A rare performance of an extraordinary Cantata: Dona Nobis Pacem will take place on 16 November in Edinburgh. Composed by Ronald Center (1913-1973), this performance will be given by the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union. This Cantata is an impassioned plea for peace in a...
British composer, arranger and saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi and her Mercury Prize-nominated ensemble seed. are set to collaborate with the London Symphony Orchestra as part of this year’s London Jazz Festival. Entitled Nature’s HEART, the...
‘So Written to After-Times’ is a compilation of letters to, or by, John McCabe, and is soon to be published by Forsyth in Manchester. Correspondents include Britten, Barbirolli, Ursula Vaughan Williams, Previn, Beryl Bainbridge, David Bintley and Richard...
Imogen Holst’s Violin Concerto will be given its first public performance in London by Midori Komachi in November. Violinist and composer Midori Komachi is reviving this neglected British violin concerto as part of her latest project bridging UK and Japanese cultures...
One of the best-known British composers of the 20th century, Malcolm Arnold composed everything from symphonies and ballets to concertos and film scores. His music is constantly engaging and directly communicative, but behind the popular image of Arnold was a rather...
