BMS member discount for revised Stanford book

BMS member discount for revised Stanford book

Mar 26, 2024 | News

BMS members can receive a 35% discount when buying a book that sheds new light on Charles Villiers Stanford’s career as a composer, conductor and teacher. Being launched in April, the revised and expanded edition of Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician...
Only the Notes You Need

Only the Notes You Need

Mar 23, 2024 | Features

Adam Pounds recalls three years of study with Lennox Berkeley A young composer can often feel ‘lost’, and in 1976, while I was studying at the London College of Music and won the composition prize with my Oboe Quartet, I was sufficiently encouraged by this...
Festival director dies aged 75

Festival director dies aged 75

Mar 22, 2024 | News

The passing of Music Director Emeritus Stewart Robertson has deeply saddened The Glimmerglass Festival community. Robertson’s connection to Glimmerglass was deeply rooted in the sense of creative fulfillment and purpose he felt within the Festival’s unique...
GEORGE LLOYD: The Symphonies Nos. 7-12

GEORGE LLOYD: The Symphonies Nos. 7-12

Mar 22, 2024 | CD reviews

BBC Philharmonic Philharmonia Orchestra BBC Philharmonic Brass Albany Symphony Orchestra George Lloyd conductor LYRITA SRCD 2418  It is an extraordinary journey to hear the whole of George Lloyd’s symphonies over a single period of time, a...
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A Birthday Garland

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A Birthday Garland

Mar 22, 2024 | CD reviews

Roderick Williams baritoneSusie Allan piano SOMM 0683 It seems that Roderick Williams is never out of the recording studio, but this disc is more special as he has conceived it both as a CD and as a complete recital. He explains in the excellent booklet notes (also...