Concert review: 25 Years of Prima Facie

Concert review: 25 Years of Prima Facie

Sep 29, 2021 | News

St Paul’s Church, Heaton Moor Saturday 18 September  Victoria String Quartet: Benedict Holland, David Greed, Alistair Venart, Jennifer LangridgeAlessandra Pompili & Simon Passmore pianoJohn Turner recorderGavin Barras/Steve Plews double bass and piano – jazz...
WALTON: Symphony No. 1

WALTON: Symphony No. 1

Sep 24, 2021 | CD reviews

WALTON: Crown ImperialVAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Suite for four hands Lynn Arnold and Charles Mathews piano duet Albion Records ALBCD047 When I first heard Walton’s Symphony 1 as a 12-year-old I thought it the most cacophonous nonsense.  Happily, over the ensuing decades it...
Obituary: Giles Easterbrook

Obituary: Giles Easterbrook

Sep 24, 2021 | News

BMS Vice-President has died aged 72. 1949 – 2021 After two years in concert management, Giles Easterbrook started his career in the promotion department at Novellos where he later became head of promotion and served the Novello composers with extraordinary...
EUAN MOSELEY: Piano Topography

EUAN MOSELEY: Piano Topography

Sep 23, 2021 | CD reviews

Gusztáv Fenyö piano CLAUDIO CONTEMPORARY CC5991/2-2 ‘He’s a mischievous and cunning old artist’ – the French avant-garde painter Francis Picabia was referring to Erik Satie, but after listening to the double CD set that presents the 20 concert studies that make...
Book explores life of Victorian musician

Book explores life of Victorian musician

Sep 23, 2021 | News

The Best in Sound and Form and Hue is a fascinating work of social history based on extensive primary-source research by the author, John Hugh Thomas about John Squire, musician and artist who lived from 1833 – 1909. This is the biography of a banker and skilled...