BMS AGM 2025

BMS AGM 2025

The BMS AGM will be held on Saturday 22nd February 2025 in St Barnabas Church, Pitshanger Lane, Ealing at 5.30pm – in the break between Ealing Symphony Orchestra’s rehearsal and the concert which starts at 7pm. The ESO concert opens with Ruth Gipps...
TOM COULT: Pieces That Disappear

TOM COULT: Pieces That Disappear

BBC Philharmonic Elena Schwarz, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Gourlay conductors NMC NMCD261 Tom Coult, born in London in 1988, has had considerable success in a variety of musical genres and is currently composer in association with the BBC Philharmonic. That...
LEIGHTON/VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: That Sweet City

LEIGHTON/VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: That Sweet City

Rowan Atkinson narratorChoir of The Queen’s College, OxfordBritten Sinfonia SIGNUM CLASSICS SIGCD917 I imagine that for a lot of our members this issue, with its headline title That Sweet City, will be self-recommending. The fact that it is also an outstanding...
PAMELA HARRISON: Lonely Landscape

PAMELA HARRISON: Lonely Landscape

Royal Welsh Chamber Players James Gilchrist  tenorAlice Neary cello  Jâms Coleman piano RESONUS 10351 This is now the second disc to come my way, from the enterprising Resonus label, of chamber music by Pamela Harrison (1915-1990.)  The first was RES10313. This time...
BRITISH CELLO WORKS VOL. 3

BRITISH CELLO WORKS VOL. 3

Hurlstone, Swinstead, Carwithen, Bridge Lionel Handy celloJennifer Walsh piano LYRITA SRCD 441 This is actually the fourth Lyrita disc from these artists and it brings us a sheaf of recorded premières and one ‘near-staple’. Hurlstone’s 1899 Sonata steps out with...