Digitising the BMS Journals

Digitising the BMS Journals

The BMS produced its first journal in 1979. Over 40 editions later we eagerly await the latest edition which is due very soon. Many of these journals are now out of print and therefore inaccessible to BMS Members and other British Music enthusiasts.  Increasing...
Guess the composer

Guess the composer

BMS Member John Turner has asked if any other BMS member can identify the following excerpt from the first and last pages of a Sarabande for piano dated 1939. As you will see, the style of the music is fairly sophisticated, the writing very precise, and the piece...
Nocturne: composed during lockdown

Nocturne: composed during lockdown

British composer John Whittaker shares a film of his ‘Nocturne’ which was composed during lockdown. This is one of a set of four songs composed for soprano and piano and is accompanied by a beautiful film of the English...
Obituary: David Beck

Obituary: David Beck

Despite, or perhaps because of, sharing a surname with Swiss, German, American and Canadian composers, the British composer David Beck, who died on 7th July last, of oesophageal cancer, remained for much of his life in the shadows as an orchestral violinist. He was...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Cello Concerto, Symphony no 5

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Cello Concerto, Symphony no 5

Florian Arnicans, celloLiepāja Symphony OrchestraJohn Gibbons conductor TOCCATA TOCC0600 I have known Wordsworth’s Cello Concerto from a venerable BBC broadcast without ever being quite engaged by it, so this CD première from (among others) our very own Vice Chairman...