ED HUGHES: Music for the South Downs

ED HUGHES: Music for the South Downs

Jun 23, 2022 | CD reviews

New Music playersPrimrose Piano Quartet MÉTIER msv 28623 Ed Hughes is Professor of Composition at the University of Sussex. In 1990 he founded the New Music Players, a contemporary ensemble comprising up to 25 world class performers. Different groups from among these...
Letter: information wanted

Letter: information wanted

Jun 20, 2022 | News

I have been looking for information on Winifred Browne, a pianist who gave the first radio broadcast of Rachmaninov’s 4th piano concerto, in 1930. She is included in a scrapbook in the BMS Archive at Trinity Laban and I would be interested if anyone has any...
Music and Migration in Georgian Edinburgh

Music and Migration in Georgian Edinburgh

Jun 20, 2022 | Features

An exhibition at the Georgian House in Edinburgh opened in June telling the remarkable story of Felix Yaniewicz (1762-1848), a celebrated Polish- Lithuanian violinist and composer, who settled in Scotland and co-founded the first Edinburgh music festival in 1815....
Obituary: David Lloyd-Jones

Obituary: David Lloyd-Jones

Jun 20, 2022 | News

1934 – 2022  Meeting extraordinary people is one of life’s great privileges and David Lloyd-Jones, who died on 8th June, was one such extraordinary man.  His love of music developed from his father taking the 10-year-old David to hear a concert with...
BRITISH CHAMBER MUSIC

BRITISH CHAMBER MUSIC

Jun 20, 2022 | CD reviews

Clive Jenkins, Gerald Finzi, Don Sherman, Alan Ridout, William Lloyd Webber, Ronald Binge, Cecilia McDowell, Joseph Horovitz, Robin Milford, Elias Parish-Alvars Chamber Ensemble of London Peter Fisher violin, director SOMM CD 0653 The title on the booklet cover is the...