


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
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
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...