Recording projects to mark RVW 150 years

Recording projects to mark RVW 150 years

Sep 18, 2021 | News

Vaughan Williams’ 150th birthday will be celebrated in style in 2022 by Albion Records which has announced over seven partnership recording projects over the next 12 months.  One of these is a recently made recording of Ben Jonson’s masque Pan’s Anniversary with...
CRÉPUSCULE

CRÉPUSCULE

Sep 18, 2021 | CD reviews

ALWYN, BAX, LEWIS, LIPKIN, RAWSTHORNE Aurora TrioEmma Halnan flute Jordan Sian viola Heather Wrighton harp EM Records EMR CD069 Both Bax’s ravishing Elegiac Trio – with its haunting opening viola theme – and Alwyn’s Naiades (alternately rippling and...
DE PROFUNDIS CLAMAVI: Piano works

DE PROFUNDIS CLAMAVI: Piano works

Sep 16, 2021 | CD reviews

Duncan Honeybourne Piano EM Records EMR CD070-71 This typically adventurous double-CD (packed with première recordings) opens with a 1938 Sonata from Birmingham’s Christopher Edmunds. Two ardent and tumultuous movements in the Rachmaninoff vein are followed...
EDWARD ELGAR: Where Corals Lie

EDWARD ELGAR: Where Corals Lie

Sep 16, 2021 | CD reviews

A Journey through Songs Julia Sitkovetsky sopranoChristopher Glynn piano CHANDOS CHAN 20236  As the overall title of the CD suggests, this journey through the songs of Sir Edward Elgar opens with Sea Pictures, Op 37. In some ways, these five songs are the most...
BMS offer on new books

BMS offer on new books

Sep 15, 2021 | News

BMS members are offered a discount of up to 30% on two new books from Yale University Press. British pianist and writer Susan Tomes is renowned both as a soloist and as the pianist of Domus and the Florestan Trio.  Her new book The Piano: A History in...