Sounding the climate alarm through music
A new 50-minute choral work specially commissioned from British composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad will be premiered at Worcester Cathedral on 25 April…
HOLST & BAX: The Planets | Tintagel
Since The Planets is Holst’s most famous work, there is a tendency to overlook its originality. Nothing like it had been heard in any British work before 1914 and it was innovatory even by the most advanced continental standards of the time…
Let’s make a Celebration Blissfull!
Andrew Burn, chairman of The Bliss Trust, reflects on the ongoing commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death…
A Musical Soirée album launches in April
Musical gatherings go back millenia, from the oral transmission of folk songs through communal music making to entertainments at 18th century courts…
NARESH SOHAL: Vocal & Instrumental Music
After two valuable issues of his orchestral/vocal music Heritage continue with a double album of mixed ensemble works largely from his early ‘modernist’ period…