNorthern Chamber Orchestra director Nicholas WardJohn McCabe piano PrimaFACIE PFCD044 John McCabe (1939-2015) composer, virtuoso pianist and, from 1983 to 1990, director of the London College of Music, worked at a...