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A COCKTAIL OF HAPPINESS: The music of Fred Hartley

Dec 27, 2023 | CD reviews

The Royal Air Force Salon Orchestra RAFMRL023 The training for RAF musicians is clearly wide, varied and of a very high standard. Not to be outdone by their wind band colleagues the three violins, viola, cello, bass and piano who together make up the RAF Salon...

Three Choirs celebrates anniversaries

Dec 27, 2023 | News

Lesser known repertoire by mostly British composers including Stanford and Holst feature in the newly released evening programmes for the 2024 Three Choirs Festival which will take place from 27 July to 3 August. Worcester Artistic Director Samuel Hudson marks the...

A CELTIC LEGACY: The Music of the O’Donnell Brothers

Dec 26, 2023 | CD reviews

The Band of The RAF College MPR007 There have been so many developments in the writing of music for wind band that it is good to be reminded of just how good the traditional wind band idiom is. This welcome disc does just that. It is dedicated to the work of the...

ELGAR: Orchestral Music

Dec 21, 2023 | CD reviews

LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LSO0572 (4 disk set) Disc 1: Symphony no 1, Pomp and Circumstance Marches, 2,3,5 Colin Davis, Barry Tuckwell conductors Disc 2: Symphony no 2, Coronation March, Imperial March Pomp and Circumstance March No 1Colin Davis, Barry...

CD reviews – dead or alive?

Nov 28, 2023 | Inbox

The fact that several of the reviews in the recent edition of BMS News cover CDs containing entirely or mostly music by living composers prompts me to write (yet again) to observe that the founding principle of the British Music Society was the promotion of music by...