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Founded in 1979, the British Music Society is dedicated to promoting and preserving Britain’s musical heritage with particular emphasis on 20th century composers through recordings, publications and events
Latest features & reviews
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Mantegna
This release throws light upon what must be one of the least explored areas of a mainstream composer’s output. Hymnody was an important aspect of Vaughan Williams’ art…
A VISION IN A DREAM: Concertos by Edward Gregson
The performances are all superb and the recorded sound is natural and warm. An excellent disc to play to anyone who finds contemporary music intimidating…
MALCOLM ARNOLD: Homage to the Queen | Sweeney Todd
I have long had a recording of the Homage to the Queen Suite that I have never played – lazily assuming it to be all fanfares and Elgarian marches. Now here is the complete ballet…
Opera North: Black Spider
What more refreshing a way for a opera company to launch its new season than with a British work involving the next generation of singers, musicians, creative technicians and administrators as well as new audiences for opera…
THE SOUND OF HIDDEN MUSIC: Songs of Hubert Parry
n the notes which accompany this issue, the late Paula Fan, who accompanies these songs by Parry, makes the point that the composer’s reputation would appear to rest on a small group of works from what was a prodigious output…
LUCY WALKER: Choral Works
Lucy Walker is a young composer specialising in choral music and her work has been commended by no less an authority than Bob Chilcott…