Letter: Spot that Tune

Letter: Spot that Tune

Dear BMS The ‘Spot that tune’ music in the August E-News is by Robert Farnon – How beautiful is night.  I have a piano arrangement that was published by Chappell in an album entitled Robert Farnon – Journey into Melody ISBN 0-86359-529-4.  Kind...
FREAK OUT: Extraordinary Music for Organ

FREAK OUT: Extraordinary Music for Organ

Tom Bell organ REGENT REGCD540 The Royal Hospital School, where this CD was recorded, moved from Greenwich in 1933 to just south of the village of Holbrook in Suffolk. It has close links with the navy and was historically nicknamed ‘The Cradle of the Navy’. Its Chapel...
DEDICATION: Clarinet Chamber Music

DEDICATION: Clarinet Chamber Music

By Ruth Gipps Peter Cigleris clarinetGareth Hulse oboeTippett QuartetDuncan Honeybourne piano SOMM RECORDINGS SOMMCD 0641 Interest in the music of Ruth Gipps is clearly increasing.  I suggest the reason for this is that there is an appetite for the less...
BRITISH OBOE QUINTETS

BRITISH OBOE QUINTETS

Nicholas Daniel oboe and cor anglaisDoric String Quartet CHANDOS 20226 The first thing to realise here is that only three of these five works were originally conceived for this combination – Arnold Bax’s three movement Quintet of 1922, originally written for the...
Recording projects to mark RVW 150 years

Recording projects to mark RVW 150 years

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...