Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # British Music Society 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 ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [News](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/news/) - [MATTHEW MARTIN: Choral Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/05/matthew-martin-choral-works/) - Matthew Martin has had a varied career in music, the earlier portion closely involved in cathedral music. He is currently Precentor and Director of Music at Gonville & Gaius College, Cambridge.... - [Petition calls for arts to be integral in new PM's plan](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/07/15572/) - More than 15,000 people have to date signed a new petition urging the new Prime Minister to make the arts and culture an integral part of his forthcoming “10-year plan” for the UK... - [British Music in Bath](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/07/british-music-in-bath/) - It may be unusual in a concert review to talk as much about the venue as about the music itself, but on 4 July, here in Bath, some remarkable British music was performed in a remarkable building... - [DAVID HACKBRIDGE JOHNSON: A Pocket Full of Tunes](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/07/david-hackbridge-johnson-a-pocket-full-of-tunes/) - This Metier CD features solo music written specifically for the featured soloist, and for a specific 1641 instrument (the oldest viola in England) - initially for a series of concerts in some of London’s most venerable churches... - [Bite-Back: Michael Hurd on The Immortal Hour](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/07/biteback-michael-hurd-on-the-immortal-hour/) - I was pleased to see the entry in the latest BMS News regarding Michael Hurd's discussion on my grandfather's successful music drama The Immortal Hour... - [September new releases round-up](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/07/september-new-releases-round-up/) - Among the new releases this month is one from Michael Foyle and Iain Burnside which traces connections through three strikingly individual voices across more than a century... - [LPO Gala event raises funds for orchestra](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/07/lpo-gala-event-raises-funds-for-orchestra/) - The recent LPO Stellar Gala raised £216,000 to support the orchestra’s work on the concert platform and beyond... - [A new chapter starts for LSO at St Luke's](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/07/a-new-chapter-starts-for-lso-at-st-lukes/) - The London Symphony Orchestra has announced a new chapter for LSO St Luke’s... - [EDWARD PICTON-TURBERVILL: Eden](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/07/edward-picton-turbervill-eden/) - This is a most intriguing issue with much to admire. It is no surprise that this composer’s muse has led where it has. Following his organ scholarship at St John’s Cambridge, he completed an M.Phil in Environmental Policy... - [PAUL HENLEY: Piano Works Vol 1](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/07/paul-henley-piano-works-vol-1/) - This selection of his piano works includes those written within a 15-year period from 2005. The three sonatas are varied, firmly rooted in tonality and in the long and honourable tradition of British solo piano music... - [PAUL HENLEY: Piano Works Volume 2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/07/paul-henley-piano-works-volume-2/) - Paul Henley came to composition as a sole occupation somewhat late, when he was 60, after a varied career as an opera singer and a teacher. His catalogue of works is impressive... - [DAVID EARL: 75th Birthday Tribute](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/07/david-earl-75th-birthday-tribute/) - This release celebrates the composer’s 75th birthday and consists of the composer playing two of his substantial cycles for piano... - [ERIC CRAVEN: Set Two for Piano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/07/eric-craven-set-two-for-piano/) - Eric Craven is a composer who eschews publicity... He has composed since his youth, but only recently and at the urging of a number of eminent pianists, was persuaded to make his work publicly available... - [Naming the nations' composers](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/06/naming-the-nations-composers/) - As we approach the silly season, Nicholas Keyworth takes a light-hearted look at composers named after England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland... - [QUIET SUMMER EVENING: British Light Classics](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/06/quiet-summer-evening-british-light-classics/) - Light music has enjoyed something of a renaissance in the last 30 years or so, beginning with the very successful series of recordings made by the New London Orchestra under the late Ronald Corp... - [ADAM SAUNDERS: Orchestral Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/06/adam-saunders-orchestral-music/) - To tackle this feast of upbeat effervescent showpieces without a break would be the equivalent of consuming a whole box of chocolates in one sitting... - [A round-up of new releases this month](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/06/a-round-up-of-new-releases-this-month/) - SOMM Recordings are releasing two recordings this month featuring British Music while Orchard Classics has a new CD featuring the music of Edward Picton-Turbervill.... - [Michael Hurd talk about Boughton at Faeryland published](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/06/michael-hurd-talk-about-boughton-at-faeryland-published/) - A fascinating talk by Michael Hurd about the immense success of the opera The Immortal Hour by Rutland Boughton has been published recently on YouTube... - [First performance in 70 years of Ruth Gipps' cantata](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/06/first-performance-in-70-years-of-ruth-gipps-cantata/) - Ruth Gipps’ dramatic cantata Goblin Market, inspired by Christina Rossetti’s iconic poem, is to be performed and professionally recorded by the all-female UK vocal ensemble Corra Sound... - [Keeping Your Cool](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/06/keeping-your-cool/) - Recent record temperatures have created serious challenges for many cultural venues and for the people who work and perform in them. Some buildings have struggled to remain open... - [CHARLES WOOD: String Quartets](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/06/charles-wood-string-quartets/) - To those who only know Wood’s church music, this CD is likely to be a revelation. His quartets are big-boned and closely argued essays in four movements, heavily influenced by Brahms... - [PHILIP MOORE: Cathedral Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/06/philip-moore-cathedral-music/) - As a demonstration of Philip Moore’s expressive range as a composer, this could hardly be bettered. Andrew Lucas shapes the performances expertly and the recording can be enjoyed at one sitting... - [JOHN McCABE: Orchestral works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/06/john-mccabe-orchestral-works/) - This is a major release. McCabe’s cello concerto, a work of extraordinary construction and beauty, is one of his most important and compelling works... - [HOMMAGE: Tributes to Handel and Purcell](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/06/hommage-tributes-to-handel-and-purcell/) - The connection between Handel and British football may not be immediately apparent. Singing goes on at football matches, but rarely of the Handelian kind... - [GOOSSENS, BLISS AND HOWELLS: Songs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/05/goossens-bliss-and-howells-songs/) - As lovers of British music, we should be especially proud of the English song tradition which you can date back to the Middle Ages. These three composers may not initially be associated with song, but word setting word was clearly important to them... - [HOWELLS: Partsongs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/05/herbert-howells-partsongs/) - Partsongs have suffered a decline in fashion since the middle of the last century; so while Howells’ ecstatic liturgical settings continue to flourish, all but one of the brief works on this fascinating new issue are first recordings... - [FINZI | SWAIN | APIVOR: Clarinet Concertos](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/05/various-three-clarinet-concertos/) - On the surface these works might appear to be unlikely bedfellows but, despite the big stylistic contrasts they were all being composed possibly within a few months of each other... - [CHRISTOPHER CHURCHER: Moonrise](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/05/christopher-churcher-moonrise/) - Churcher has a wide expressive range and the use of the piano in some of the pieces is welcome. Mar Umbert Kimura’s contribution is distinguished... - [Engaging with music brings health benefits, says study](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/05/engaging-with-music-brings-health-benefits-says-study/) - Regularly taking part in arts activities such as listening to music may slow the pace of biological ageing, according to a study... - [New releases round-up](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/05/new-releases-round-up/) - Resonus Classics has just released a recording of new music for violin and orchestra from Northern Ireland while Inventa Records has released a new CD to mark 400 years since Orlando Gibbons’s death... - [New BMS Journal published on website](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/05/new-bms-journal-published-on-website/) - The 2025 edition of the BMS Journal have now been published online and is available for members to access... - [The Changing World of Recorded Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/the-changing-world-of-recorded-music/) - Do you remember when CDs first appeared in the record shops? Did you have conversations about which was better: CD’s or Vinyl - or even cassettes? - [Donations sought for rare Ivor Gurney record](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/05/donations-sought-for-rare-ivor-gurney-record/) - Funding is being sought to produce Come, O come, my life’s delight – the songs of Ivor Gurney, a CD featuring rare songs by the English composer and poet. - [STEPHEN DODGSON: Turn Ye to Me - Songs Volume 3](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/04/stephen-dodgson-turn-ye-to-me-songs-volume-3/) - I am coming to the songs for the first time but there is enough variety on this disc to make it a good introduction to the original and skilful gift that Dodgson clearly had for word setting... - [EDMUND RUBBRA: Choral Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/04/edmund-rubbra-choral-music/) - Since his death 40 years ago, Edmund Rubbra’s music remains on the outskirts of the repertoire. Much still deserves an airing but this collection includes three first recordings... - [JIM AITCHISON: Piano Quintets](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/04/jim-aitchison-piano-quintets/) - Aitchison’s first piano quintet, Margarete, has its relationship to Anselm Kiefer’s 1981 painting of the same name. The composer states that this is regarded as a ‘pivotal work... - [Festival to focus on composer Julius Benedict](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/04/15238/) - A week-long Julius Benedict Festival, organised by Music in the Burnhams, is taking place in North Norfolk in July 2026... - [HAVERGAL BRIAN: Symphony No. 1 'The Gothic'](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/04/havergal-brian-symphony-no-1-the-gothic/) - While it is fashionable to observe that ‘of course’ the piece is uneven, it is also worth stressing its staggering originality; not a contrived originality... - [Michael Hurd 20th anniversary concerts](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/04/michael-hurd-20th-anniversary-concerts/) - Further performances of Michael Hurd's music to mark the 20th anniversary of his death this year have been announced... - [BBC Proms returns in summer 2026](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/04/bbc-proms-returns-in-summer-2026/) - Over 3,000 artists, 72 proms at the Royal Albert Hall and 13 at UK venues and 20 world premieres are promised when the world's largest classical music festival takes place in July... - [Music for Margaret](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/04/music-for-margaret/) - Memorial concerts commemorating departed loved ones are no novelty, but it’s surely extraordinary to find a memorial concert featuring new pieces specially composed from 14 British composers... - [Third in Elgar series released by SOMM Recordings](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/04/third-in-elgar-series-released-by-somm-recordings/) - The third volume in the series Elgar from the Archives from SOMM Recordings has been released and includes two historic recordings conducted by Sir Adrian Boult... - [BRITTEN & OLDHAM: Mentor](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/04/britten-oldham-mentor/) - This splendid disc contains an outstanding recording of Britten’s Serenade. Much research has been undertaken to compare and contrast the various tempi in issues authorised by the composer... - [Let’s make a Celebration Blissfull!](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/03/lets-make-a-celebration-blissfull/) - Andrew Burn, chairman of The Bliss Trust, reflects on the ongoing commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the composer's death... - [A Musical Soirée album launches in April](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/03/fresh-look-at-chamber-music-with-musical-soiree-album/) - Musical gatherings go back millenia, from the oral transmission of folk songs through communal music making to entertainments at 18th century courts... - [New releases features music by British composers](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/03/new-releases-features-music-by-british-composers/) - A series of new releases containing music by British composers has been announced by Orchid Classics... - [Songs by British composers feature in new releases](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/03/songs-by-british-composers-feature-in-new-releases/) - Songs by a wide range of British composers feature in two new CDs being released by SOMM in April... - [Sounding the climate alarm through music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/03/sounding-the-climate-alarm-through-music/) - A new 50-minute choral work specially commissioned from British composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad will be premiered at Worcester Cathedral on 25 April... - [MIST ON THE MOORS: The Piano Music of Reginald Redman](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/03/mist-on-the-moors-reginald-redman-piano-music/) - Much of Redman’s output for piano was written for his wife. He had married Evelyn Amey in 1922 and she played his music frequently in concerts and broadcasts... - [HOLST & BAX: The Planets | Tintagel](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/03/holst-bax-the-planets-tintagel/) - Since The Planets is Holst’s most famous work, there is a tendency to overlook its originality. Nothing like it had been heard in any British work before 1914 and it was innovatory even by the most advanced continental standards of the time... - [NARESH SOHAL: Vocal & Instrumental Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/03/naresh-sohal-vocal-instrumental-music/) - After two valuable issues of his orchestral/vocal music Heritage continue with a double album of mixed ensemble works largely from his early ‘modernist’ period... - [LSO Live wins Label of the Year award](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/03/lso-live-wins-label-of-the-year-award/) - LSO Live has been awarded Label of the Year at the 2026 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA), recognising the label’s artistic excellence, innovation and commitment... - [Study examines how to grow classical music audiences](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/03/study-examines-how-to-grow-classical-music-audiences/) - A new study into classical music audiences shows how social media and expanded forms of performance are helping bring in younger listeners... - [NIMROD BORONSTEIN: Various](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/03/nimrod-boronstein-various/) - This recording contains two concertante works, one for mandolin and one for oboe, and a cycle of five songs for soprano and orchestra... - [NICHOLAS MICHAEL SMITH: The Girl from the French Fort](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/03/nicholas-michael-smith-the-girl-from-the-french-fort/) - The Girl from the French Fort is a magical realism story set in 1970s Chongqing, China, featuring a young boy named Sangsang who is befriended by a mysterious girl... - [Bite-Back: Breakfast on 3 needs more British music!](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/02/bite-back-breakfast-on-3-needs-more-british-music/) - The output of British music on Breakfast on 3 continues to deteriorate... there were 170 pieces of music broadcast, of which just 19 were by British composers... - [Sir Arnold Bax Society seeks new trustees](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/02/sir-arnold-bax-society-seeks-new-trustees/) - New trustees are being sought by the Sir Arnold Bax Society which is a charity dedicated to promoting the music and legacy of the composer... - [Composer Gavin Higgins appointed by festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/02/composer-gavin-higgins-appointed-by-festival/) - The Three Choirs Festival has appointed Gavin Higgins its composer-in-association for the next three years which will involve him contributing to the artistic life of the festival... - [A round up of new CD releases](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/02/a-round-up-of-new-cd-releases/) - London Symphony Orchestra has announced an ambitious multi‑platform celebration of Gustav Holst’s The Planets, beginning in March 2026 with the release of a new album - [RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Mystical Songs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/02/ralph-vaughan-williams-five-mystical-songs/) - This disc, one of the finest from the Albion stable, features Roderick Williams in magnificent voice on every track. It is an essential purchase that will surely give immense pleasure to many... - [New artistic director appointed by Ex Cathedra choir](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/02/new-artistic-director-appointed-by-ex-cathedra-choir/) - James Burton has been appointed as the next Artistic Director of Ex Cathedra ahead of Jeffrey Skidmore retiring next autumn after 57 years... - [Shortlist announced for 2026 RPS Awards](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/02/shortlist-announced-for-2026-rps-awards/) - The shortlist for this year's Royal Philharmonic Society Awards has been announced, showcasing a host of good news stories about classical music in the UK... - [Obituary: composer Robin Stevens](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/02/composer-robin-stevens-obituary/) - The composer Robin Stevens died on 16th February 2026, after a long struggle with cancer... - [Obituary: composer Jeffrey Lewis](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/02/obituary-composer-jeffrey-lewis/) - The composer Jeffrey Lewis died on November 30 2025, aged 83. He was one of Wales’s leading composers... - [JANET CRAXTON: English Oboe Concertos](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/02/janet-craxton-english-oboe-concertos/) - Not only was Janet Craxton a superbly gifted oboist, but she was also responsible for bringing to our attention many fine oboe concertos. Here we have four... - [MADELEINE DRING: Through the Centuries - 20 Songs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/02/madeleine-dring-through-the-centuries-20-songs/) - One of my prize possessions is an LP, The Far Away Princess, a collection of songs by Madeleine Dring, issued in 1982. In the notes the then soloist, Robert Tear, remarked that Dring is ‘one of the best unknown English song writers’... - [Paul Spicer's Choral Conducting book published](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/02/paul-spicers-choral-conducting-book-published/) - Choral Conducting written by distinguished choral conductor Paul Spicer has been published by Crowood Press... - [English Music Festival moves to Dartington Hall](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/02/english-music-festival-moves-to-dartington-hall/) - After 19 years The English Music Festival is embarking on a new chapter as it prepares to welcome audiences in the spectacular setting of Dartington Hall in Devon... - [ELGAR: Light out of Darkness](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/01/elgar-light-out-of-darkness/) - The great joy of this disc is threefold. Firstly, we are treated to some pieces of Elgar that one rarely encounters, such as the three early settings of O Salutaris Hostia... - [HUW WATKINS: Symphony No. 2 | Fanfare for the Hallé](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/01/huw-watkins-symphony-no-2-fanfare-for-the-halle/) - The Concerto For Orchestra again opens with the familiar...rippling woodwinds, and throughout, the sound world is identical to that of the Symphony - bursting with the same tricks of orchestration and rhythm... - [Prayer for Peace](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/01/prayer-for-peace/) - Manchester-based Prima Facie Records has launched an interesting album Prayer for Peace featuring of music for strings, recorder, voice and piano featuring British composers including Thomas Pitfield, Rhona Clarke and Sasha Johnson Manning. The idea of putting together a compilation of unrecorded works and original arrangements for strings and flute or recorder first came about - [Music news in brief](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/01/music-news-in-brief-jan-2026/) - A round-up of music related news from January 2026 including an award to a distinguished musician and the closure of a cathedral school... - [Trust launches national choral music campaign](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/01/trust-launches-national-choral-music-campaign/) - The Cathedral Music Trust has launched a national campaign to secure UNESCO Living Heritage recognition for English sacred choral music... - [New album features Welsh composer Robin Stephens](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/01/new-album-features-welsh-composer-robin-stephens/) - An album of orchestral music by the Welsh-born and Manchester-based composer Robin Stephens is being released by Toccata on 6 March. The compositional career of Robin Stevens, who was born in 1958, is divided into two periods, separated by a period of illness. The first produced mainly chamber music and works for the church that - [OVERTURES FROM THE BRITISH ISLES, VOLUME 3](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/01/overtures-from-the-british-isles-volume-3/) - With such a smorgasbord of preludes, this disc is best sampled sparingly, but everything here is finely played and cleanly recorded. Many of these scores are little-known... - [New Year's Honours list recognises British musicians](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/01/new-years-honours-list-recognises-british-musicians/) - Soprano Janet Fischer, mezzo-soprano Alice Mary Coote and composer Max Richter were among British musicians recognised in the King's 2026 New Year's Honours... - [Herschel music rediscovered to mark January anniversary](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/01/herschel-music-rediscovered-to-mark-january-anniversary/) - To celebrate Herschel's January astronomical discovery date, the Dionysus Ensemble has released a recording of the composer's music... - [GEOFFREY ÁLVAREZ: Symphonies and Sundries](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/12/geoffrey-alvarez-symphonies-and-sundries/) - Another aspect of the matter is that organ music with a programme is much less common than in the past... - [AVRIL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Piano Concerto | Orchestral Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/12/avril-coleridge-taylor-piano-concerto-orchestral-works/) - Avril Coleridge-Taylor has been overshadowed by her father Samuel, but also by her heritage as the daughter of someone regarded as being of mixed descent... - [Bite-Back: William Sterndale Bennett and George Macfarren](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/12/bite-back-william-sterndale-bennett-and-george-macfarren/) - In my view George Macfarren is the equal of Bennett, and perhaps superior - his seven symphonies and six string quartets are testimony to his prowess, and then there are operas... - [Divine Art to release two new CDs in February](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/12/divine-art-to-release-two-new-cds-in-february/) - Divine Art will be releasing two new CDs in February featuring Scottish composer and artist Jim Aitchison, and British-born and Nicholas Michael Smith... - [WILLIAM SMETHERGELL: Six Overtures Op. 2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/12/william-smethergell-six-overtures-op-2/) - In his very full notes on the music contained in this recording, Jürgen Schaarwächter makes the point that almost all Haydn’s contemporaries in Britain have largely been forgotten... - [Birthdays and anniversaries in 2026](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/12/birthdays-and-anniversaries-in-2026/) - In 2026 there are several British musicians celebrating milestone birthdays plus a number of centenaries too... - [COLIN RILEY: Along the Line](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/12/colin-riley-along-the-line/) - Colin Riley is Reader in Composition at Brunel University. His music draws on a range of elements including new technologies, improvisation, song-writing and large-scale classical form... - [Happy 90th birthday Malcolm Binns](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/12/happy-90th-birthday-malcolm-binns/) - This month we send birthday greetings to a noted authority on British piano music, Malcolm Binns who celebrates his 90th birthday on 29 January... - [DISCOVERING WILFRED HEATON](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/12/discovering-wilfred-heaton/) - In my 2025 review of Paul Hindmarsh’s admirable and authoritative book on Heaton, I mentioned the imminent CD of his chamber music. Here it is. A welcome and most intriguing release... - [ROBIN HOLLOWAY: Violin Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/12/robin-holloway-violin-works/) - Perhaps due to his own confessed status as a composer that critics find hard to pigeonhole, Robin Holloway remains a comparatively shadowy figure in contemporary music... - [THE PETER JACOBS ANTHOLOGY](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/12/the-peter-jacobs-anthology-2/) - This is just the sort of release that the Heritage label was set up to discover. In his booklet notes Peter Jacobs writes that it is a recording of a recital he gave in 1979 of pieces by composers... - [MICHAEL FINNISSY: Organ Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/12/michael-finnissy-organ-works/) - Hot on the heels of Ian Pace’s collection of Finnissy’s piano music on Divine Art comes this comprehensive survey of all the composer’s works for organ... - [British opera in 2026](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/12/british-opera-in-2026/) - It is heartening to see that British Opera is alive and well across the UK with many of our excellent professional opera companies presenting works old and new. Here’s a snapshot of what’s coming up in 2026… - [A German in Whitchurch](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/11/a-german-in-whitchurch/) - As the glorious Llangollen Canal meanders through the borders of Cheshire, Shropshire and North Wales it touches the hidden gem of Whitchurch. Nicholas Keyworth discovered that it was here that the composer Sir Edward German was born in 1862... - [AT THE OPEN DOOR](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/11/at-the-open-door/) - This is a generously filled disc of English songs embracing a period of over 80 years. Six composers are represented beginning with eight songs by Peter Warlock... - [E. J. MOERAN: Orchestral Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/11/e-j-moeran-orchestral-works/) - The live BBC Broadcast of the Symphony in G minor dates from February 1949 and Moeran was present in the Royal Albert Hall.. - [Great Expectations](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/11/great-expectations/) - Jack Van Zandt explores Walter Goehr’s contributions to British music... - [Obituary: composer Geoff Cummings-Knight](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/11/obituary-composer-geoff-cummings-knight/) - The composer Geoff Cummings-Knight has died at the age of 78... - [Report identifies challenges facing UK music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/11/report-identifies-challenges-facing-uk-music/) - UK Music has just released its annual economic report, This Is Music 2025 which outlines the huge contribution the UK music industry makes to the economy. - [WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT: Complete Piano Concertos](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/11/william-sterndale-bennett-complete-piano-concertos/) - William Sterndale Bennett was the most distinguished composer of the early Victorian era in Britain... - [SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Orchestral Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/11/samuel-coleridge-taylor-orchestral-works/) - The 150th anniversary of Coleridge-Taylor’s birth has prompted a number of releases of recordings of his music. This one is the more welcome because it includes several works hitherto not committed to disc... - [Holst's piano up for adoption](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/11/holsts-piano-up-for-adoption/) - Gustav Holst's piano is up for adoption by The Holst Birthplace Trust as part of the fundraising scheme called Adopt an Object... - [DAVID MATTHEWS: Opera, Symphony and Concerto](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/11/david-matthews-opera-symphony-and-concerto/) - David Matthews has written so much music – 11 symphonies, 20 string quartets, and hundreds of other works – that it is hard to get a handle on his achievement. However, he has only written one opera... - [Pass the Spoon - a sort-of opera about cookery!](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/11/pass-the-spoon-a-sort-of-opera-about-cookery/) - Opera North is set to push the boundaries of the conventional view of opera with Pass the Spoon, a daytime cookery show... - [Thangam Debbonaire to head new opera trade body](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/10/thangam-debbonnaire-to-head-new-opera-trade-body/) - Former shadow culture secretary Thangam Debbonaire is to lead a new trade body representing the UK’s opera sector... - [Birtwistle painting for sale](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/11/birtwistle-painting-for-sale/) - A portrait of Sir Harrison Birtwistle painted by his son Adam is being offered for sale at £750 ono... - [THE BLESSED DAMOZEL: Songs of Arnold Bax](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/08/the-blessed-damozel-songs-of-arnold-bax/) - It is tempting to reverse the customary credits to read ‘for piano and baritone’ as Mozart and Beethoven used to do with their violin sonatas, since Paula Fan certainly earns the title of ‘collaborative pianist’ here... - [MICHAEL FINNISSY: Piano Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/10/michael-finnissy-piano-music/) - Although this handsomely-presented set of four discs cannot possibly encompass all his output for the piano, it is a happy celebration for the composer’s 80th year... - [WALTON: Cello Concerto - Symphony No 1 | Scapino](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/10/walton-cello-concerto-symphony-no-1-scapino/) - Walton, John Wilson, Chandos – the recommendation writes itself. But there is also the appearance of Jonathan Aasgaard as soloist in the concerto... - [JOHN IRELAND: Piano Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/10/john-ireland-piano-works/) - This is a most rewarding issue from a leading advocate of Ireland’s piano scores, and one endorsed by the John Ireland Trust, who contributed to its production... - [RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Mantegna](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/10/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](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/10/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... - [Opera North: Black Spider](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/10/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... - [Nature and rivers inspire new British commission](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/10/nature-and-rivers-inspire-new-british-commission/) - Pollution, climate change and the rebirth of nature were the inspiration for a new work by British composer Libby Croad commissioned for The Dionysus Ensemble... - [Extra funding for first new concert hall in 100 years](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/10/extra-funding-for-first-new-concert-hall-in-100-years/) - Scottish First Minister John Swinney has pledged an extra £20m towards the cost of building the first new concert hall in Edinburgh in a century... - [Composer Adrian Sutton dies aged 58](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/10/composer-adrian-sutton-dies-aged-58/) - Adrian Sutton, award-winning composer of the music for War Horse, the National Theatre’s play based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel, has died aged 58. - [Calling all TikTok content creators](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/10/calling-all-tiktok-content-creators/) - TikTok and Southbank Centre have partnered to launch a new classical music program called Crescendo... - [MALCOLM ARNOLD: Homage to the Queen | Sweeney Todd](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/10/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... - [THE SOUND OF HIDDEN MUSIC: Songs of Hubert Parry](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/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](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/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... - [THE LILY OF KILLARNEY](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/the-lily-of-killarney/) - The works which give this issue its title give an indication of just how popular the operas were in the mid-nineteenth century... - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphonies 5 & 9](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/vaughan-williams-symphonies-5-9/) - There is (of course) the dreaded acoustic of the Barbican Concert Hall to contend with, but especially in No 5 I felt the engineers had done very well in presenting the music clearly and atmospherically... - [EDWARD COWIE: Because They Have Songs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/edward-cowie-because-they-have-songs/) - Why do birds sing? - Because They Have Songs.’ Edward Cowie takes that answer from an African text as the title for the fourth in his series of compositions inspired by birdsong... - [BLISS: Miracle in the Gorbals | Metamorphic Variations](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/bliss-miracle-in-the-gorbals-metamorphic-variations/) - Well – in a word, this is superb. You only need to listen to the opening of the ballet to hear timpani thwacks which, were you playing the recording on an LP, would have the stylus jumping out of the groove... - [BEAUTY VEIL'D: Dare, Howell, Matthay, McEwen](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/beauty-veild-chamber-music-by-dare-howell-matthay-mcewen/) - Marie Dare is a new name to me; if her Phantasy Quintet starts with a surging Baxian theme, it soon relaxes into something rather more suave and loosely pastoral, with a hint of Ravel’s airy textures... - [Appreciation of classical music hits six year peak](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/appreciation-of-classical-music-hits-six-year-peak/) - The proportion of UK adults who enjoy exploring classical music at home has hit a six-year peak, according to new figures from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra... - [New classical music festival launched in Wiltshire](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/14491/) - A new ‘classical and cross-genre’ annual music festival has been launched in Wiltshire by conductor Hilary Davan Wetton and arts manager Julia Hudson... - [Malcolm Arnold Festival celebrates 20th year](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/malcolm-arnold-festival-celebrates-20th-year/) - ’20 for 20’ is the theme of the 20th Malcolm Arnold Festival this year when performances of all 20 of the composer’s Concertos for solo instruments will take place... - [THE SPIRIT OF LOVE: Chamber Music by Ailsa Dixon](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/the-spirit-of-love-chamber-music-by-ailsa-dixon/) - The story of Ailsa Dixon is, sadly, not an unusual one. A composer of great promise, who happened to be a woman, had to be content with a scant number of performances during her most fertile period of composition... - [Seeking that one elusive record!](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/seeking-that-one-elusive-record/) - I was very interested in the discussion on CD and vinyl collections. The member who asked for advice on what to do with CDs also mentioned the ridiculous prices asked for LPs... - [Review: Opera North - Earth & Sky](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/review-opera-north-earth-sky/) - A field of butterflies on the Pennine Moors, ethereal poetry and fascinating music in your ears as you explore the wild landscape above Haworth in West Yorkshire... - [TIPPETT, BRITTEN & WALTON](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/tippett-britten-walton/) - A beautifully recorded disc, and an intriguing programme, with some superb playing... - [London choir marks 10th year with new Christmas CD](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/london-choir-marks-10th-year-with-new-christmas-cd/) - One of the UK's foremost recording choirs, The London Choral Sinfonia marks its 10th anniversary with On Christmas Night... - [Old World Cello Concerto CD launches in September](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/09/old-world-cello-concerto-cd-launches-this-month/) - The premiere recording of a cello concerto written by British-Argentine Neo-romantic composer Polo Piatti will be launched on CD on 17 September. Recorded with the National Symphony Orchestra and featuring cellist Justin Pearson with John Andrews conducting at the Henry Wood Hall in London, the Old World Concerto for Cello and Orchestra premiered in 2022. - [Lost works of Ailsa Dixon discovered and recorded](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/08/lost-works-of-ailsa-dixon-discovered-and-recorded/) - After a series of posthumous premieres of works found in her musical archive, the resurgence of interest in Ailsa Dixon’s music is now being marked by a new recording of her chamber music... - [New book charts life of distinguished musician](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/08/new-book-charts-life-of-distinguished-musician/) - In Time to Declare: My Life in Church Music, the distinguished organist and choral conductor Martin Neary offers an extraordinary journey through his life in music... - [Obituary: Raymond Warren](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/08/obituary-raymond-warren/) - Professor Raymond Warren, who has died aged 96, was part of that Interwar generation of British composers that owed a stylistic debt to Tippett and Britten... - [Choir of King's College to release new Christmas album](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/08/choir-of-kings-college-to-release-new-christmas-album/) - The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, is to release a new Christmas album featuring a selection of arrangements and original works for choir and orchestra... - [Choir of King's College to release new Christmas album](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/08/choir-of-kings-college-to-release-new-christmas-album/) - The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, is to release a new Christmas album featuring a selection of arrangements and original works for choir and orchestra... - [Bite-Back: selling CDs as recorded music evolves](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/08/bite-back-selling-cds-in-the-changing-world-of-recorded-music/) - After reading our recent article about the changing world of recorded music, a BMS member asks how to sell a CD collection... - [Concert celebrates Bradford's forgotten composer](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/08/concert-celebrates-bradfords-forgotten-composer/) - The life and music of the forgotten Bradford composer Frederic Cliffe will be remembered at a special concert taking place next month... - [INCANDESCENT INCANTATIONS: Works for solo violin & reciter](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/08/incandescent-incantations-works-for-solo-violin-reciter/) - In the field of music for solo violin and speaker, Alan Ridout’s Ferdinand the Bull has roamed, largely unchallenged, for over 50 years. The two commissions here that attempt to rectify the balance are therefore to be commended... - [AND THE BLACKBIRD SANG: Choral Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/08/and-the-blackbird-sang-choral-music/) - An invigorating issue of fascinating material, Excalibur Voices are a well-balanced ensemble whose phrasing, if not always the tidiest, is natural and musical... - [CIPRIANI POTTER: Complete Symphonies Vol. 3](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/08/cipriani-potter-complete-symphonies-vol-3/) - Both British music research and musical life pay surprisingly little attention to 19th-century British music. This has hardly changed since a few epoch-making writings... - [PIANO QUINTETS: Godfrey, Hodgson, Walthew, McCabe](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/08/piano-quintets-godfrey-hodgson-walthew-mccabe/) - Percy Godfrey? No, me neither; but this 1900 Piano Quintet is quite the find. The first movement surges with full-bodied invention... - [Finzi biographer Diana McVeagh dies aged 98](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/07/finzi-author-diana-mcveigh-dies-aged-98/) - Diana McVeagh, author and long-term BMS member, died on 2 July aged 98... - [A tribute to musician Anthony Green](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/07/a-tribute-to-musician-anthony-green/) - The late and much-lamented Anthony Green was a prolific composer, fine pianist, an inspiring teacher and an indefatigable and loyal champion of the music of his contemporaries... - [RVW, GRAINGER, GRANVILLE-HICKS, RAYNOR: I have lived & loved](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/07/various-i-have-lived-and-loved/) - The main work here is Vaughan-Williams' famous Songs of Travel. Now, I know what you’re thinking, especially as a BMS member; why should you purchase this disc with another version of the Songs of Travel... - [THE SILENT POOL: British Piano Music by Women Composers](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/07/the-silent-pool-british-piano-music-by-women-composers/) - Peter Jacobs is the doyen of British pianists, and those who admire the keyboard music of British composers have particular cause to be grateful for his tireless work in making so much neglected repertoire better known... - [BANTOCK: The Seal Woman](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/07/bantock-the-seal-woman/) - Decades ago there was a short-lived production of The Seal Woman in West London, which somehow eluded me: I’ve been waiting many years to discover what I’d missed... - [FULL OF GRACE: Choral music by James Woodhall](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/07/full-of-grace/) - The main work is The Damascus Road, which is the biblical account of Saul’s conversion, his encounter with God, being struck blind, and becoming Paul... - [British composers featured in new releases](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/07/british-composers-featured-in-new-releases/) - Toccata Classics will launch two new releases of music by British composers including Arnold Cooke and Charles Harford Lloyd... - [University seeks applications for British music research](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/07/university-seeks-applications-for-british-music-research/) - Following the reversal of the decision to close the Music Department at Cardiff University, new PhD Studentships in research have been announced. Two doctoral Studentships are being offered for research relating to any aspect of musicology, composition, research-led performance or ethnomusicology covered by the school's supervision. Particular consideration will be given to research linked to - [BMS trust to promote Hurd's music in 2026](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/07/bms-trust-to-promote-hurds-music-in-2026/) - Many members will remember the generous grant for the British Music Society left in composer Michael Hurd's estate... - [BRITISH MUSIC FOR STRINGS IV](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/07/british-music-for-strings-iv/) - While welcome for its championing of rarely-heard repertoire, most of this disc (under the title British Music for Strings IV) falls squarely into the pleasantly conventional, regardless of the craftsmanship... - [GABRIEL JACKSON: Choral Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/07/gabriel-jackson-choral-works/) - This disc of Gabriel Jackson’s choral music seems to be something of a homecoming for the composer. He was a chorister at the Canterbury Cathedral under Allan Wicks... - [GABRIEL JACKSON: Choral Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/07/gabriel-jackson-choral-works/) - This disc of Gabriel Jackson’s choral music seems to be something of a homecoming for the composer. He was a chorister at the Canterbury Cathedral under Allan Wicks... - [Remembering Anthony Gilbert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/remembering-anthony-gilbert/) - July 5th marks the second anniversary of the passing of celebrated composer and longtime Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) composition professor Anthony ‘Tony’ Gilbert... - [CECILIA McDOWALL: Cantatas](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/07/cecilia-mcdowall-cantatas/) - Cecilia McDowall is a composer in whose catalogue of works music for the voice or voices occupies a central place. This disc features four of her most recent cantatas... - [Obituary: Garry Humphreys](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/obituary-garry-humphreys/) - Garry Humphreys, baritone, conductor, writer, researcher, and business librarian, has died aged 79... - [Panufnik Legacies IV](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/panufnik-legacies-iv/) - This is the fourth CD resulting from the LSO’s Discovery programme showcasing new composers, guided by Colin Matthews (whose own mastery of orchestration was doubtless most useful)... - [A CELLO GALAXY: British Women Composers](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/a-cello-galaxy-british-women-composers/) - Whilst listening to the middle movement, a set of variations in the 1899 Cello Sonata by Amy Horrocks (d.1919) I found myself asking, why don’t we know this music? - [When I was One-and-Twenty: English Song](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/when-i-was-one-and-twenty-english-song/) - The background to this disc is given in its subtitle ‘A celebration of love and the English Landscape underpinned by the poetry of A.E.Housman’... - [MALCOLM ARNOLD: Orchestral and Choral Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/malcolm-arnold-orchestral-and-choral-works/) - It would be hard to overstate the pleasure that this revelatory disc has afforded, and unfamiliarity with the works in question should hinder no-one from obtaining a copy with alacrity... - [TRANSATLANTIC: Brass Music from Britain and America](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/transatlantic-brass-music-from-britain-and-america/) - This mixed bag of British and American music by the distinguished Onyx Brass is never less than entertaining, though I doubt I shall return to some of them often... - [BLISS: The Composer Conducts](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/bliss-the-composer-conducts/) - Sir Arthur Bliss was an excellent conductor of his own music, but surprisingly he made very few commercial recordings. SOMM here celebrates the 50th anniversary of his death... - [July release for one act opera](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/14203/) - The Parlour, an opera in one act by Grace Williams, will be released on 4 July... - [THOMAS PITFIELD: Orchestral Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/thomas-pitfield-orchestral-music-2/) - This important release builds on the success of the recordings of Thomas Pitfield’s chamber and vocal music that recently appeared on the Divine Art label... - [Bite-Back: it's not a second hand book!](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/bite-back-its-not-a-second-hand-book/) - Dr Strachan suggests that my 'assessments of Coleridge-Taylor’s music are likely to be at second hand'. They're really not... - [BRIAN ANDREW INGLIS: To Byzantium and Beyond](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/brian-andrew-inglis-to-byzantium-and-beyond/) - The two electronic pieces on this fascinating disc might be described as mood music of the kind that is regularly encountered on Radio 3’s Night Tracks... - [Cardiff music cuts reversed](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/cardiff-music-cuts-reversed/) - Cardiff University has reversed its controversial decision to scrap its music course as part of wide-ranging cuts affecting a range of courses... - [BARRY MILLS: Unfoldings Volume 10](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/barry-mills-unfoldings-volume-10/) - Unfoldings, the 10th volume of music by Barry Mills contains five String Quartets, one String Quintet (an extra viola) and one Viola Quartet... - [HOLST: The Planets and Earth](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/holst-cheetham-fraillon-the-planets-earth/) - Recent scholarship has delved deeper into Holst’s astonishing cosmos and revealed just how revolutionary this score was for its time. It is important that familiarity does not dull the bravura of his conception... - [WILLIAM BOUGHTON: A celebration on record](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/william-boughton-a-celebration-on-record/) - This is a budget-priced four-disc set in celebration of the conductor’s distinguished career. The tracks were recorded in different venues over many years... - [BAX: Spring Fire](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/06/bax-spring-fire/) - This disc of Bax’s complete music for cello and piano takes its title from the thematic links between that orchestral work and his Cello Sonata. This is a big serious piece... - [Music news in brief](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/05/music-news-in-brief-2/) - News in brief including the death of two British conductors and the release of two new CDs from SOMM Recordings... - [Obituary: Rev. Ronald Corp](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/05/obituary-rev-ronald-corp/) - Ronald Corp lived a full life as an accomplished musician whose achievements as a conductor and composer earned him an OBE for services to British music... - [City churches host summer music in June](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/05/city-churches-host-summer-music-in-june/) - The seventh annual Summer Music in City Churches will take place from 18 to 27 June in the City of London and feature music with the theme of Eternal Light. - [EVERLASTING LIGHT](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/05/everlasting-light/) - This CD is being issued to mark the 125th anniversary of the Bath Abbey Boys Choir. The programme is an enterprising blend of well-known choral items with others which are much less familiar... - [The Lancashire Caruso](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/05/the-lancashire-caruso/) - How many British opera singers get a Wetherspoons pub named after them? Not many - but here’s one I stumbled upon when cruising along the Leeds & Liverpool Canal... - [GRACE WILLIAMS: The Parlour](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/05/grace-williams-the-parlour/) - One remarkable feature of the work is the fact that Williams wrote her own libretto and made an excellent job of it, using some very sophisticated rhyme schemes... - [THOMAS PITFIELD: Orchestral Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/05/thomas-pitfield-orchestral-music/) - Pitfield supporters during his lifetime boasted Sir John Barbirolli, David Ellis (Head of Music for Radio 3 North), Leo Black (BBC Radio 3 producer), as well as many performers... - [SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: English Composer](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/05/samuel-coleridge-taylor-english-composer/) - This book is probably best regarded as a short introduction to the life and music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. It is written mainly from the perspective of Coleridge-Taylor’s status as a black composer in Victorian England... - [THE LIVING FIRE](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/05/the-living-fire/) - ...in his note on the recording the Director of Music, Benjamin Sheen, makes the point that the college continues ‘provide a platform for emerging artists from within the College community to showcase their work.. - [Melbourne Symphony Orchestra releases Holst album](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/05/melbourne-symphony-orchestra-releases-holst-album/) - The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s latest album, released on 30 May, unites Holst’s beloved Planets suite with the world premiere recording of Deborah Cheetham Fraillon’s Earth. - [British chamber music features in June concerts](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/05/british-chamber-music-features-in-june-concerts/) - British chamber music will feature in a trio of concerts taking place in June including one by violinist Madeleine Mitchell, pianist Julian Milford and cellist Kirsten Jenson... - [HALLÉ: Adès, Leith and Marsey](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/05/halle-ades-leith-and-marsey/) - This, above all, is a showcase for the Hallé, who play with brilliance and authority in these kaleidoscopic scores. Their titles may suggest that they are all programmatic in a sense.., - [MADELEINE DRING: Complete Music for Oboe](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/05/madeleine-dring-complete-music-for-oboe/) - By a happy accident just a few days before this CD plopped on my doormat, I had heard an excellent performance of Dring’s Trio for Flute, Oboe and Piano in Hereford. It had been composed in 1968 and consists of three movements. Afterwards I told the performers what a joy it was to hear this work... - [THOMAS PITFIELD: Piano Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/05/thomas-pitfield-piano-music/) - Slowly the music of Thomas Pitfield is emerging from obscurity: following occasional recordings there has recently been a critical biography, and a two-CD set of his chamber works from the admirable Heritage label; while a disc of orchestral pieces is imminent from Toccata... - [O SACRUM CONVIVIUM!: Music for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/05/o-sacrum-convivium-music-for-the-solemnity-of-corpus-christi/) - The feast of Corpus Christi was instituted in the reign of Pope Urban IV in 1264, and the liturgy was constructed by no less an authority than St Thomas Aquinas... - [IN THE MIRROR: Music by Women Composers](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/in-the-mirror-music-by-women-composers/) - This is simply first-rate music superbly performed. It would also be an excellent introduction for any listener who may be timorous about exploring contemporary music... - [EGM resolutions to empower BMS committee](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/egm-resolutions-to-empower-bms-committee/) - There are two resolutions under consideration at the EGM on 10 May which will empower the BMS committee to better utilise BMS resources... - [GRACE WILLIAMS: Songs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/grace-williams-songs/) - Naxos continues its long-running series of releases sponsored by the British Music Society with an album of songs by Grace Williams, all of which are recorded here for the first time... - [ROBERT SAXTON: String Quartets 3 & 4 / Sonata](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/robert-saxton-string-quartets-3-4-sonata/) - Perhaps, like me, you first came across Robert Saxton when his The Ring of Eternity was first heard in 1984 and later recorded. I have always thought highly of his music, and with this CD continue to do so... - [MALCOLM WILLIAMSON: Chamber Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/malcolm-williamson-chamber-music/) - Pianist Antony Gray has assembled a fascinating and enticing issue, generously filled with rarities spanning Williamson’s career. All are impeccably delivered and well worth exploring... - [RUTH GIPPS: Orchestral Works, Vol 4](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/ruth-gipps-orchestral-works-vol-4/) - This important issue completes the cycle of Gipps 5 symphonies, and also offers two rarities, the more important one being the early violin concerto, which dates from 1943... - [JOHN W. DUARTE: Guitar Music Volumes 1 - 4](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/john-w-duarte-guitar-music-volumes-1-4/) - John W. Duarte was something of a pioneer as British composer writing mostly, if not exclusively for the guitar... in his single-minded devotion to the instrument, Duarte was almost unique... - [Events to mark Seiber anniversary](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/events-to-mark-seiber-anniversary/) - A series of events have been organised to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the birth of Hungarian-British composer Mátyás Seiber... - [Unknown work to premiere at festival opening concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/14011/) - A World Premiere performance of an unknown work by composer Stanley Bate will be performed at the opening concert of this year’s English Music Festival... - [JOHN GARDNER: Complete Organ Music, Volume Two](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/john-gardner-complete-organ-music-volume-two/) - Tom Winpenny gives polished and committed performances of this music, as he does with everything that he commits to disc. His ability to bring unfamiliar music to life is extraordinary... - [ERROLLYN WARREN: Orchestral Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/errollyn-warren-orchestral-works/) - Errollyn Wallen seems to be a force of nature. Composer of 20 operas and much, much more, her journey has taken her from her native Belize via New York and Cambridge to (currently) Orkney... - [British pianist to join Philippine orchestra UK tour](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/british-pianist-to-join-uk-tour-by-philippine-orchestra/) - British pianist Mark Bebbington will perform with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) when it makes history with a nine-city tour across the UK this May... - [HOLST: Beni Mora / Choral Symphony Op. 41](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/holst-beni-mora-choral-symphony-op-41/) - This is a valuable and fascinating document of a live broadcast from the Royal Festival Hall in January 1964, and much expertise has been brought to bear in revitalising the historic recording... - [AN ENGLISH PASTORAL](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/an-english-pastoral/) - Having recently reviewed the Naxos issue of Gurney’s songs, it is a pleasure to re-encounter the excellent Eric McElroy, now with a splendid chamber partner, in further first recordings by the composer... - [Obituary: soprano Margaret Gale](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/soprano-margaret-gale-dies-aged-93/) - The soprano Margaret Gale, who enjoyed much success with Sadler's Wells Opera in the 1960s and 1970s, has died... - [Celebration to mark Edward Gregson's 80th birthday](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/celebration-to-mark-edward-gregsons-80th-birthday/) - BMS members are invited to share in a musical celebration of the creative life and music of Edward Gregson as he celebrates this milestone birthday in July... - [Harpsichordist Alan Cuckston dies aged 84](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/04/harpsichordist-alan-cuckston-dies-aged-84/) - Distinguished harpsichordist and BMS member Alan Cuckston has died... - [ENDLESS FASCINATION: The life & work of Thomas Pitfield](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/03/endless-fascination-the-life-work-of-thomas-pitfield/) - Born in Bolton in 1903, Thomas Pitfield was an almost exact contemporary of his fellow Lancastrian, William Walton. But he enjoyed none of the remarkable luck that saw Walton translated from Oldham to Oxford.. - [NARESH SOHAL: Lila; Violin Concerto](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/03/naresh-sohal-lila-violin-concerto/) - Lila is a cycle of seven connected movements and the Violin Concerto is in the three movements; these are major canvases by this wrongly overlooked master composer... - [BRITISH PIANO CONCERTOS: Addison, Cannon, Chagrin](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/03/british-piano-concertos-addison-cannon-chagrin/) - Philip Cannon’s concertino is from the beginning of his career and is a remarkable work.. It is a neo-classical in style and structured in three movements... - [BRITISH PIANO CONCERTOS: Addison, Cannon, Chagrin](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/03/british-piano-concertos-addison-cannon-chagrin/) - Philip Cannon’s concertino is from the beginning of his career and is a remarkable work.. It is a neo-classical in style and structured in three movements... - [SHIFT: Works for Trombone and Brass Band](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/03/shift-works-for-trombone-and-brass-band/) - Simon Dobson’s three-movement concerto from 2012 entitled Shift... is a tremendously exciting work, the outer two movements being full of high energy and seemingly impossible scoring... - [Two new albums to be released by NMC Recordings](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/03/two-new-albums-to-be-released-by-nmc-recordings/) - NMC Recordings has announced the forthcoming release of two albums featuring music by the award-winning composer Martin Iddon and an album of works for cello performed by Clare O’Connell... - [BMS AGM update](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/02/bms-agm-update/) - The BMS AGM took place online and in person on 22nd February 2025 at 5.30pm followed by a great performance by Ealing Symphony Orchestra... - [Elgar’s musical sketches reunited at the British Library](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/03/elgars-musical-sketches-reunited-at-the-british-library/) - A set of original sketches and drafts by Sir Edward Elgar for one of his best-known compositions, the Introduction and Allegro for strings, has been acquired by the British Library... - [Dionysus Ensemble record John Joubert's Octet](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/03/dionysus-ensemble-record-john-jouberts-octet/) - The Dionysus Ensemble has released the premiere recording online of John Joubert's Octet... - [Bliss anniversary celebrated during 2025](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/03/bliss-anniversary-celebrated-during-2025/) - In recognition of 2025 marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Arthur Bliss, more than 100 performances of 46 works by the composer are planned so far this year... - [WALTON: Orchestral Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/03/walton-orchestral-works/) - The violin concerto is of course a superb work reflecting Waltons’ mood of the time when his new relationship with Lady Alice Wimborne was taking flight... - [HAVERGAL BRIAN: Symphonies Nos. 29, 30, 31 & 32](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/03/havergal-brian-symphonies-nos-29-30-31-32/) - The compact Symphony 30 is one of Brian’s most enigmatic. The only way to grasp this intense, dramatic, often violent music is to decode its densely-layered meaning bar by bar... - [EDWARD COWIE: Rock Music (Piano Sonatas 1-3)](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/03/edward-cowie-rock-music-piano-sonatas-1-3/) - Do not be misled by the title Rock Music. It refers not to rock n’ roll music, but to piano music born out of rumination on different types of rock, rock out of which our planet is built... - [JUSTIN CONNOLLY: Music for Strings (plus...)](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/03/justin-connolly-music-for-strings-plus/) - It is a wonderful idea to combine the virtuosity of the Kreutzer Quartet with the fine talents of students from the Royal Academy in these totally brilliant performances... - [English Music Festival returns to Dorchester Abbey](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/03/english-music-festival-returns-to-dorchester-abbey/) - The 18th annual English Music Festival will feature the long-awaited World Première performance of the Symphony no.2 by the composer Stanley Bate... - [US festival features Sir James MacMillan](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/03/us-festival-features-sir-james-macmillan/) - The Sir James MacMillan Festival will take place from 31 March to 7 April in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota... - [Tickets go on sale for Elgar Festival 2025](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/03/elgar-festival-celebrates-uk-composer/) - Themed ‘Celebrate with Elgar’, the 2025 Elgar Festival will take place from Saturday 24 May until Sunday 1 June... - [ROBIN STEVENS: A Questing Soul](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/02/robin-stevens-a-questing-soul/) - This is a generously filled double CD of music for violin and piano by Robin Stevens. There are works for violin and piano duo, and well as solo violin and solo piano... - [A NEW SPIRIT: An album of première recordings](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/02/a-new-spirit-an-album-of-premiere-recordings/) - This is a most enjoyable disc where the music is performed to an extremely high standard. Tuning and intonation are beyond reproach and the recording is both warm and clear... - [NARESH SOHAL: The Wanderer & Asht Prahar](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/02/naresh-sohal-the-wanderer-asht-prahar/) - Sohal was born to a non-musical family in the Punjab and came to England in 1962 to study. It is amazing to think that the highly accomplished Asht Prahar from 1969 was his first orchestral work... - [Wilfred Heaton: His Life, His Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/02/wilfred-heaton-his-life-his-music/) - This is a remarkable story of a pioneering composer who wrote largely for brass bands, yet considered that they were, in general, not fully committed to serious music... - [IAN STEPHENS: Chamber Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/02/ian-stephens-chamber-music/) - This disc includes five examples of Ian Stephens’ chamber music. The first three works use existing musical material... - [IVOR GURNEY: Songs 2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/02/ivor-gurney-songs-2/) - Part of Naxos’s laudable English Song Series, this is the successor to the Gurney disc by Susan Bickley and Iain Burnside from 2009. As such, it may be considered well overdue... - [Anoushka Shankar releases new album](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/02/anousha-shankar-releases-new-album/) - Eleven-time Grammy-nominated sitarist, composer and producer, Anoushka Shankar releases a new album in March... - [Composer Sir James MacMillan receives award](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/02/award-for-composer-james-macmillan/) - An Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society is awarded to Sir James MacMillan ahead of its annual awards this month... - [New release features long forgotten Elgar recordings](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/02/new-release-features-long-forgotten-elgar-recordings/) - The continuing collaboration of SOMM Recordings and Lani Spahr has produced another release of long forgotten and neglected recordings of Elgar's music... - [PETER JACOBS: Anthology Vol 2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/02/peter-jacobs-anthology-vol-2/) - Peter Jacobs has a long history of recording British piano music, and this is his latest anthology for the Heritage Label. As he says, this is a personal selection... - [Letter: researching the van Noorden family](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/02/letter-researching-the-van-nordeen-family/) - The Carl Rosa Trust is searching for information about any living descendants of the van Noorden family... - [John W. Duarte: 'For the joy of it'](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/02/john-w-duarte-for-the-joy-of-it/) - ‘We made music just for the joy of it’, is a quote, describing the pre-WWII music-making by the British composer, arranger, editor, writer and teacher, John W. Duarte... - [Brexit blow for touring musicians](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/01/brexit-blow-for-touring-musicians/) - Many media outlets have been reporting that musicians from all genres are furious that the imposition of red tape and visa fees will mean that working in Europe will simply not be viable. - [BMS AGM 2025](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/12/bms-agm-2025/) - The BMS AGM will take place on Saturday 22nd February 2025 at 5.30pm in St Barnabas Church, Pitshanger Lane, Ealing, London W5... - [STEPHEN GOSS: Landscape and Memory](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/01/stephen-goss-landscape-and-memory/) - This is a hugely rewarding issue by one of the most innovative and appealing composers of our time, and is highly recommended... - [RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT: Orchestral Works Vol. 5](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/01/richard-rodney-bennett-orchestral-works-vol-5/) - Slowly the admirable Chandos project to record the complete orchestral works of this composer proceeds... - [GAVIN HIGGINS: The Faerie Bride / Horn Concerto](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/01/gavin-higgins-the-faerie-bride-horn-concerto/) - His multi-award-winning works are not part of the avant-garde but grow out of an English tradition from Elgar, through Britten and Tippett... - [MARTIN BUSSEY: A Brother Abroad](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/01/martin-bussey-a-brother-abroad/) - Peter of Bologna, Suffragan Bishop of Corbavia (in Croatia) ministered across Europe and spent the last 15 years of his life in England. He is the brother in Bussey’s work A Brother Abroad... - [Music news in brief](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/01/music-news-in-brief/) - An historic music library - the largest in the North of England - reopened in January after undergoing a major redevelopment... - [Award for Sir Simon Rattle at 70](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/01/award-for-sir-simon-rattle-at-70/) - The conductor, who turned 70 in January, is to receive the 2025 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 'in recognition of his lifetime dedication to music'... - [Versatile musician Elgar Howarth dies aged 89](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/01/versatile-musician-elgar-howarth-dies-aged-89/) - Elgar Howarth, trumpeter, composer and later, conductor of repute, has died... - [Sheffield music hub awarded £3.5m funding](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2025/01/sheffield-music-hub-awarded-3-5m-funding/) - Plans to transform a Grade II* listed building in Sheffield city centre into a new music hub for the region has been boosted by £3.5m of funding from Arts Council England... - [PAMELA HARRISON: Lonely Landscape](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/12/pamela-harrison-lonely-landscape/) - It is wonderful that James Gilchrist sings this work as he has such an affinity with British music of this period. This is a very fine cycle, worthy to give its title to this disc... - [BRITISH CELLO WORKS VOL. 3](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/12/british-cello-works-vol-3/) - This is actually the fourth Lyrita disc from these artists and it brings us a sheaf of recorded premières and one ‘near-staple’... - [LEIGHTON/VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: That Sweet City](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/12/leighton-vaughan-williams-that-sweet-city/) - I imagine that for a lot of our members this issue, with its headline title 'That Sweet City', will be self-recommending. The fact that it is also an outstanding recording in every respect must be an additional attraction... - [TOM COULT: Pieces That Disappear](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/12/tom-coult-pieces-that-disappear/) - This is one of those discs that NMC do so well, a wonderful selection box of works by a composer who deserves to be more well known... - [HOLST: Fide Et Literis](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/12/holst-fide-et-literis/) - Fide Et Literis (By Faith and Learning) is the motto of St Paul’s Girl’s School in Hammersmith, and this disc explores music Gustav Holst, their famous teacher, composed for its pupils... - [RUTH GIPPS: Orchestral Music Volume 3](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/12/ruth-gipps-orchestral-music-volume-3/) - Chandos continue with their support and promotion of this quite unjustifiably neglected composer, with only the last, and fifth, of her symphonies now needing recording... - [National Youth Choir album to launch in January](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/12/national-youth-choir-album-to-launch-in-january/) - The sixth instalment of the Young Composers series with the National Youth Choir will be launched on 31 January 2025... - [Music of British composer Anthony Hedges to be recorded](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/12/music-of-british-composer-anthony-hedges-to-be-recorded/) - The piano music of British composer Anthony Hedges will be recorded in 2025 by the young English pianist Adam Davies... - [Obituary: composer and BMS member Christopher Wright](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/12/obituary-composer-and-bms-member-christopher-wright/) - Christopher Wright, composer and loyal BMS member, has died aged 70... - [DISTANT VOICES, NEW WORLDS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/12/distant-voices-new-worlds/) - On this single CD, you will find a multicoloured festoon of contemporary composer styles, many of their works recalling English Early Music... - [Composer Robin Field dies at 88](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/12/composer-robin-field-dies-at-88/) - The English composer Robin Field, who was a pupil of Thomas Pitfield, has died aged 88... - [Premiere commemorates shipping disaster](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/12/premiere-commemorates-shipping-disaster/) - The City of London-based Lloyd’s Choir annual spring concert will feature the premiere of a new choral work commemorating the sinking of HMT Lancastria... - [GRACE WILLIAMS: Orchestral Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/11/grace-williams-orchestral-works/) - The sheer brilliance of the recorded sound is extraordinary and from the outset, the vividness of the orchestra under the ever-excellent John Andrews leaps out of the speakers... - [Save the date: BMS AGM 2025](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/11/save-the-date-bms-agm-2025/) - The BMS AGM is provisionally planned for the afternoon of Saturday 22nd February 2025 in Ealing, London... - [WILLIAM BUSCH: Chamber Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/11/william-busch-chamber-music/) - This disc starts with a beautifully moving work, the Three pieces for Violin and Piano of 1944, completed only weeks before his oh-so-sudden and early death at the age of 44... - [JESSY REASON: Piano and Chamber Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/11/jessy-reason-piano-and-chamber-music/) - Jessy Reason was evidently a devoted and gifted writer; yet apart from one song premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1924, no performances outside the family circle have been traced during her lifetime... - [Review: Carlisle Music Society](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/11/review-carlisle-music-society/) - We were treated to a master class of musicianship by three very experienced and talented musicians, all extremely well known in their specialist fields... - [Composer Madeleine Dring in the spotlight](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/11/composer-madeleine-dring-featured-by-mozart-edition/) - The latest issue of the Mozart Edition / EditionUK newsletter featured English composer Madeleine Dring... - [NEWS OF GREAT JOY: Christmas from St John's College, Oxford](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/11/news-of-great-joy-christmas-from-st-johns-college-oxford/) - The choir of St John’s College, Oxford and their director David Bannister have combined to produce a sequence of Christmas music which judiciously blends well-known carols such as Gustav Holst’s ‘In the bleak midwinter’ with more unusual repertory... - [Divine Art Recordings Group bought by US firm](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/11/divine-art-recordings-group-bought-by-us-firm/) - Recording and publishing group, Divine Art Ltd, has been bought by a US-based company... - [BBC Radio 3 Unwind launches online](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/11/bbc-radio-3-unwind-launches-on-bbc-sounds/) - BBC Radio 3 Unwind, a new 24/7 stream showcasing a broad and eclectic range of calming classical music, has launched on BBC Sounds... - [Curriculum shake-up could boost music and arts](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/11/curriculum-shake-up-could-boost-music-and-arts/) - An overhaul of the national curriculum shake-up is expected to boost take-up of arts subjects including music, according to a report in The Times... - [GEORGE LLOYD: The Works for Violin and Piano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/10/george-lloyd-the-works-for-violin-and-piano/) - For those who associated the composer George Lloyd with his output of symphonies, it will probably be refreshing to hear music that he wrote for his own instrument, the violin... - [GRAHAM HAIR: Piano Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/10/graham-hair-piano-music/) - Hair pays a marked tribute to the artistry of the pianist Martin Jones, whose performances of this demanding repertoire are superb... - [ADRIAN SUTTON: Violin Concerto](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/10/adrian-sutton-violin-concerto/) - Adrian Sutton is well known to the theatre going public through his music for National Theatre productions such as War Horse and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time... - [Holst concerto to premiere in London](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/10/holst-concerto-to-premiere-in-london/) - Imogen Holst’s Violin Concerto will be given its first public performance in London next month... - [John McCabe book to launch](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/10/john-mccabe-book-to-launch/) - '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... - [New version of The Apple Tree released](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/10/new-version-of-the-apple-tree-released/) - A new authorised edition of one of composer Elizabeth Poston’s best-known works Jesus Christ the Apple Tree has been released... - [ROYAL THRONE OF KINGS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/10/royal-throne-of-kings/) - The front cover of the CD shows a portrait of Richard III and with the title Royal Throne of Kings. This looks very much like those CDs of medieval music recorded by Gothic Voices... - [HOWELLS AND WOOD: Quartets](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/10/howells-and-wood-quartets/) - As ever with Somm performances, notes and sound are all excellent, making this a highly auspicious start to a very welcome series... - [British composer to collaborate with London orchestra](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/10/british-composer-to-collaborate-with-london-orchestra/) - British composer, arranger and saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi is set to collaborate with the London Symphony Orchestra as part of this year’s London Jazz Festival... - [Rare Ronald Center performance](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/10/rare-ronald-center-performance/) - A rare performance of an extraordinary Cantata, composed by Ronald Center, will take place in November... - [Why we need an Arnold Bax Society](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/10/why-we-need-the-sir-arnold-tax-society/) - A new music society is being formed devoted to the music of Sir Arnold Bax. Richard R. Adams, chairman of the new society, explains why it is needed... - [RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Carols from Herefordshire](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/10/ralph-vaughan-williams-carols-from-herefordshire/) - This is music written and arranged for good amateur singers so never is it too demanding. This choir is ideal. They are balanced and have clear diction and a fresh uncluttered tone quality... - [KENNETH HESKETH: Hände - Music for Piano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/10/kenneth-hesketh-hande-music-for-piano/) - This release celebrates the artistic collaboration between the performer, Clare Hammond and the composer Kenneth Hesketh... - [The Ghosts of Motley Hall](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/09/the-ghosts-of-motley-hall/) - Do you remember The Ghosts of Motley Hall on TV in the 1970s? It was filmed at the fictional Motley Hall - home to the fictional Uproar family... - [British music featured in Leeds festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/09/british-music-featured-in-leeds-festival/) - The Red Violin Festival, taking place in Leeds from 14th to 19th October, will feature a wide range of British music... - [Malcolm Arnold: Music for Brass Band](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/09/malcolm-arnold-music-for-brass-band/) - [Arnold's] ability to write for and his love of the music of brass bands is no doubt connected to the fact that before becoming a composer he was principal trumpet player with the BBC Symphony Orchestra... - [JOANNA FORBES L'ESTRANGE: Winter Light](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/09/joanna-forbes-lestrange-winter-light/) - Joanna Forbes L’Estrange is the granddaughter of the celebrated Scottish viola player Watson Forbes... - [A CHRISTMAS FANTASIA](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/09/a-christmas-fantasia/) - From the inexhaustible well of Christmas fare, here is welcome refreshment for the most sated... - [THOMAS HEWITT JONES: Regards from Rochester](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/09/thomas-hewitt-jones-regards-from-rochester/) - This work, Regards from Rochester, was commissioned by the Rochester Choral Society to celebrate their 150th anniversary... - [WELCOME JOY: A Celebration of Women's Voices](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/09/welcome-joy-a-celebration-of-womens-voices/) - This CD consists of 10 works by eight female composers, and there are three works by Gustav Holst... - [GEORGE LLOYD: The Violin and Cello Concertos](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/09/george-lloyd-the-violin-and-cello-concertos/) - It is a little surprising that the two concertos for violin come late in Lloyd’s career, the first from 1970 remained unperformed until this recording was made in 1998... - [GEORGE LLOYD: The Piano Works Solo & Duo](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/09/george-lloyd-the-piano-works-solo-duo/) - As a violinist, Lloyd was inevitably more drawn to stringed instruments rather than the keyboard and did not compose his first work for piano until he was 53... - [LIZ DILNOT JOHNSON: Gentle Flame](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/09/liz-dilnot-johnson-gentle-flame/) - As with many recordings of contemporary music, this is probably not one to listen to at a single sitting. Much of the music in the earlier tracks seems to be slow... - [Concert celebrates Holst's 150th anniversary](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/09/concert-celebrates-holsts-150th-anniversary/) - BMS members are being offered discounted tickets to an event next month celebrating the 150th anniversary of composer Gustav Holst... - [RVW work published by BMS member](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/09/rvw-work-published-by-bms-member/) - BMS member Frank James Staneck has announced the publication of his violin and piano arrangement of Charterhouse Suite... - [ROMANCE AND REVERIE: Holst and his contemporaries](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/09/romance-and-reverie-holst-and-his-contemporaries/) - A well-conceived and finely-executed release of intriguing rarities... - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Early and Late Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/08/vaughan-williams-early-late-works/) - This is an interesting (well, in parts) addition to the recorded library of VW’s music, and the music is unfailingly recorded and played... - [THOMAS PITFIELD: His Friends and Contemporaries](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/08/thomas-pitfield-his-friends-and-contemporaries/) - The first item (a two-disc set) juxtaposes Pitfield’s works with those of his contemporaries and friends, and is a delight... - [GERARD SCHURMANN: Orchestral Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/08/gerard-shurmann-orchestral-works/) - Gerard Schurmann was born in Java in January 1924, so in this, his centenary year, Chandos have brought out a disc of four fascinating works... - [Composer Adrian Sutton releases new album](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/08/composer-adrian-sutton-releases-new-album/) - War Horse composer Adrian Sutton, now living with an incurable cancer diagnosis, releases his new album of orchestral works next month... - [RUTH GIPPS: Piper of Dreams](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/08/ruth-gipps-piper-of-dreams/) - Decades ago the best chance of hearing the music of Ruth Gipps was to attend her occasional and often adventurous concerts. Now her discography is expanding rapidly, not least thanks to this label and this soloist... - [SPLENDID TEARS: Settings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/08/splendid-tears-settings-of-alfred-lord-tennyson/) - Brian Thornsett is a lyrical and suitably light tenor, ideal in many ways for this repertoire. I am less convinced by his timbre in the highest and loudest passages... - [Mad Kings and Magic Squares](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/08/mad-kings-and-magic-squares/) - Max has said that his first musical memory of attending a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers when he was four was the event that put him on the road to becoming a composer... - [Archive RVW recordings to be released on CD](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/08/archive-rvw-recordings-to-be-released-on-cd/) - An ‘archive’ recording comprising remastered LP and 78 rpm discs is being launched in early September... - [Alexander Goehr dies aged 92](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/08/13206/) - Early yesterday morning Schott UK announced the death of the influential composer Alexander Goehr at the age of 92... - [Albion to launch four new albums](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/08/albion-launched-four-new-albums/) - Albion is releasing four new albums this Autumn... - [Errollyn Wallen appointed Master of the King's Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/08/errollyn-wallen-appointed-master-of-the-kings-music/) - Acclaimed composer and singer-songwriter has been appointed Master of the King's Music by King Charles... - [GEORGE LLOYD: Symphonies 7-12](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/08/george-lloyd-symphonies-7-12-2/) - Lloyd is a natural symphonist in the sense that he can create works, often large in scale, which are full of invention and variety... - [GEORGE BENJAMIN: Picture a Day Like This](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/08/george-benjamin-picture-a-day-like-this/) - This is the composer’s fourth collaboration with playwright Martin Crimp, and it is their most compact and, to my mind, most successful piece yet... - [British composers feature on Brief Encounters album](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/08/british-composers-feature-on-brief-encounters-album/) - Brief Encounters will be released on 10 September on the Meridian label with violist Peter Mallinson and pianist Lynn Arnold. The music contained on this double album will explore pieces of music which, in different ways, confront or embody a notion of brevity. The collection includes a rich variety of lesser-known gems, mostly from the - [MATT DIBBLE: 24 Preludes and Fugues](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/matt-dibble-24-preludes-and-fugues/) - Fugues can be very dry affairs, but Mr Dibble clearly loved the form, and his approach has left us with something refreshingly alive... - [EDWARD COWIE: Rutherford's Light](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/edward-cowie/) - I was hit by a kind of musical shock and awe. Further listening brought lucidity and a sense of wonderment at the multicoloured pianistic details that shone through... - [DIARY OF THE BEE: Chamber Works by Helen Leach](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/diary-of-the-bee-chamber-works-by-helen-leach/) - The title of the disc is the longest work recorded here. The Diary of the Bee is a five-movement composition lasting 20 minutes... - [Three Choirs Festival book published in July](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/three-choirs-festival-book-launches-in-july/) - A new book examining ten concerts that shaped the world's oldest classical music festival was published in July. - [In short: CD reviews](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/in-short-cd-reviews/) - This new feature offers some brief reviews of some interesting new recordings… FINGER PRINTS Paul Guinery piano EM Records EMR CD 088 Paul Guinery, whose voice will be familiar to listeners to R3, is also a virtuoso pianist with an extraordinary library of music. This is his third collection of music ‘on the lighter side’ - [Archive Holst recording to be released](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/archive-holst-recording-to-be-released/) - In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of composer Gustav Holst, a two CD set is being launched of never-before-released recordings... - [CONCERT REVIEW: Endless Fascination](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/concert-review-endless-fascination/) - The event was something of a marathon, presenting a generous variety of his chamber works alongside a number of miniatures composed in tribute to him... - [Labour announce new culture secretary](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/labour-announce-new-culture-secretary/) - The UK’s new Secretary of State for culture, media and sport is Wigan MP, Lisa Nandy... - [SIÂN PHILIPPS & PER RUNDBERG: From Shadows to Light](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/sian-philipps-per-rundberg-from-shadows-to-light/) - The composers chosen by Siân Philipps for this CD explore what it means to be ‘an outsider on the margins’... - [Bite-Back: Lloyd's Brass Band music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/bite-back-lloyds-brass-band-music/) - I was interested to read Paul Jackson's comment in his review of the CD of Lloyd's Brass Band music, that Royal Parks was not considered challenging enough for the players... - [Praise for McCabe film tribute](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/praise-for-mccabe-film-tribute/) - Several BMS members and friends have enjoyed the July private screening of the John McCabe film tribute... - [ROBERT SAXTON: Scenes from the Epic of Gilgamesh](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/robert-saxton-scenes-from-the-epic-of-gilgamesh/) - Given its foreshadowing of Job as an elemental attempt to confront the mysteries of human fate, it may be surprising that more composers have not turned to the myth of Gilgamesh... - [GERALD HENDRIE: Complete Organ Music, Vol 2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/gerald-hendrie-complete-organ-music-vol-2/) - The fact that the composer is also an accomplished player means that at all times the writing is idiomatic while, at the same time, requiring the technique and interpretative breadth of a virtuoso... - [JOHN GARDNER: Complete Organ Music, Vol 1](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/john-gardner-complete-organ-music-vol-1/) - John Gardner is one of the many British 20th century composers who have not really received the public attention that they deserve. This is in no way a complaint... - [BLISS: Works for Brass Band](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/bliss-works-for-brass-band/) - As Master of the Queen’s Musick (he liked the old spelling), Sir Arthur Bliss was required to write much ceremonial music for brass instruments... - [Album to focus on composer Wilfred Heaton](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/album-to-focus-on-composer-wilfred-heaton/) - The music of Sheffield-born composer Wilfred Heaton will be the focus of a new album... - [Conductor James Loughran dies aged 92](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/07/conductor-james-loughran-dies-aged-92/) - Distinguished Scottish conductor, James Loughran, died in June at the age of 92... - [The Triumph of Time](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/the-triumph-of-time/) - Harry Birtwistle was raised in Accrington, Lancashire, and as a young man had taken up the clarinet with the encouragement of his mother... - [MICHAEL ZEV GORDON: Various](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/michael-zev-gordon-various/) - These three works make a deep impression, and confirm that Gordon is a master of orchestral writing (with a little electronic help)... - [GEORGE LLOYD: Symphonies 1-6](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/george-lloyd-symphonies-1-6-2/) - I seem to remember an essay title, when I was an undergraduate studying music, which read The symphony is dead. Discuss. Well, if that was a serious viewpoint in the early 1970’s it was seriously exaggerated... - [ANTHONY PAYNE: Visions and Journeys](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/anthony-payne-visions-and-journeys/) - Not only is this disc a tribute to Anthony Payne, but it can also be considered a memorial to the late Sir Andrew Davis... - [ELEANOR ALBERGA: Orchestral Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/eleanor-alberga-orchestral-works/) - Thomas Kemp brings his extensive experience of conducting contemporary music to shape these unusually structured works... - [BRIDGE, FRANCES-HOAD & WALTON: Various](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/bridge-frances-hoad-walton-various/) - Laura van der Heijden came to our attention when she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2012, playing the Walton Cello Concerto... - [ROGER QUILTER: Go, Lovely Rose](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/roger-quilter-go-lovely-rose/) - When I opened the packaging for this disc, I suspected that much of music would also be found on one of my favourite discs of English songs... - [CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: Orchestral Songs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/charles-villiers-stanford-orchestral-songs/) - CVS of course crops up in the biographies of his many successful pupils who forged newer forms of expression, though with his own basically late 19th century idiom, his music has tended to be overlooked... - [CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: Te Deum & Elegiac Ode](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/charles-villiers-stanford-te-deum-elegiac-ode/) - Lyrita now complete the set of the major choral works with the Te Deum Op.66 written for the Leeds Festival (and its famed chorus) to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1898... - [GEORGE LLOYD: The Piano Concertos](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/george-lloyd-the-piano-concertos/) - The piano was not George Lloyd’s instrument and thus he came to writing piano concertos later in his life. The composition of the four concertos spans the years between 1962 to 1970... - [GEORGE LLOYD: The Piano Concertos](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/george-lloyd-the-piano-concertos/) - The piano was not George Lloyd’s instrument and thus he came to writing piano concertos later in his life. The composition of the four concertos spans the years between 1962 to 1970... - [BMS recording August launch](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/bms-recording-august-launch/) - BMS members are invited to join baritone Jeremy Huw Williams and pianist Wendy Hiscocks at this year’s Welsh Eisteddfod for the official Naxos launch of our next recording... - [RSCM marks centenary of Stanford's death](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/rscm-marks-centenary-of-stanfords-death/) - The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) marks the centenary of Charles Villiers Stanford’s death with a series of special events... - [THE NAMING OF BIRDS: British Wind Quintets](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/the-naming-of-birds-british-wind-quintets/) - The title of the CD is taken from Sally Beamish’s work, and her inspiration was the calling of birds, although she was also much attracted by their Latin names... - [GEORGE LLOYD: The Works for Brass](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/george-lloyd-the-works-for-brass/) - The wonderful Lyrita edition of Lloyd’s recorded works continues with this well filled disc of his music for brass... - [STEVE ELCOCK: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 8](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/steve-elcock-violin-concerto-symphony-no-8/) - Composer Steve Elcock is living proof that we should never give up hope. As he outlines on his website, he wrote music with seemingly no hope of it being performed... - [Tribute to Peter Pears](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/tribute-to-peter-pears/) - Robin Tritschler's album of Songs for Peter Pears sees the Irish tenor paying tribute to one of the most remarkable singers of the 20th century... - [JUDITH WEIR & JONATHAN DOVE: Organ Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/judith-weir-jonathan-dove-organ-works/) - This is a most engaging recording, pairing organ music by two composers who, at least superficially, might not appear to have very much in common... - [Two British labels announce CD launches](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/two-labels-announce-cd-launches/) - Two labels - Birmingham Record Company and Huddersfield Contemporary Records - have announced three CD launches... - [ERIC COATES: Orchestral Works Vol 4](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/06/eric-coates-orchestral-works-vol-4/) - Volume 1 of Coates’ orchestral music was issued in 2019, and now, five years on, we have reached volume 4. As has been the custom, significant works are interleaved with shorter lighter ones... - [DAVID MATTHEWS: Symphony No. 9](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/david-matthews-various/) - Kenneth Woods, conductor of the English Symphony Orchestra, makes the point about this work that there is still a lot of great music to be written in C major... - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Hugh the Drover](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/vaughan-williams-various/) - The operas of Vaughan Williams have never gained a permanent place in the repertory, which is a pity. Hugh the Drover, Sir John in Love, and particularly The Pilgrim’s Progress contain some wonderful music... - [HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/highways-and-byways/) - This compendium of mostly British contributions to the literature amply demonstrates the versatility of which the recorder is capable. There is variety of mood, virtuosity, colour... - [GODS, GHOSTS AND MONSTERS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/gods-ghosts-and-monsters/) - My initial impression was of the almost salon-like nature of the arrangement, and the pure beauty of Shaw’s voice... - [Series unearths scores from the past](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/series-unearths-scores-from-the-past/) - The English Heritage Music Series now offers free access to musical compositions previously out of reach or long out of print... - [GENESIS AND HOPE](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/concert-review-genesis-and-hope/) - The St Paul’s Sinfonia, who celebrate their 20th anniversary next year, are a well-established feature of concerts in Southeast London... - [Feature: George Frederick Pinto](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/12/feature-george-frederick-pinto/) - We are delighted to include an extract from Jonathan Delbridge’s FNCM diploma thesis A Study of the Piano Music of George Frederick Pinto... - [HUW WATKINS: Chamber Music and Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/huw-watkins/) - The booklet notes confidently proclaim right from the start that Huw Watkins is widely recognised as the leading Welsh composer of his generation... - [Obituary: Sir Andrew Davis CBE](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/obituary-sir-andrew-davis-cbe/) - The British Music Society says farewell to one of our much-loved Vice-Presidents following the death of Sir Andrew Davis... - [Seeking details of a prominent pianist](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/seeking-news-of-a-prominent-pianist/) - A family is seeking news of their grandfather, William Henry Haddon Squire, a prominent pianist... - [From the archives: BMS Journal Vol. 5](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/from-the-archives-bms-journal-vol-5/) - As part of the ongoing digitisation project of past BMS Journals dating back to 1983, BMS members can now access Volume 5 from 1983... - [PHILIP SAWYERS: Various](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/philip-sawyers-various/) - Philip Sawyers’ Third Symphony of (so far) six symphonies was completed in 2016, and it is a muscular work rooted in tonal language but refreshingly ‘dissonant’ and dramatic... - [Welsh composer features on BMS recording](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/new-bms-recording-features-welsh-composers-songs/) - A new BMS recording will be released on the Naxos label in July featuring the songs of Welsh composer Grace Williams... - [HOWARD SKEMPTON: 50 Preludes and Fugues for Organ](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/howard-skempton-50-preludes-and-fugues-for-organ/) - The composer’s note to this recording of Howard Skempton’s ‘50 Preludes and Fugues for Organ’ begins by expressing the likely reaction of many people when first encountering this project... - [GREG CAFFREY: Environments](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/greg-caffrey-environments/) - If the music inhabits a somewhat circumscribed sound and emotional world that puts him in good company with others outside the mainstream... - [NEXUS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/nexus/) - It was trumpet-player Oscar Whight who, in 2020 during the pandemic, when musicians were being forced apart from one another, decided to bring together seven contemporary composers... - [THE PRE-RAPHAELITE CELLO](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/the-pre-raphaelite-cello/) - All the composers have been finely served by this most rewarding partnership, and the recording quality, made in the Yehudi Menuhin School, is exemplary... - [STEPHEN DODGSON: Canticle of the Sun](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/stephen-dodgson-canticle-of-the-sun/) - Having recently reviewed the new publication marking the composer’s centenary, it has been a pleasure to encounter this third issue of his music ... - [PHILIP HAMMOND: Tales of the Glens](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/05/philip-hammond-tales-of-the-glens/) - The accompanying piano music, played with considerable virtuosity and depth of feeling by Anthony Capparelli, takes us back to childhood. - [GEORGE LLOYD: A Symphonic Mass / A Litany](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/george-lloyd-a-symphonic-mass-a-litany/) - This latest release of choral music continues the excellent partnership between the Wyastone Estate and the George Lloyd Society which will see all of the old Albany discs released under the Lyrita label... - [THOMAS PITFIELD: Songs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/thomas-pitfield-songs/) - Pitfield was an artist, engraver, calligrapher, furniture builder and teacher, and I now know he was a fine composer of songs... - [COMPOSERS OF BARNES: The Flow of Inspiration](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/composer-of-barnes-the-flow-of-inspiration/) - Having spent many hours waiting at the bus stop outside Holst's house, and having often spotted Stephen Dodgson at the Music Festival, I long knew of both composers’ links with leafy Barnes... - [GEORGE LLOYD: Requiem / Psalm 130](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/george-lloyd-requiem-psalm-130/) - George Lloyd finished his final score, the Requiem for counter-tenor, choir and organ, just a month before his death in 1998. Dedicated to the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, it is a work on a grand scale... - [KENNETH V. JONES: Chamber Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/kenneth-v-jones-chamber-music/) - Throughout there is intriguing use of hushed echo effects and flutter-tonguing, while the finale picks up the tempo to achieve a rather abrupt ‘Ta Da!’ positive conclusion... - [DANZA GAYA: Music for Two Pianos](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/danza-gaya-music-for-two-pianos/) - The majority of the music on this disc is by Madeline Dring, a prodigiously gifted musician who died far too young of a cerebral haemorrhage... - [DANZA GAYA: Music for Two Pianos](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/danza-gaya-music-for-two-pianos/) - The majority of the music on this disc is by Madeline Dring, a prodigiously gifted musician who died far too young of a cerebral haemorrhage... - [BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Various](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/benjamin-britten-various/) - The disc gets off to a tremendous start with the pounding Ds of the Sinfonia da Requiem’s Lacrymosa leading into the heart wrenching melody... - [Book records neglected British repertoire](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/book-records-neglected-british-repertoire/) - A book charting a personal history of 50 years' researching and recording neglected British repertoire was launched in late April by publisher Vocalion Books... - [Private viewing of John McCabe video](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/private-viewing-of-john-mccabe-video/) - The video tribute to John McCabe, first screened at the BMS AGM in October last year, can be viewed by members only on a private online platform for three days in July... - [RVW Premiere at music festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/rvw-premiere-at-music-festival/) - The English Music Festival in May will include the World Premiere of the 'Richard II' Concert Fantasy by Ralph Vaughan Williams... - [Elgar Festival 2024](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/elgar-festival-2024/) - The Elgar Festival is an annual live celebration of the life and music of Worcester’s most famous son and Britain’s great composer... - [Festival discount offer for BMS members](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/festival-discount-offer-for-bms-members/) - BMS members can buy tickets for events at The London Song Festival Summer Series in June at the concession price of just £15... - [STEPHEN DODGSON: Mirage](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/stephen-dodgson-mirage/) - Stephen Dodgson was an accomplished and highly professional composer whose music, for some unaccountable reason, did not attract the attention it deserved... - [FREDERICK DELIUS: Hassan](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/frederick-delius-hassan/) - Though I am willing to be corrected, I think this is the first time that the whole of the Hassan score has been recorded, though some excerpts are of course very familiar... - [BORN BY THE THAMES](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/born-by-the-thames/) - Dodgson, a distant cousin to Lewis Carroll, was a prolific and highly accomplished composer whose lyrical and approachable output has not yet had its due... - [New hymn written for Music Sunday](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/new-hymn-written-for-music-sunday/) - Award-winning British composer Thomas Hewitt Jones has written a new hymn especially for the Royal School of Church Music's Big Hymn Sing for Music Sunday... - [Summer Music in City Churches](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/summer-music-in-city-churches/) - The London-based festival promises 10 days of concerts of beautiful music, programmed around themes of love, romance and Shakespeare... - [A piano for Music at Stow](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/a-new-piano-for-stow/) - Music at Stow has started a crowdfunding project to raise £25,000 to fund a new grand piano which will reside at St Edward's Church, Stow... - [FRANCIS GRIER: Organ Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/04/francis-grier-organ-works/) - Stephen Farr is a most committed advocate for this music, apparently making light of the formidable technical difficulties. Perhaps because Grier is also a virtuoso keyboard player, he feels no necessity to make any concessions to human frailty... - [Only the Notes You Need](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/03/only-the-notes-you-need/) - Adam Pounds recalls three years of study with Lennox Berkeley... - [Concert to celebrate Anthony Gilbert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/01/concert-to-celebrate-anthony-gilbert/) - To celebrate the life and achievements of distinguished composer Anthony Gilbert there will be a concert in April... - [MICHAEL ZEV GORDON: Diary Pieces](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/03/michael-zev-gordon-diary-pieces/) - This disc contains music of a much more personal nature, almost a personal journal, consisting of eight groups of seven very short piano pieces... - [GEORGE LLOYD: The Symphonies Nos. 7-12](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/03/george-lloyd-symphonies-7-12/) - It is an extraordinary journey to hear the whole of George Lloyd’s symphonies over a single period of time, a psychodrama if ever there was one... - [ELISABETH LUTYENS: Piano Music Volume 3](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/03/elisabeth-lutyens-piano-music-volume-3/) - It must be remembered that Lutyens earned her living by composing incidental and film music, always just hitting on the right mood and the right time... - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A Birthday Garland](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/03/vaughan-williams-a-birthday-garland/) - 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... - [Festival director dies aged 75](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/03/festival-director-dies-aged-75/) - Stewart Robertson's long tenure at Glimmerglass Festival was characterised by his commitment to artistic excellence and dedication to fostering creativity and talent within the operatic community... - [Monthly music digest](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/03/monthly-music-digest-2/) - Our round-up of some of the music-related stories hitting the headlines in the past month... - [BMS member discount for revised Stanford book](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/03/bms-member-discount-for-revised-stanford-book/) - 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... - [CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: Shamus O'Brien](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/03/charles-villiers-stanford-shamus-obrien/) - Shamus O’Brien, first performed in 1896, was Stanford’s most successful opera. Well-known names of the period were involved in its performances... - [MICHAEL FINNISSY: Alternative Readings](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/03/michael-finnissy-alternative-readings/) - Michael Finnissy is one of the most articulate and prolific composers of his generation, generally bracketed with other pioneers... - [DUO MENURIDA: In Two Minds](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/03/duo-menurida-in-two-minds/) - All Cowie’s life experiences and interests come together somewhere across the eight highly pictorial pieces on the CD... - [Constant Lambert arrangement to premiere](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/03/constant-lambert-transcription-to-premiere/) - The world premiere of a transcription of Constant Lambert’s ballet score Horoscope will take place in April... - [NICOLA LEFANU: Chamber Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/03/nicola-lefanu-chamber-music/) - Music spanning about 46 composing years demonstrating a clarity of utterance and a high integrity is contained on this well-filled disc... - [REBECCA CLARKE: Sonatas for Violin, Viola & Piano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/03/rebecca-clarke-sonatas-for-violin-viola-piano/) - ...to my knowledge this is the first time the three Sonatas have appeared on the same disc, and played by the same violinist/violist... - [LA BELLE DAME](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/03/la-belle-dame-vocal-scenes-with-orchestra/) - A slightly dry acoustic sometimes robs this music of a little aural glamour, and the performances are good, if occasionally a little polite. The booklet is an absolute model... - [CYRIL SCOTT: Piano Sonata No. 1](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/03/cyril-scott-piano-sonata-no-1/) - While the recording is as good as ever from this eminent label, this is a disc to which I will (have to) return, and it is strongly recommended to the patient and dedicated... - [Rare Alan Bush performance](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/01/rare-alan-bush-performance/) - A rarely heard piece of music by Alan Bush was performed by BMS member Dominic Daula at a festival in Cape Town last autumn... - [JACQUES COHEN: Various](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/02/jacques-cohen-various/) - ... the Tippett Quartet prove great advocates, approaching all challenges with their customary fearlessness and expertise. - [Durham students mark female composer](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/02/durham-students-mark-female-composer/) - In the run-up to International Women’s Day, Durham students are celebrating the music of an alumna whose composing career began at the university 70 years ago... - [Welcome to new members](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/02/welcome-to-new-members-4/) - We welcome four new members who have joined the Society since the start of 2024... - [LUMINOS: Contemporary Music for Clarinets](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/02/luminos-contemporary-music-for-clarinets/) - Given a crystal-clear recording, this excellent Métier disc makes the perfect case for some striking, challenging and ultimately rewarding music... - [CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: Cushendall](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/02/charles-villiers-stanford-cushendall/) - This is surely the first time that these song cycles, five of them, have been put together on a CD, and it is a very good idea to share them between two fine singers who have ideal voices for this repertoire... - [RICHARD BLACKFORD: Various](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/02/richard-blackford/) - Richard Blackford who is 70 this year has developed an international career. He is a very fine composer of the type of music, we need in the present day... - [English Music Festival unveils programme](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/02/english-music-festival-unveils-programme-2/) - The 17th annual English Music Festival (EMF) returns to Oxfordshire from 24 May to 27 May 2024. - [Honouring Sir John Manduell](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/02/honoring-sir-john-manduell/) - A bust of Sir John will be unveiled in the main reception of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester on Friday 21 June... - [GEORGE LLOYD: The Symphonies 1-6](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/02/george-lloyd-symphonies-1-6/) - Lyrita has announced that George Lloyd’s complete recordings will be released in a new ‘Signature Edition’ during 2024. Clearly this is good news... - [RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/02/ralph-vaughan-williams-serenade-to-music/) - ... what makes this CD unique is that each of the other singers is given a moment to shine on their own, in recordings transferred brilliantly from 78s... - [RICHARD BLACKFORD: Songs of Nadia Anjuman](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/02/richard-blackford-songs-of-nadia-anjuman/) - Richard Blackford has chosen a group of poems which vividly expresses the stark contrasts in Anjuman’s own life. The joy in her own creativity, black despair at the absence of personal freedom, and even the possibility of self-destruction... - ['Quintessential Quintets' concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/02/quintessential-quintets-concert/) - Pianist Mark Bebbington and string principals from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra are presenting under-performed British chamber works of the early 20th century in March... - [Chair of trustees sought](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/02/chair-of-trustees-sought/) - The Ina Boyle Society is seeking a new Chair of Trustees... - [CHROMOSPHERE](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/02/chromosphere/) - Each of the five composers inhabits a different sound world, so there is a variety of contrasting musical idioms which makes for a satisfying listen, even all in one sitting. - [Windrush commission to be performed](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/02/windrush/) - The Dionysus Ensemble has commissioned English composer Ayanna Witter-Johnson to write Windrush Reflections which the group will perform at a concert in March... - [RAVEL, BERKELEY & POUNDS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/01/ravel-berkeley-pounds/) - An odd sort of programme? Well, no. The link is that Berkeley received informal lessons from Ravel and Pounds from Berkeley... - [DREAMS DESIRES DESOLATION: English Song](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/01/dreams-desires-desolation-english-song/) - This is a generous recital of 21 songs composed by English composers, largely in the first half of the 20th century, and includes some outstanding examples... - [Monthly Arts Digest](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/01/monthly-arts-digest/) - Arts funding cuts by one county council and the impact of AI on classical music were in the news last month... - [Richard Lambert CD launched](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/01/richard-lambert-cd-launched/) - Toccata Classics has launched a CD of the choral music of Richard Lambert... - [Remembering Karel Janovicky](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/01/remembering-karel-janovicky/) - The Czech composer Karel Janovicky died in London recently at the age of 93. Karel lived in London most of his life, having fled his home country – then Czechoslovakia... - [Launch of new book of Thomas Pitfield](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/01/launch-of-new-book-of-thomas-pitfield/) - Forsyths are publishing a lavishly illustrated 500 page hardback book about the composer Thomas Pitfield... - [CHRISTOPHER BROWN: 24 Preludes and Fugues](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/01/christopher-brown-24-preludes-and-fugues/) - It is a brave composer who chooses to write a set of preludes and fugues in all the major and minor keys as, consciously, or subconsciously, instant comparison with the sets by JS Bach and Shostakovich will occur... - [Society seeks Digital Marketing Manager](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/01/society-seeks-digital-marketing-manager/) - The Malcolm Arnold Society is keen to find an experienced digital media person for the voluntary role of Digital Marketing Manager... - [IVOR GURNEY: Piano Sonatas](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/01/ivor-gurney-piano-sonatas/) - George Rowley plays the published five Preludes with fluidity and understanding. However, the chief interest of this disc arises from three piano sonatas... - [RONALD STEVENSON and Friends](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2024/01/ronald-stevenson-and-friends/) - Lightly scored for mainly solos and duets, this disc is perfect for a quiet evening in front of a log fire when peace prevails and the listening required is not too demanding... - [British composers feature in two album launches](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/12/british-composers-feature-in-two-album-launches/) - This unique and groundbreaking new classical music album is the first of its kind devoted entirely to new music written for the woodwind orchestra... - [ELGAR: Orchestral Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/12/elgar-orchestral-music/) - The London Symphony Orchestra’s association with Elgar goes right back to their very first season in 1904 when the great man conducted them... - [A CELTIC LEGACY: The Music of the O'Donnell Brothers](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/12/a-celtic-legacy-the-music-of-the-odonnell-brothers/) - 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... - [Three Choirs celebrates anniversaries](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/12/three-choirs-celebrates-stanford-and-holst-anniversaries/) - Lesser known repertoire by mostly British composers including Stanford and Holst feature in the newly released evening programmes for the 2024 Three Choirs Festival... - [Bite-Back: CD reviews - dead or alive?](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/12/bite-back-cd-reviews-dead-or-alive/) - I was pleased to see Dr Maxwell's letter in the December E-News... because it raises some interesting points regarding the original formation of the British Music Society... - [January 2024 news digest](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/12/january-2024-news-digest/) - A look at some of the stories and issues affecting the musical world including ENO on the move and a big sale at the Royal Albert Hall... - [A COCKTAIL OF HAPPINESS: The music of Fred Hartley](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/12/a-cocktail-of-happiness-the-music-of-fred-hartley/) - Hartley was clearly a gifted musician as all of the original works and the arrangements are aurally stunning... - [Searching for Bryson manuscripts](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/11/search-for-bryson-manuscripts/) - A member is searching for any information regarding the whereabouts of the original manuscripts of Ernest Bryson who died in 1942... - [CD reviews - dead or alive?](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/11/cd-reviews-dead-or-alive/) - 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)... - [HOWARD BLAKE: Orchestral Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/11/howard-blake-orchestral-music/) - This latest SOMM disc is devoted to orchestral music to mark the 85th birthday of Howard Blake. Mr Blake has been a key figure in British musical life for over 60 years... - [JOANNA FORBES L'ESTRANGE: Heaven To Earth](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/11/joanna-forbes-lestrange-heaven-to-earth/) - Joanna Forbes L’Estrange has had a notable career in choral music, having been a performer and director of ensembles such as the Swingle Singers and Tenebrae... - [ELIZABETH POSTON: Carols and Anthems](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/11/elizabeth-poston-carols-and-anthems/) - Central to the recording is The Nativity, A Sequence for Christmas. This CD offers the world première recording of the work... - [DAVID LANCASTER: Apocalypse](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/11/david-lancaster-apocalypse/) - All three works on this recording of choral music by David Lancaster are distinctive, unique even... - [Sir John Barbirolli: a life story in plaques](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/11/sir-john-barbirolli-a-life-story-in-plaques/) - Most British musicians are lucky if they are celebrated by just one plaque. But we have found at least three for this famous musician, one of the most important conductors of the 20th century... - [Monthly Music Digest](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/11/monthly-music-digest/) - Introducing a new, regular feature - a summary of stories from the last month about the musical world… - [Call for BMS CD reviewers](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/11/call-for-bms-cd-reviewers/) - If you love listening to music and have a good musical knowledge, could you be a reviewer for BMS? - [WILLIAM WORDSWORTH & OTHERS: Piano Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/11/william-wordsworth-others-piano-music/) - No, not the poet, but the great-great-grandson of brother Christopher. He is claimed by both Scotland and England but he did not come permanently to Scotland till he was 53... - [JACK SHEPPARD: A Victorian Melodrama](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/11/jack-sheppard-a-victorian-melodrama/) - Jack Sheppard was one of the most successful 19th century melodramas. The hero, or rather, anti-hero, was a real person, a celebrated jail-break... - [A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS: Orchestral Music for Christmas](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/11/a-childs-christmas-orchestral-music-for-christmas/) - A Child’s Christmas is an apposite title for an enchanting collection of orchestral music for Christmas, curated by Phillip Lane who is one of eight English composers represented... - [BMS AGM 2023 report](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/10/bms-agm-2023-report/) - We were a cosy gathering in the attractively refurbished BFI foyer and screening room 2 for this year's AGM on 27 October 2023... - [DODGSON: The Distances Between](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/10/dodgson-the-distances-between/) - As ever with SOMM, both the performances (by some prestigious names) and the warm lifelike recording are impeccable... - [Chairman reflects on her six year tenure](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/09/chairman-reflects-on-her-six-year-tenure/) - It is with some sadness and not a little regret that I come to the end of my period as Chairman of the British Music Society. My six years in this position have seen many developments and achievements for which the Society may be justly proud... - [BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY: Chairman's Report](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/10/british-music-society-chairmans-report/) - The Chairman's Report from the British Music Society AGM held on 27 October 2023 at the British Film Institute in London... - [The English Tenor](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/10/the-english-tenor/) - The generously-filled CD may never have been recorded if it hadn’t been for Shaw’s sheer determination... - [HARVEY GRACE: Resurgam](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/10/harvey-grace-resurgam/) - I had not heard of Harvey Grace who, like Alec Rowley, was influential in his lifetime, but is now largely forgotten. This new CD suggests that such neglect is undeserved... - [Elgar in Settle](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/10/elgar-in-settle/) - Blue plaques there seem to be a plenty, but if you look carefully, you might well stumble across one which is not blue and in a place you might not expect... - [CHARLES HUBERT PARRY: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/10/parry-piano-music/) - Here is only the second recording of Parry’s two Piano Sonatas from 1876... - [PHILIP SAWYERS: Mayflower on the Sea of Time](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/10/philip-sawyer-mayflower-on-the-sea-of-time/) - In the last 20 years the music of Philip Sawyers has emerged from obscurity into the limelight making a considerable impression... - [CHINWE D. JOHN: Songs for Our Times](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/10/chinwe-d-john-songs-for-our-times/) - Chinwe begins ‘These are the days of turbulent living’ more true today than ever surely! How are we to find solutions to the world’s troubles?... - [BMS Ambassador report](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/10/bms-ambassador-report/) - I was delighted to be invited back to Kansas State University to give this well attended class in British music for string players... - [AYANNA WITTER-JOHNSON: Ocean Floor](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/10/ayanna-witter-johnson-ocean-floor/) - Both as composer and astoundingly as a performer, Ayanna Witter-Johnson is unique. In Unconditionally, her opening number, she sings, she plays cello, while her foot taps a percussion block... - [STANFORD: Requiem, Op. 63](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/10/stanford-requiem-op-63/) - The world has never exactly abounded in first-rate Requiem settings, a fact which renders all the more unfortunate the persistent neglect of Stanford’s contribution to the genre... - [ALEC ROWLEY: Organ Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/10/alec-rowley-organ-works/) - Alec Rowley is a largely forgotten composer these days and that is a pity for his music is well worth getting to know... - [How an ancient carol was brought back to life](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/10/how-an-ancient-carol-was-brought-back-to-life/) - Over 50 year ago, the British folk rock band, Steeleye Span turned a half-forgotten 16th century Christmas Carol, Gaudete, into a pioneering recording... - [New Rutter release of orchestral carols](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/10/new-rutter-release-of-orchestral-carols/) - A new EP of Rutter Orchestral Carols featuring the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge will be released next month... - [BARRY MILLS: Winter Images](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/09/barry-mills-winter-images/) - Mills paints pictures with his music. Actually, these are not just still pictures, they are motion pictures. Movement is so very crucial to his music... - [EDWARD COWIE: Where the Wood Thrush Forever Sings](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/09/edward-cowie-where-the-wood-thrush-forever-sings/) - Following on from his birdsong cycles of Great Britain and Australia, Edward Cowie’s latest two-disc set explores birds of the USA... - [Peter Racine Fricker - a personal tribute](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/09/peter-racine-fricker-a-personal-tribute/) - It must have been quite a thrill for the 34-year-old Peter Racine Fricker to discover his name in Kingsley Amis’s first novel, which would go on to win the Somerset Maugham Award in 1955... - [C H H PARRY: Prometheus Unbound](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/09/c-h-h-parry-prometheus-unbound/) - Parry’s Prometheus Unbound has suffered decades of neglect, the only recent performance being in 1980. It now finds a champion in William Vann... - [GWYN PRITCHARD: Features and Formations](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/09/gwyn-pritchard-features-and-formations/) - Features and Formations, released to celebrate Gwyn Pritchard's 75th birthday, includes five ensemble works... - [ISOTONIC: Commissions for Clarinet](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/09/isotonic-commissions-for-clarinet/) - This disc is testimony to the artistry of clarinettist Robert Plane who features in all four works all of which he also premièred. He is clearly a phenomenal player... - [Sir Arthur Bliss: Standing out from the Crowd](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/09/sir-arthur-bliss-standing-out-from-the-crowd/) - It seems quite extraordinary that it has taken almost half a century since his death for a biography of such a significant figure as Sir Arthur Bliss to appear... - [COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Piano Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/09/coleridge-taylor-piano-music/) - Until this past year or so the only works I had ever heard by Coleridge-Taylor were, of course the Hiawatha Cantatas and the Violin Concerto. Now he seems to be everywhere... - [Hello to new members](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/08/hello-to-new-members-2/) - A warm welcome to the following who have recently become members of the British Music Society... - [Alexander Goehr book launch in Manchester](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/09/alexander-goehr-book-launch-in-manchester/) - American composer Jack Van Zandt launches his new book celebrating the life and work of composer Alexander Goehr... - [Festival celebrates Sir Malcolm Arnold](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/09/festival-celebrates-malcolm-arnold/) - One of England’s most colourful and charismatic composers – Sir Malcolm Arnold – is to be celebrated across three days during October... - [Noel Gay: blue plaque challenge](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/09/noel-gay-blue-plaque-challenge/) - Another blue plaque has been spotted in Wakefield in West Yorkshire. This one is outside the Cathedral and celebrates the birth of composer Noel Gay... - [Wanted: Lyrita records and more!](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/09/wanted-lyrita-records-and-more/) - Perhaps you have Lyrita records that you do not play any longer and would like to sell... - [Blue plaques: scheme may expand](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/09/blue-plaques-english-heritage-scheme-could-expand/) - BMS has frequently featured blue plaques celebrating British musicians. Now, the government is suggesting a single nationwide system could be rolled out to enable more blue plaques in England... - [AGM2023 - reserve your place now](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/09/agm2023-reserve-your-place/) - The 2023 AGM of the British Music Society will be held on Friday 27 October at 2pm... - [Learning to Be a Composer](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/04/learning-to-be-a-composer/) - Thea Musgrave had every intention of becoming a medical research doctor when she entered her home city’s Edinburgh University in 1947... - [BRITISH PIANO CONCERTOS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/08/british-piano-concertos-2/) - This marvellously enterprising and revelatory disc opens with a work which deserves one’s full attention. Gordon Jacob’s 1957 Piano Concerto No 2, which is on a large canvas of over 30 minutes duration... - [PETER WARLOCK: Maltworms & Milkmaids](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/08/peter-warlock-maltworms-milkmaids/) - Warlock’s music, though limited in quantity, covers a wide inspirational range... we find a veritable treasure house of Warlock’s music, mostly songs for soloists or choir... - [PENELOPE THWAITES: Gardens, Fables, Prisons, Dreams](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/08/penelope-thwaites-gardens-fables-prisons-dreams/) - British/Australian composer and concert pianist Penelope Thwaites' new CD offers first recordings of eight chamber compositions. All the music is without exception instantly attractive and inviting... - [DAVID POWER: 29 Songs 1985-2016](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/08/david-power-29-songs-1985-2016/) - David Power’s songs cover a remarkably wide range of subjects and musical practice. I found Power’s word settings hugely entertaining, and William Vann’s piano performance absolutely enthralling... - [Searching for the Bulletins](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/08/searching-for-the-bulletins/) - As an amateur pilgrim wending his way through British music of the last century I was very pleased indeed to find free access online to copies of The Composer - the magazine of the Composers Guild of Great Britain... - [ENCHANTED PLACES](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/08/enchanted-places/) - The Hums of Pooh are delightfully eccentric. How Sweet to be a Cloud has charmingly graphic and atmospheric music. Sing Ho! For the Life of a Bear reminds us that Pooh’s particular obsession is with honey or, as he spells it, hunny... - [On the trail of Phyllis Lett](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/08/on-the-trail-of-phyllis-lett/) - Continuing our series about blue plaques with a name perhaps less familiar, the contralto Phyllis Lett whose ‘great courage and devotion knew no bounds'... - [In Memoriam: Carl Davis and Bernard Keeffe](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/08/in-memoriam-carl-davis-and-bernard-keefe/) - We say farewell to two high profile musicians who died recently… - [New releases from Toccata Next](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/08/new-releases-from-toccata-next/) - Two highly contrasted albums will be launched on 15 September by Toccata Next... - [Peter Dickinson: a personal recollection](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/07/peter-dickinson-a-personal-recollection/) - Peter Dickinson was the most knowledgeable, the most erudite, the most inquisitive, the most literary, and altogether the most interesting composer I have ever known... - [PAMELA HARRISON: Chamber Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/07/pamela-harrison-chamber-music/) - I must confess that Pamela Harrison is a new name to me and that is exactly the reason why music by 20th Century women composers needs the efforts of groups like the Gould Piano Trio and their supporting colleagues... - [METAMORPHOSIS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/07/metamorphosis/) - The composers could not have asked for a better advocate than Duncan Honeybourne. He plays each piece with complete conviction... - [VIOLIN CONVERSATIONS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/07/violin-conversations/) - Madeleine Mitchell has been described on BBC Radio 3 as ‘the consummate violinist’. Proof of that comes royally throughout this CD where she performs the music of ten 20th century and contemporary composers... - [NARESH SOHAL: Complete Piano Music & Piano Trio](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/07/naresh-sohal-complete-piano-music-piano-trio/) - Destounis is brilliantly on top of every note. The piano is actually a percussion instrument. The intensity of percussiveness stands out proudly in Sohal’s piano music... - [MALCOLM LIPKIN: Piano Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/07/malcolm-lipkin-piano-music/) - Malcolm Lipkin was hardly a high-profile figure – perhaps more admired than acclaimed. His flame has been kept alight by Lyrita and others... - [GEOFFREY ALLEN: Complete Piano Sonatas](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/07/geoffrey-allen-complete-piano-sonatas/) - As a tag-line at the head of his bountiful programme notes, pianist Murray McLachlan asks us a question, 'Geoffrey Allan – The Pianist’s Havergal Brian?’ - [John Ireland 'The Overlanders'](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/07/john-ireland-the-overlanders/) - Whilst organ scholar at Worcester Cathedral this year, I felt that that the many colours of the Cathedral organ could capture the richness of John Ireland’s film score... - [An appreciation: Anthony Gilbert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/07/an-appreciation-anthony-gilbert/) - Tony was one of the finest composers of his generation. I hope that this appreciation of Tony and his music will draw attention to his work and prompt anyone unfamiliar with it to start a voyage of discovery... - [New Talent Festival 2023](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/07/new-talent-festival-2023/) - BMS member Amy Yuan is to be congratulated on another successful New Talent Festival held at the Royal Academy of Music, London... - [PENLLYN: Solo Piano Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/07/penllyn-solo-piano-music/) - Production values throughout are consistently high – thank heavens for pianists as reliably resourceful and adventurous as Duncan Honeybourne, always willing to investigate uncharted territory... - [PAUL CONWAY: Moorland Symphonies](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/07/paul-conway-moorland-symphonies/) - Paul Conway’s vivid and highly readable descriptions, precise and analytical, yet not overburdened with detail, do much to bring many unknown pieces to life... - [Violin Conversations London launch](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/06/violin-conversations-london-launch/) - The intimate setting of London’s 1901 Arts Club in Waterloo was filled to capacity on 21 June 2023 for the launch of Madeleine Mitchell’s latest CD Violin Conversations... - [RICHARD PANTCHEFF: Music for Organ and other Instruments](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/06/richard-pancheff-music-for-organ/) - Here we have a CD with music that will be enjoyed by the general audience along with the six Chorale Preludes which will surely impress the serious organist... - [WINDOWS: Works for Trombone](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/06/windows-works-for-trombone/) - Before receiving this disc, I had never heard of Benjamin Ellin, but I am very glad I now know his music. He is a highly accomplished English conductor and composer... - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The First Songs of Travel](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/06/vaughan-williams-the-first-songs-of-travel/) - This is a reissue of a recital by bass baritone Richard Standen accompanied by Frederick Stone. The sound quality is astonishingly clear. It could have been recorded yesterday... - [BARRY SEAMAN: Imagine Two Rivers](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/06/barry-seaman-imagine-two-rivers/) - The notes do not tell us much about the music, but many heartfelt testimonials attest to the impact the composer must have made on all those he encountered... - [BAGATELLES](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/06/bagatelles/) - Bernard Hughes has a wide-ranging knowledge of music, married to an insightful and idiosyncratic sense of humour. I was amused by some of the quirky titles of his pieces... - [EVERY LIVING CREATURE](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/06/every-living-creature/) - Kenneth Leighton is remembered chiefly for his choral compositions, yet 12 of the items on this CD are only now receiving their première recordings... - [PAUL HENLEY: Works for String Quartet](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/06/paul-henley-works-for-string-quartet/) - Paul Henley’s music for string quartet consists of two full String Quartets followed by two attractive single movement works for the same forces... - [DAVID GOLIGHTLY: Letters of Regret](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/06/david-golightly-letters-of-regret/) - David Golightly had strong Russian connections (and enjoyed his biggest professional triumphs there) so it may be no surprise to find that influence reflected in this two CD set... - [FOLK SONGS OF THE BRITISH ISLES](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/06/folk-songs-of-the-british-isles/) - Proceeds from this CD will be donated to a bursary in memory of the late Gwyn Williams, Principal Viola of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra... - [FROM THE AIRWAVES](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/06/from-the-airwaves/) - The musicianship is highly accomplished and polished, while the recording is beyond criticism as we have come to expect from this label... - [Welcome to new members](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/06/welcome-to-new-members-3/) - This month we welcome Malcolm Sinclair and Robert Tuckett to the Society... - [Wonderland: The Alice Sound](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/06/wonderland-the-alice-sound/) - Delve into the captivating world of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books with brand-new music created by Scottish composer Paul Rissmann... - [Ticket discount offer for Bantock premiere at LSF](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/06/ticket-discount-offer-for-bantock-premiere-at-lsf/) - Forbidden Love is the theme for this year’s London Song Festival which includes the world premiere of The Sphinx, a song cycle by Sir Granville Bantock... - [SHADOW DANCES](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/05/shadow-dances/) - There is a wealth of British music for flute and piano, and it must have been tricky trying to work out what to include on this disc when there is such an embarrassment of riches... - [ELGAR, GURNEY: A New Light](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/05/elgar-gurney-a-new-light/) - Ivor Gurney tends to be loosely bracketed with the ‘folksong’ school, but his idiosyncratic style is notably different from that of Holst or Vaughan-Williams; in particular his melodic lines... - [New fund launched to support British music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/05/new-fund-launched-to-support-british-music/) - A new charity has announced £12,000 in grants to support performances of works by British composers... - [Spiritual Dimensions in the Music of Edmund Rubbra](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/05/spiritual-dimensions-in-the-music-of-edmund-rubbra/) - This is a book that was waiting to be written and needed to be, as the associates, pupils and family who knew Rubbra, the man and the composer, are dwindling... - [ERIC COATES: Orchestral Works Volume 3](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/05/eric-coates-orchestral-works-volume-3/) - I get the impression that this repertoire is not heard as frequently as two or three generations ago, so having such stalwart support from such a fine conductor as John Wilson is a valuable promotion of what I suggest is a very interesting repertoire... - [RICHARD PANTCHEFF: Passacaglia](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/05/richard-pantcheff-passacaglia/) - As a young composer, Pantcheff was mentored by Benjamin Britten... he was the ideal choice to write a piece in celebration of Britten’s Centenary Celebrations in 2013... - [RICHARD HARVEY: Easter Songs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/05/richard-harvey-easter-songs/) - There are just three songs on this CD totalling just over 15 minutes of music. What is lacking in quantity is certainly not lacking in quality... - [ELGAR: Choral Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/05/elgar-choral-works/) - Sir Edward Elgar’s three large choral works were all composed in the first years of the twentieth century. This valuable six CD set brings together recordings made earlier by the Hallé Orchestra and choruses under Sir Mark Elder... - [DODGSON & MACONCHY: Inventions](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/05/dogson-maconchy-inventions/) - This disc consists of two major works by Stephen Dodgson and two smaller ones by his older contemporary Elizabeth Maconchy, and quite contrasted they are although there are some points of similarity... - [RUTLAND BOUGHTON: Of Delights and Passions](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/05/rutland-boughton-of-delights-and-passions/) - After a recent hiatus it is good to see a new disc of Boughton's mellifluous music, all but one track being (surprisingly) world première recordings... - [Obituary: Hilary Tann](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/05/obituary-hilary-tann/) - Hilary Tann has died at the age of 75, and her successful career as a composer is well worth celebrating... - [Naxos to release Violin Conversations](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/05/naxos-to-release-violin-conversations/) - Madeleine Mitchell’s new album, Violin Conversations, of mostly recent British music, is to be released in June... - [Malcolm Lipkin concert and CD launch](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/05/malcolm-lipkin-concert-and-cd-launch/) - All but six years have passed since Malcolm Lipkin's death in June 2017. Happily his musical profile has not been eclipsed as sometimes happens but, rather, enhanced... - [WILLIAM ALWYN: String Quartets](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/05/william-alwyn-string-quartets/) - Alwyn wrote sixteen Quartets, thirteen of them before 1931. He became dissatisfied with them as most were student compositions and started up again over twenty years later... - [Obituary: David Ellis](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/05/obituary-david-ellis/) - David Ellis, who has died aged 90, was a multi-talented musician, being as well as a distinguished composer, a music administrator, an arranger, and a big band director and pianist... - [Project to promote music to brass bands](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/05/project-to-promote-music-to-brass-bands/) - The Holst Society and the Malcolm Arnold Society have announced a joint collaboration to deliver the brass music of two of the UK’s best-known composers to the brass band community... - [IAN VENABLES/VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Portraits of a Mind](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/04/ian-venables-vaughan-williams-portraits-of-a-mind/) - Portraits of a Mind is a song cycle commissioned from the contemporary composer Ian Venables by The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth... - [Bantock premiere at the LSF](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/04/bantock-premiere-at-the-lsf/) - The London Song Festival is appealing for funds to stage the world premiere of Granville Bantock's Oscar Wilde song cycle, The Sphinx, in August... - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphonies 7 (Antartica) & 9](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/04/vaughan-williams-symphonies-7-9/) - Recordings of VW Symphonies are very numerous, and it is hardly a secret that this is a very competitive field. This issue completes Martin Brabbins’s view of the canon in most splendid style... - [GERALD HENDRIE: Complete Organ Music Volume One](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/04/gerald-hendrie-complete-organ-music-volume-one/) - In their introduction to Volume One of the Complete Organ Music of Gerald Hendrie, Toccata Classics stress the wide range of his influences and the resultant variety in his compositional styles... - [Offer to BMS members: Finzi memorabilia](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/04/offer-to-bms-members-finzi-memorabilia/) - Ken Talbot of the Malcolm Arnold Society is generously offering to donate the following items to anyone who may have an interest - some of the contents of Gerald Finzi’s personal library... - [Elgar Festival 2023: We are the Music Makers](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/04/elgar-festival-2023-we-are-the-music-makers/) - Lauded as ‘Critic’s Pick’ in both The Guardian and The Times, The Elgar Festival is an annual live celebration of the life and music of Worcester’s most famous son and Britain’s great composer... - [80th birthday concerts for John Turner](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/04/80th-birthday-concerts-for-john-turner/) - Two concerts in March and April this year celebrated the music John Turner has dedicated himself to promulgating... - [PHILLIP COOKE: Transfiguration](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/04/phillip-cooke-transfiguration/) - Performed radiantly by virtuoso pianist Duncan Honeybourne, this double CD Album presents the piano music of Phillip Cooke, Professor of Composition in the Music Department at the University of Aberdeen... - [PETER WISHART: Silver Stridencies of Sound](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/04/peter-wishart-silver-stridencies-of-sound/) - The title of this CD featuring 22 of the solo songs of Peter Wishart comes from a line in the second stanza of his song The Magpie... - [Welcome to new members](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/04/welcome-to-new-members-2/) - We are delighted to welcome three new members this month: Malcolm Sinclair, Matthew Owens and Stephen Hartley... - [EROICA](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/04/tovey-sammons-elgar-eroica/) - All of the music, by the three different composers on this CD, is for unaccompanied violin. Rupert Marshall-Luck gives gold-medal performances of works that appeal on two different levels... - [Get ready for New Talent Festival 2023](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/04/get-ready-for-new-talent-festival-2023/) - This international competition, supported by BMS, is bouncing back with renewed vigour after the challenges of the pandemic... - [The 16th English Music Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/04/the-16th-english-music-festival/) - The English Music Festival taking place in late May celebrates the brilliance, innovation, beauty and rich musical heritage of Britain... - [DORA BRIGHT: Her Life and Works in the Public Eye](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/04/dora-bright-her-life-and-works-in-the-public-eye/) - Anthony Bilton has released this biography in the series Women in Music which celebrates a now largely forgotten English concert pianist and composer... - [ROBERT MATTHEW-WALKER](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/03/robert-matthew-walker/) - The eight works in this recording of the piano music of Robert Matthew-Walker are remarkably varied, although a unified stylistic undercurrent runs through them all - [Alan Bush collection at the British Library](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/03/alan-bush-collection-at-the-british-library/) - I was handed over the correspondence of Alan Bush and James May, dating from 1965 until 1976... - [ADRIAN WILLIAMS: Orchestral Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/03/adrian-williams-orchestral-works/) - Adrian Williams has been living in the Welsh Border country for many years and, like myself, he has found its remote and often empty and forgotten landscape an inspiration... - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Live Vol 4](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/03/vaughan-williams-live-vol-4/) - Ariadne’s magnificent survey of historic performances of Vaughan Williams music shows no sign of flagging with this release of recordings from the 1940s, 50s and 60s... - [WILLIAM SMETHERGELL: Six Overtures](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/03/william-smethergell-six-overtures-op-5-vol-1/) - The performances capture the spirit and grace of the music and although one could live without ever hearing it, it is in fact uplifting and joyous... - [ELISABETH LUTYENS: Piano Music Volume 2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/03/elisabeth-lutyens-piano-music-volume-2/) - If I gave three hearty cheers to Volume 1 last year now, I offer even heartier four cheers for Volume 2, mainly because it offers a much wider view of Lutyens development as a composer... - [Welcome to new BMS members](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/03/welcome-to-new-bms-members/) - We are delighted to welcome the following new members to the BMS... - [Omega and Alpha anniversary performance](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/03/omega-and-alpha-anniversary-performance/) - To mark the 10th anniversary of the world premiére of Martin Emslie’s Oratorio, Omega and Alpha, there will be a special performance on 16 April... - [RONALD CORP'S 'FLURRY OF CONCERTS'](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/03/roland-corps-flurry-of-concerts/) - Roland Corp writes about his forthcoming performances and a symphonic premiere... - [HAVERGAL BRIAN: Symphonies](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/03/havergal-brian-symphonies-8-9-22-24/) - Those who know these performances from home tapes or YouTube will be astonished by the depth and scope of sound – this is essential in conveying the full range of Brian’s soundscape... - [PERCY HILDER MILES: Chamber Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/03/percy-hilder-miles-chamber-music-volume-ii/) - Performances, sound, and notes are everything you would expect from this fine label, and if nothing here matches the searing Piano Trio on the earlier disc this remains an eminently worthwhile series... - [In search of Thomas Farren](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/03/in-search-of-thomas-farren/) - Can BMS members help to track down a piece of music from the nineteenth century? - [ROBIN STEVENS: Chasing Shadows](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/03/robin-stevens-chasing-shadows/) - Robin Stevens is one of many composers working outside the ‘new music’ mainstream – insofar as there is one – who clearly deserve greater attention... - [THE MUSIC OF COLIN HAND](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/03/the-music-of-colin-hand/) - Nearly all of the works on this CD are première recordings although the final work, In Nomine 6 for organ is a first CD recording... - [New releases from Toccata Classics](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/03/new-releases-from-toccata-classics/) - Four exciting new releases from Toccata Classics each featuring composers based or born in Great Britain will be available from 7 April... - [NICHOLAS SIMPSON: FASTNESS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/02/nicholas-simpson-fastness/) - I have listened to this disc a few times and I am still not sure what to make of it. He is clearly a skilled composer with a sound knowledge of his craft, but I am just not sure how to place his works... - [A PILGRIM IN COCKAIGNE](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/02/a-pilgrim-in-cockaigne/) - This weighty volume produced to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the London branch of the Elgar Society is a collection of essays... - [BORENSTEIN: Piano Concerto / Shirim / Light & Darkness](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/02/borenstein-piano-concerto-shirim-light-darkness/) - Nimrod Borenstein is clearly doing something right, as he enjoys no shortage of performances, commissions or high-profile advocates... - [New edition of The Crucifixion published](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/02/new-edition-of-stainers-crucifixion-published/) - The Royal School of Church Music has announced the publication of a new critical edition of Sir John Stainer’s The Crucifixion... - [Premiere recording of Ina Boyle's Quartet](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/02/premiere-recording-of-ina-boyles-quartet/) - January saw the launch by The Piatti Quartet of the premiere recording under the Rubicon label of Ina Boyle’s Quartet... - [Book explores British chamber music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/02/book-explores-british-chamber-music/) - Paris in London explores the British chamber music culture before and after 1900... - [Books on offer to BMS members](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/02/books-on-offer-to-bms-members/) - BMS member and singer/songwriter Terry Hiscocks has generously offered a number of books to members... - [British music central to Coronation programme](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/02/british-music-to-be-central-to-coronation-programme/) - Buckingham Palace has announced details of the music which will be performed at the Coronation... - [RUBBRA: THE JADE MOUNTAIN](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/02/rubbra-the-jade-mountain/) - I’ve often wondered when Rubbra’s complete songs might appear on CD. Individual ones can be found in the catalogue, but this disc includes songs which have never been recorded and, in some cases, hardly ever heard... - [SIMON MOLD: Passiontide](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/02/simon-mold-passiontide/) - Passiontide by Simon Mold is described both as 'A Lenten Cantata for soloists, choir and organ’ or ‘Scenes from the Gospels... - [British choral works to be performed in Cheltenham](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/02/british-choral-works-to-be-performed-in-cheltenham/) - There is a rare opportunity next month to hear a live performance of five choral works by Holst... - [Call for BMS reviewers](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/02/call-for-bms-reviewers/) - Members are being invited to review CDs and DVDs for MusicWeb International, the sister website to Seen and Heard... - [Out of the Darkness track remastered](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/02/out-of-the-darkness-track-remastered/) - Music & Media has announced a newly remastered radio edit of The River, the most accessed track from Out of the Darkness by Julian Marshall... - [TOMASSINO: The Enigma of English Mozart](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/02/tomassino-the-enigma-of-english-mozart/) - The first chapter deals with a boating accident on a country estate in Lincolnshire which resulted in Tom’s tragically premature death... - [Holst Society AGM concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/01/holst-society-agm-concert/) - The Holst Society’s AGM will take place on 11 March 2023 in Leckhampton, Cheltenham... - [RVW, HOWELLS, DELIUS & ELGAR](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/01/rvw-howells-delius-elgar/) - If your main interest in this disc is the VW and the Elgar, you would be highly unlikely to be disappointed. These are quite simply magnificent renditions of familiar masterpieces... - [Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/01/vaughan-williams-symphonies-nos-4-5/) - The enterprising Alto label here does the music world a great service by uniting the two conductors in these previously hard-to-get recordings... - [COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Various](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/01/coleridge-taylor-various/) - The more of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s music that becomes available the more it becomes apparent that his tragically early death was a huge loss to the world of music... - [Watch the Malcolm Arnold Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/01/watch-the-malcolm-arnold-festival/) - You can watch the latest Malcolm Arnold Festival free online... - [The Higher Storie](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/01/the-higher-storie/) - This is the first monograph devoted to the music of Alan Ridout, one of the most prolific composers of his time - [Two Violas Now](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/01/two-violas-now/) - The booklet supplied with this CD begins by refuting the idea that music for two of the same instruments is rare in musical history... - [ROBERT SAXTON: Portrait](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2023/01/robert-saxton-portrait/) - This CD has definitely prompted to me look again at Robert Saxton’s whole body of serious work, and I hope it may do the same for many others... - [Tribute: Marcus Blunt](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/12/tribute-marcus-blunt/) - I was much saddened to hear that my old friend Marcus Blunt had passed away after a lengthy illness. He was a fine composer of much music that possessed a fascinating originality... - [COOKE: Organ Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/12/arnold-cooke-organ-music/) - Arnold Cooke composed very little organ music before the 1960s; and so most of it dates from the latter part of his life... - [ARNOLD: Orchestral Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/12/arnold-orchestral-works/) - This is an intriguing programme of orchestral music by Arnold, with examples of his work chosen from four decades of his career and offers some light-hearted offerings alongside weightier material... - [Tribute: BMS founder member Brian Blyth Daubney](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/12/tribute-bms-founder-member-brian-blyth-daubney/) - Composer and poet, Brian Blyth Daubney was an outstanding Founder member of the British Music Society. Joining as member number 44 in 1979, Brian served on the Committee... - [Carols from King's](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/12/carols-from-kings/) - Did you watch or listen to Carols from King’s this year? If so, you are one of many millions of people around the world who have been tuning in for nearly a century... - [Review: London Song Festival Masterclass 2022](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/12/review-london-song-festival-masterclass-2022/) - The annual London Song Festival Masterclass and British Art Song Competition is a combination of public masterclass and competition... - [MACFARREN: The Soldier's Legacy](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/12/macfarren-the-soldiers-legacy/) - The Soldier’s Legacy is a chamber opera in two acts with piano accompaniment and just four characters. There is also a small part for harmonium depicting the voice of Bully, the bullfinch, a caged bird... - [HOLST: Choral music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/12/holst-choral-music/) - This recording by the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea directed by William Vann is unlikely ever to be equalled, certainly never bettered... - [John Ireland Trust reports on a busy 2022](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/12/10996/) - The John Ireland Charitable Trust reports on an eventful 2022 with a range of exciting projects... - [Let's go digital!](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/05/as-costs-go-up-lets-go-digital/) - Please help the BMS to be more environmentally friendly and reduce its printing and postage costs by going paperless... - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Live Volume 3](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/11/vaughan-williams-live-volume-3/) - Vaughan Williams never pushed himself to the front as a conductor, even of his own works. But when the opportunity arose, on the showing of a limited number of recordings, he proved himself an accomplished director... - [New BMS recording: Howells piano music volume 2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/11/howells-piano-music-release/) - Pianist Matthew Schellhorn has announced that his new album of Howells piano music (volume 2) will be released on 2 December... - [Busy season for Madeleine](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/11/busy-season-for-madeleine/) - Violinist Madeliene Mitchell reports on her busy season of festivals and music courses in Italy, France and Wales... - [Joseph Horovitz memorial concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/11/joseph-horovitz-memorial-concert/) - Concert in Memory of Joseph Horovitz (1926-2022) at a capacity-filled Leighton House on 18 October 2022 inaugurated the Kensington and Chelsea Music Society’s 2022-3 season... - [DODGSON: The Peasant Poet](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/11/dodgson-songs-volume-1/) - Some of you may remember Stephen Dodgson presenting parts of Radio 3’s Record Review, but little did we know then that he was a prolific and versatile composer.. - [BREAKING THE DROUGHT](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/11/breaking-the-drought/) - This book takes its title from one of the few orchestral works by Australian composer Roy Agnew (1891-1944), largely unknown in Britain... - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Live Volume 2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/11/vaughan-williams-live-volume-2/) - Volume 2 in Somm’s invaluable contribution to Vaughan Williams’ 150th Anniversary year are three radio broadcasts by the great RVW interpreter Sir Adrian Boult... - [DANCE!](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/11/dance/) - This is a hugely rewarding disc of works inspired by the dance. Two masterworks from the early 20th century, here in fascinating arrangements, bookend three contemporary works... - [New RVW album released](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/11/new-rvw-album-released/) - An album of less well-known works by Ralph Vaughan Williams and featuring Mark Bebbington is due to be released by Resonus Classics in early December... - [WILLIAM BAINES: Pictures of Light](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/11/william-baines-pictures-of-light/) - Baines described himself as ‘like Debussy’ and by that I suspect he meant that he was creating an emotional image in sound of a landscape or picture... - [Help revive Shamus O'Brien](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/11/help-revive-shamus-obrien/) - BMS members may be interested to know of a forthcoming project to record Sir Charles Villiers Stanford's most famous and popular opera, Shamus O'Brien... - [Music and the British Monarchy](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/11/music-and-the-british-monarchy/) - The Spectator has published an interesting article tracing the influence and involvement of the British monarchy on British music over the centuries... - [BMS AGM chairman's report](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/10/bms-agm-chairmans-report/) - This report covers the key areas of the BMS's activities during 2021-22... - [British music in Germany](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/10/british-music-in-germany/) - Dr. Jürgen Schaarwächter reports on performances of British music in Germany in recent months... - [AGM 2022 report](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/10/agm-2022-report/) - For the first time in the Society's history, members at this year's AGM attended both face to face and on a zoom platform... - [REED: String Quartets](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/10/reed-string-quartets-and-legende/) - 'Billy’ Reed is mostly remembered now as the friend and adviser to Elgar; but as this valuable release demonstrates he was also a composer... - [On the trail of William Baines](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/10/on-the-trail-of-william-baines/) - William was born in 1899 - the same decade as the likes of Arthur Bliss, Herbert Howells, Peter Warlock and Gordon Jacob. But his life was to be tragically cut short at the age of just 23... - [New release from Cappella Records](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/10/new-release-from-capella-records/) - Cappella Records has announced the two-disc release of Heaven and Earth which includes John Tavener’s masterpiece, Ikon of Light. - [Gloucestershire composers celebrated in cathedral](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/10/gloucestershire-composers-celebrated-in-cathedral/) - The Holst Society and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society are joining forces to host a day of concerts in November in Gloucester Cathedral... - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Volume 1](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/10/vaughan-williams-volume-1/) - This CD is the first in an important series from SOMM comprising of re-masterings of historic performances... - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS & HOLST: Quartets](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/10/vaughan-williams-string-quartets-1-2/) - ...this is an excellent new issue with persuasive performances captured by an exceptionally good recording... - [BMS releases new CD](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/10/bms-releases-new-cd/) - The BMS’s next CD recording sees the release of the long awaited Volume 2 of Herbert Howells piano music... - [ClubDelius launched by society](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/10/clubdelius-launched-by-society/) - The Delius Society announces ClubDelius; a free membership for under 30’s, to be launched at this year’s Delius Prize Competition in November... - [A tribute to Christopher Ball](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/10/a-tribute-to-christopher-ball/) - The composer Christopher Ball, who died in April 2022, had no fewer than six musical careers, successively as clarinettist, orchestral conductor, recorder player, publisher, arranger and composer... - [CHRISTMASTIDE](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/10/christmastide/) - Here is a Christmas disc that is just that little bit different; it contains arrangements to which it is well worth paying attention... - [LSF special BMS members' offer](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/10/lsf-special-bms-members-offer/) - London Song Festival is offering tickets to three of its November concerts featuring British music to BMS members... - [BARRY MILLS: Portraits / Caledonia](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/10/barry-mills-portraits-caledonia/) - The use of rhythm and instrumentation is graphic in its impact. Some of the music is for all three instruments but there are duos and sections of piano solo too. The result suggested a kind of musical pointillism... - [EDWARD COWIE: Streams and Particles](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/10/edward-cowie-streams-and-particles/) - Edward Cowie is very much a Renaissance Man. In addition to being a composer of talent, he has expertise in physics, fine arts and Japanese literature. - [RUTH GIPPS: Orchestral Works, Volume 2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/09/ruth-gipps-orchestral-works-volume-2/) - It is interesting to note that this pupil of RVW composed with a recognisable style and technique from the very start. There is a mastery of all the elements of composition... - [British music at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/09/british-music-at-the-funeral-of-queen-elizabeth-ii/) - Many of us who watched the funeral service of Queen Elizabeth II on 19 September will have been moved by the thoughtful choice of music old and new... - [ELISABETH LUTYENS: Organ Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/09/elisabeth-lutyens-organ-music/) - Elisabeth Lutyens’s music is now emerging from the doldrums. Recently, a disc of her piano music has been issued and here, surprisingly, is a disc of works for organ, and soprano and organ. On looking through her 1972 autobiography A Goldfish Bowl she mentions nothing of them... - [ELGAR: Complete Organ Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/09/elgar-complete-organ-works/) - This interesting and attractive CD contains just two works which Elgar composed specifically for organ: the Organ Sonata No.1 in G major, Op.28, and Vesper Voluntaries, Op.14... - [Discovering Reason](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/09/discovering-reason/) - Jessy Reason composed over 70 pieces in a variety of genres including three string quartets, 30 solo songs and song cycles and a major choral work, Malini... - [From Sheffield orphan to distinguished musician](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/09/from-sheffield-orphan-to-royal-academy-principal/) - On a recent visit to the city of Sheffield - the city of Steel - my attention was struck by an impressive monument in the Cathedral commemorating Sir William Sterndale Bennett which led to some interesting local research… - [CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: Children's Songs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/09/charles-villiers-stanford-childrens-songs/) - I still remember as a small child in midsummer, being reluctantly forced into bed in the early evening. Sunlight was still streaming through closed curtains, and I could hear older boys playing loudly in the street. How unfair was that! - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/09/vaughan-williams-serenade/) - Serenade is due for release on 12 October 2022, the 150th birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Here are 19 tracks, some of them, though by no means all, from minor works... - [Malcolm Arnold Festival 2022](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/09/malcolm-arnold-festival-2022/) - One of England’s most colourful and charismatic composers - Sir Malcolm Arnold - is to be celebrated across three days in October during the 17th International Malcolm Arnold Festival... - [New Talent Festival 2022](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/08/new-talent-festival-2022/) - The activities of the New Talent Festival 2022 has finally come to a close with some great British music performances this year.. - [Sing with Sonoro](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/08/sing-with-sonoro/) - Sonoro Choir invites members of choirs to join them at special Choral Inspirations workshops taking place around the UK over the coming months... - [An appreciation: Marcus Blunt](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/08/an-appreciation-marcus-blunt/) - Marcus has left us with a significant body of well-crafted, considered music that shows him to have a distinctive voice. Deeply inspired by Scriabin, he cultivated and refined his own harmonic language... - [Leonard Salzedo celebration concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/08/leonard-salzedo-celebration-concert-2/) - 'He’s due for a serious revival!’ So says Leslie Howard at the end of Leonard Salzedo, a Life Composed in Music, the film Leonard’s daughter Caroline made about her father for his centenary last year. - [BMS AGM 2022](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/08/bms-agm-2022/) - The British Music Society AGM 2022 will be held at the Birmingham & Midland Institute on 29 October. BMS members can attend in person or join in via Zoom... - [Searching for Quilter](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/08/searching-for-quilter/) - I am a student at the Krakow Academy of Music in Poland, and I want to study the art songs of the composer Roger Quilter... - [Friends and Lovers at the London Song Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/08/friends-and-lovers-at-the-london-song-festival/) - The theme of this year’s London Song Festival is ‘Friends and Lovers’. Each concert paints an intimate and revealing portrait of a close relationship... - [The Platinum Project](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/08/the-platinum-project/) - The Dionysus Ensemble was awarded National Lottery funding to commission female Scottish composer Seonaid Aitken to write a new suite for the Platinum Jubilee... - [Arnold Bax to be recognised in Scotland](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/04/5795/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]The news that internationally renowned British composer, Sir Arnold Bax, is to be officially recognised in Scotland will be welcomed by BMS members and all classical music enthusiasts. A bronze plaque unveiling ceremony, due to take place at - [Support for Alec Rowley organ music CD](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/08/support-for-alec-rowley-organ-music-cd/) - Following my recent review of Alec Rowley: Piano Works I am currently trying to commission a CD devoted to Alec Rowley’s organ music. - [New releases by Linn Records](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/08/new-releases-by-linn-records/) - The third group of recordings in the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary series are being released digitally by Linn Records... - [Philharmonia Composers Academy 2022-23](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/08/philharmonia-composers-academy-2022-23/) - Applications are now open for the Composers Academy 2022-23. This established programme has been developed by the Philharmonia Orchestra for exceptional musicians looking to develop their skills in composition through coaching and mentoring. The programme is searching for three composers who will be commissioned to create a new 10-minute piece as part of the Philharmonia’s - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS ON BRASS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/07/vaughan-williams-on-brass/) - For members of the brass fraternity and for those who simply enjoy marvellous melodies, this is for you! - [Notes from my Apprenticeship](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/07/notes-from-my-apprenticeship/) - The greatest teachers are the rare ones who profoundly change you as a human being and whose lessons affect you throughout a lifetime. For me, Alexander “Sandy” Goehr has been that teacher... - [RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Complete Symphonies](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/07/ralph-vaughan-williams-complete-symphonies/) - However (!) like Noah stuck on the beach, the series gets off to an indifferent start. The problem is that, for some reason, the Sea Symphony was recorded in the Barbican Hall. Its wretched acoustics, close and cold, are not suitable... - [BRIDGE & BRITTEN](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/07/frank-bridge-and-benjamin-britten/) - This disc offers an opportunity to find out via the voice which Britten composed for brilliantly, and the viola which both composers played and loved... - [COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/07/coleridge-taylor-nonet-piano-trio-piano-quintet/) - There is such skill and maturity in every aspect of the writing. Then one remembers that the composer was only 18 when he wrote them, and the work becomes even more astonishing... - [THE FABULOUS SIR JOHN](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/07/the-fabulous-sir-john/) - For many years Sir John Manduell was best known as a music administrator of great accomplishment; now his compositions are slowly appearing... - [Letter: Walton inspired Ben-Hur soundtrack](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/07/walton-inspired-ben-hur-soundtrack/) - I found something that maybe of interest to readers. Recently I heard a near-copy of a tune by William Walton in the Ben-Hur soundtrack I got from the thrift shop... - [Bax plaque installed in Morar](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/07/bax-plaque-installed-in-morar/) - A bronze plaque commemorating the composer Arnold Bax has been installed where he composed some of his finest scores... - [Early history of the BMS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/07/early-history-of-the-bms/) - Some members might be aware that the British Music Society existed in various forms with branches around the world including Bangalore in India... - [ALEC ROWLEY: Piano Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/07/alec-rowley-piano-works/) - Although there are other CDs which include individual works, this is the first devoted entirely to Rowley... - [THE FAIR HILLS OF ЄIRЄ](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/07/the-fair-hills-of-єirє/) - Brilliant playing, attractive melodies and fantastic variety makes this an hour or so of thoroughly enticing listening... - [JOHN IRELAND: Orchestral Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/07/john-ireland-orchestral-music/) - Despite one or two reservations, this is a hugely welcome issue of most on John Ireland’s works for orchestra, from a conductor and orchestra who can seemingly do little wrong... - [Letter: information wanted](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/06/letter-information-wanted/) - Ahead of a concert by Thanet Light Orchestra information is being sought about pianist Winifred Browne and composer Alfred Wall... - [Carwithen Festival review](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/07/carwithen-festival-review/) - Congratulations to viola player Mark Chivers for organising a wonderful festival celebrating composer Doreen Carwithen’s centenary... - [Reflections on David Lloyd-Jones](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/06/reflections-on-david-lloyd-jones/) - His work for the BBC opened the door to what David would disparagingly refer to as ‘my time as a Civil Servant’, technically being employed by the Arts Council to establish Opera North. His achievement led to an appearance on Desert Island Discs... - [Piano Impressions from the British Isles](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/06/piano-impressions-from-the-british-isles/) - Firstly, a niggle. This is a disc of British music, the title is in English the works are named in English, but then all the notes are in Dutch and German only. An odd choice to my mind. .. - [Obituary: David Lloyd-Jones](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/06/obituary-david-lloyd-jones/) - Meeting extraordinary people is one of life’s great privileges and David Lloyd-Jones, who died on 8th June, was one such extraordinary man... - [On This Shining Night](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/06/on-this-shining-night/) - Two of the composers have written their own string quartet parts, and the CD opens with 11 such settings by Peter Warlock. These are delicious, with great vocal performances... - [Chasing Moonbeams: Light Music Classics](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/06/chasing-moonbeams-light-music-classics/) - The only woman represented on the disc, Madeline Dring, was a supremely talented musician who died far too young. Her Times Change and Waltz- Finale, are in her very personal style, with quirky rhythms and sideways harmonic progressions... - [BRITISH CHAMBER MUSIC](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/06/british-chamber-music/) - On the surface this disc might appear to be something of a ‘dog’s dinner’ - 12 works, some very brief, by 10 composers some of whom will be new to you... - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Complete Works for Violin and Piano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/06/vaughan-williams-complete-works-for-violin-and-piano/) - The Lark Ascending one of the composer’s most well-loved works, is instantly appealing. This, the original version for violin and piano, offers the most polished playing from the piano... - [ED HUGHES: Music for the South Downs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/06/ed-hughes-music-for-the-south-downs/) - Ed Hughes’ compositional style is unique and thoroughly personal. Much ‘new’ music has close connections with the idea of place,and this is certainly true with Hughes’ music... - [Music and Migration in Georgian Edinburgh](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/06/music-and-migration-in-georgian-edinburgh/) - An exhibition at the Georgian House in Edinburgh opened in June telling the remarkable story of Felix Yaniewicz, a celebrated Polish- Lithuanian violinist and composer... - [Label to pay tribute to post 1918 British music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/05/label-to-pay-tribute-to-post-1918-british-music/) - A tribute to post-1918 British sacred music is being released this month on the Australian based Ars Organi label... - [Concert review: Britten Sinfonia](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/05/concert-review-britten-sinfonia/) - This was brilliant programming by the Britten Sinfonia, and although the concert going public did not turn out in force (the Barbican barely a quarter full), it was good to know at least some British Music Society members were in attendance... - [Composer Peter Manning dies aged 73](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/05/composer-peter-manning-dies-aged-73/) - Composer Peter Manning has died at the age of 73. He was best known for his work on electro-acoustic composition... - [Another blue plaque](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/05/another-blue-plaque/) - Crossing London’s majestic Manchester Square enroute to the Wallace Collection I spotted a blue plaque on No. 2... - [Delius Society celebrates 60th](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/05/delius-society-celebrates-60th/) - The Delius Society celebrates its 60th anniversary with a special concert at the Royal Academy of Music on 26 June... - [Tell us about your event](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/05/tell-us-about-your-event-2/) - We are delighted that lots of performers, organisations, festivals and others have contacted us using the new online form to tell us about their event... - [PHILIP WILBY: An English Passion](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/05/philip-wilby-an-english-passion/) - It needs just two words with which to welcome this issue – it is absolutely splendid... - [British music at High Barnet festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/05/british-music-at-high-barnet-festival/) - A charity concert for Ukraine, a full orchestral concert and three chamber music recitals are promised at this year's High Barnet Chamber Music Festival... - [Festival promises a Feast of Midsummer Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/05/festival-promises-a-feast-of-midsummer-music/) - Gregynog Festival returns with a feast of Midsummer music in the handsome setting of Gregynog Hall near Newtown in north Powys... - [A Garland for Ukraine](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/05/a-garland-for-ukraine/) - A Garland for Ukraine, a unique film tribute of music, features BMS member John Turner... - [PROCESSIONAL: Organ Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/05/processional-organ-music/) - This double CD set is presented as a luxurious hard cover booklet with detailed notes on the music by organist Richard Lea... - [EDWARD COWIE: 24 Preludes for Piano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/05/edward-cowie-24-preludes-for-piano/) - This CD is a re-release of the 24 Piano Preludes by Edward Cowie, first recorded by piano virtuoso Philip Mead, a specialist in contemporary piano repertoire, on the UHR label of the University of Hertfordshire in November of 2007... - [An appreciation: Sir Harrison Birtwistle](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/04/an-appreciation-sir-harrison-birtwistle/) - Following his death earlier this month, much has been written about the musical achievement of Sir Harrison Birtwistle. Unpalatable to some, indispensable to others, his music has dominated the new music landscape for well over fifty years... - [Vaughan Williams in Manchester](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/04/vaughan-williams-in-manchester/) - How appropriate that in Ralph Vaughan William’s 150th anniversary year this performance of his extraordinary Sinfonia Antartica should take place just a few streets away from Manchester’s former Free Trade Hall... - [Tell us about your Event](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/04/tell-us-about-your-event/) - The BMS is always delighted to share details of upcoming concerts and events featuring British music - and we have now made it even easier for you to tell us about them! - [Obituary: John McLeod](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/04/obituary-john-mcleod/) - The death in Edinburgh on 24 March of the remarkable Scottish composer-conductor-clarinettist and educator John McLeod leaves an unfillable void in Scottish Music... - [RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Pan's Anniversary](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/04/ralph-vaughan-william-pans-anniversary/) - Pan’s Anniversary is a masque written by Ben Jonson, originally designed by Inigo Jones. It was first performed for the court of James I in 1621... - [John Joubert: First and Last Songs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/04/john-joubert-first-and-last-songs/) - My father John Joubert died in January 2019. Just before he died I had written in my diary ‘tidy Dad’s study’ as it was badly in need of sorting out... - [Ivy Parkin](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/04/ivy-parkin/) - Cellist seeks information about composer and concert pianist Ivy Parkin. - [Festival to feature British music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/04/festival-to-feature-british-music/) - Hertfordshire Festival (HFoM) will feature a terrific range of British Music at its 2022 festival. - [NOW THE GREEN BLADE RISETH](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/04/now-the-green-blade-riseth/) - The 18 items on the CD take the listener on a journey from Palm Sunday, through the Crucifixion to the Resurrection and the Glory of the Risen Christ... - [New publications of Darke piano music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/04/n/) - Australian music publisher, Crescendo Music Publications has produced three new first editions of the music of Harold Darke.. - [BRITISH PIANO CONCERTOS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/03/british-piano-concertos/) - The general tenor throughout most of the disc can be described, oxymoronically perhaps, as ‘light’ music with dissonance... - [Brian Easdale piano concerto](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/03/brian-easdale-piano-concerto/) - A Stanford University professor is planning a performance of Brian Easdale’s piano concerto but needs help... - [IAN KING: Music for Gloucester Cathedral](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/03/ian-king-music-for-gloucester-cathedral/) - ... the work that really struck home to me was The Christmas Truce, King’s setting of the words of a powerful, almost filmic poem, by Carol Ann Duffy... - [Violinist launches RVW150 project](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/03/violinist-launches-rvw150-project/) - Violinist, writer and composer Midori Komachi is on a mission to bring the music of British composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, to a wider audience... - [English Music Festival unveils programme](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/03/english-music-festival-unveils-programme/) - The 15th English Music Festival returns to Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire on the 27 - 29 May opening with the BBC Concert Orchestra... - [Obituary: Lyell Cresswell](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/03/obituary-lyell-cresswell/) - We regret to announce the death of composer Lyell Cresswell, who was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1944... - [HORN CONCERTOS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/03/horn-concertos/) - This new disc by the prodigiously gifted Ben Goldscheider includes two of the great concertos for French Horn... - [Astronomy & Music: Herschel 200](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/03/astronomy-music-herschel-200/) - 2022 is the bicentenary year of the death of celebrated astronomer and composer William Herschel... - [A tribute: George Odam](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/03/a-tribute-george-odam/) - Composer, writer and lecturer, George Odam’s life in music was inspired at an early age... - [BACH INSPIRED](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/03/bach-inspired/) - Six newly-commissioned choral pieces sit alongside six chorales from the Passion. These chorales act as centres of inspiration for our six young composers... - [ERNEST MOERAN: Chamber Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/03/ernest-moeran-chamber-music/) - This fine recording will serve to much enhance the reputation of both Moeran and the Fidelio Trio. It has already been selected as an ‘Editor’s Choice’ in the March Gramophone... - [EDWARD COWIE: Where Song Was Born](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/03/edward-cowie-where-song-was-born/) - I learned a lot from this fascinating CD, not just musically but regarding so many extraordinary and exotic birds, most of which I had not heard of before... - [No Ordinary Joe - obituary of Joseph Horovitz](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/no-ordinary-joe-obituary-of-joseph-horovitz/) - I met Joseph Horovitz more than 25 years ago... I was immediately struck by his voice; his English, even 50 years after leaving Vienna, had a wonderful musical lilt to it. - [Streaming site launches new releases](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/streaming-site-launches-new-releases-of-british-music/) - CRQ Editions, a specialist download and streaming site has recently released several recordings of British music of interest... - [A tribute to Joseph Horovitz](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/a-tribute-to-joseph-horovitz/) - Composer Joseph Horovitz, who died earlier this month at the age of 95, is remembered in this short film by the British Music Society... - [ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF BRITISH SONG](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/one-hundred-years-of-british-song-2/) - Volume 3 introduces five composers not automatically associated with the genre. Indeed, one would like to know how these songs and composers were chosen... - [British Music for Strings III](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/british-music-for-strings-iii/) - None of this music is likely to set the Thames on fire, but it is all eminently agreeable without quite being eminent. Much of it is slow, which is just as well as Bostock is clearly happier with slow music... - [ARNOLD BAX: From the Hills of Dreams](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/arnold-bax-from-the-hills-of-dreams/) - Bax’s songs rarely show up on disc or in concert. I have a couple of earlier CDs that only infrequently get played– so would these eighteen unrecorded songs lure me back to this part of the composers oeuvre? - [Members offer for G&S Festival 2022](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/members-offer-for-gs-festival-2022/) - The 28th International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival is offering BMS members a 10% discount... - [New CD release from The Cumbrian Duo](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/new-cd-release-from-naxos/) - With a release date of 4 March, Bleckell Murry Neet is a CD of Cumbrian Music for Guitar and Harp by The Cumbrian Duo... - [Feature: William Baines and Flamborough Head](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/feature-william-baines-and-flamborough-head/) - An internet search on Flamborough Head directed me, by chance, to the song Good night to Flamboro’ and William Baines... - [New release of British horn concertos](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/new-release-of-british-horn-concertos/) - A new release of horn concertos features works by British composers Malcolm Arnold and Ruth Gipps... - [Bite-Back: Walton Centenary CD review](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/bite-back-walton-centenary-cd-review/) - Your review of SOMM’s Walton Centenary CD is technically wrong on so many counts. Of course your opinions are as valid as anyone else’s... - [Concert review: William Blezard Centenary Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/concert-review-william-blezard-centenary-concert/) - William Blezard was a pianist, composer and musical director to Joyce Grenfell and Marlene Dietrich, and was married to the pioneering female conductor and musicianship teacher Joan Kemp Potter... - [RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Earth's Wide Bounds](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/ralph-vaughan-williams-earths-wide-bounds/) - Naturally the 150th anniversary of RVW’s birth provides an opportunity to plug some gaps in the recorded repertoire, and to feature other less well-known items... - [New BMS Journals available online](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/new-bms-journals-available-online-2/) - The 2021 BMS journal (number 43) is now available to read online... - [Full of The Highland Humours](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/full-of-the-highland-humours/) - This is a thoroughly entertaining CD from its beginning with Oswald’s The Poppy to the final piece, Robert Bremner’s spring-heeled variations on a traditional highland dance... - [RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Folk Songs Volume 4](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/ralph-vaughan-williams-folk-songs-volume-4/) - This CD marks the release of the fourth and final volume of the Complete Folk Song Arrangements by Ralph Vaughan Williams, appropriately it turns out in 2022, which marks the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth... - [ROBIN STEVENS: Music for cello & piano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/robin-stevens-music-for-cello-piano/) - Several of the twenty numbered items on this CD reveal Robin Stevens to be a very individual and exploratory composer... - [New performances of work by Ailsa Dixon](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/new-performances-of-work-by-ailsa-dixon/) - Now that live music is returning, two more concerts featuring works by the composer Ailsa Dixon have been scheduled for April... - [EDWARD COWIE: Bird Portraits](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/edward-cowie-bird-portraits/) - Edward Cowie’s Bird Portraits is virtually unique. Messiaen’s Catalogue d’Oiseaux comes nearest, but in his extensive programme note, Cowie stresses the difference between his and Messiaen’s compositional technique... - [Special commission to mark The Queen's Platinum Jubilee](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/special-commission-to-mark-the-queens-platinum-jubilee/) - The Royal School of Church Music announces a special choral music commission to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee in June 2022. - [LENNOX IN PARIS: Music for Violin & Piano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/02/lennox-in-paris-music-for-violin-piano/) - The booklet cover displays a wonderful Parisian street, I think the Champs-Élysées, by Pissarro which really conjures up the lights and gaiety of the world which Lennox Berkeley entered in the late 1920s... - [Obituary](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/01/obituary-francis-jackson-cbe/) - The composer, conductor, Organist and Master of the Choristers at York Minster for thirty-six years, and infinitely benign mentor and friend to generations of choristers and fellow organists, died on 10th January, 2022, at the age of 104. - [RVW 150th anniversary celebration publication](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/01/rvw-150th-anniversary-celebration-publication/) - The official Collectors’ Edition celebrating the composer's life and works in his 150th anniversary year is now on sale... - [WILLIAM WALTON: A Centenary Celebration](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/01/william-walton-a-centenary-celebration/) - The connection between these well-known but diverse works by one of our most significant 20th century composers is clear – both employ the spoken word... - [BASC 2021 video released online](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/basc-2021-plans-unveiled/) - Sarah Connolly has been announced as the teacher and judge of the BASC 2021 masterclass/competition to be held in December 2021. - [HAVERGAL BRIAN: Symphonies 3 & 17](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/01/havergal-brian-symphonies-3-17/) - The New Philharmonia play well: moments of struggle are even oddly appropriate, as a sense of heroic striving is arguably intrinsic to the work... - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Transcriptions](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/01/vaughan-williams-transcriptions/) - The real highlight of the performance is the wonderfully energetic and incisive playing of the Scherzo. It could easily stand alone as a superb concert piece... - [Obituary: John Mitchinson](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/01/obituary-john-mitchinson/) - John Mitchinson, one of our most celebrated tenors, passed away in December. - [Heritage Records member offer](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/01/heritage-records-member-offer/) - A special offer of a 10% discount is available to BMS members during February and March... - [Lennox in Paris album out soon](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/01/lennox-in-paris-album-out-soon/) - The music of British composer Sir Lennox Berkeley is featured in a new album to be released on 4 February. - [Obituary: Lionel Carley](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/01/obituary-lionel-carley/) - Lionel Carley, President of The Delius Society since 2005, passed away just before midnight on Tuesday 28th December... - [Sacred Songs launched digitally](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/01/sacred-songs-launched-digitally/) - A digital only release of Sacred Songs by composer Roland Johnson is now available... - [MILES: Chamber Music Vol 1](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/01/miles-chamber-music-vol-1/) - Reviewing ‘rediscovered’ music sometimes means struggling to find something polite to say. No such need here... - [Philharmonia concert ticket offer](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2022/01/philharmonia-concert-ticket-offer/) - BMS members can buy discounted tickets to the Philharmonia concert at the Royal Festival Hall conducted by John Wilson on 10 February... - [Song festival competition](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/12/annual-song-festival-2021/) - Dame Sarah Connolly judged this year's annual London Song Festival Masterclass and British Art Song Competition. - [Letter: Publications available to members](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/12/letter-bms-publications-for-sale/) - A member is making available past editions of the BMS Printed News and BMS Journals... - [Recollections of Gordon Crosse](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/12/recollections-of-gordon-crosse/) - Following on from John Turner’s comprehensive tribute to his long-standing friend Gordon Crosse, Andrew Burn recalls how Crosse influenced and guided him at a crucial point during his teens... - [Women composers biography request](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/12/women-composers-biography-request/) - A biographer is seeking information about Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell and Doreen Carwithen... - [A Bit More Like Work](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/12/a-bit-more-like-work/) - BMS member David Mackie has written a sequel to his 2018 publication Nothing Like Work... - [Seeking ideas about Sitwell's Lullaby](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/12/seeking-ideas-about-sitwells-lullaby/) - Musical curator and researcher Cameron Robertson has contacted BMS regarding a 12” 78rpm record which belonged to Edith Sitwell... - [28th International G&S Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/12/28th-international-gs-festival/) - The main programme for the 2022 G&S Festival has been announced... - [2019 BMS prizewinner update](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/12/2019-bms-prizewinner-update/) - The latest news on Naori Takahashi, winner of the BMS prize in the 2019 New Talent Competition... - [Hugh Wood: Reflections](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/12/hugh-wood-reflections/) - Hugh Wood, who died on 14 August this year at the age of 89, was one of our finest composers. David Matthews reflects on his life... - [We will remember](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/12/we-will-remember/) - Commission to commemorate health workers who lost their lives during the Covid-19 pandemic is released digitally... - [THE PETER JACOBS ANTHOLOGY:](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/12/the-peter-jacobs-anthology/) - Peter Jacobs has a long and eminently honourable record of championing English piano music, from the days when it was even less fashionable than it is now... - [JOHN PURSER: consider the story](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/11/john-purser-consider-the-story/) - The overall title, ‘consider the story’ (small case) comes from a quite obscure Irish song... - [Elgar Symphonies CDs for sale](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/03/elgar-symphonies-for-sale/) - A chance to buy a mint copy of the original box set, still in its shrink wrap, of Sir Colin Davis’ LSO recordings of the three Elgar Symphonies. - [Composers project goes live online](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/11/composer-project-goes-live-online/) - Composers from South Wales meet Composers from New South Wales in online concert project. - [Malcolm Arnold Centenary Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/11/malcolm-arnold-centenary-concert/) - ... not a single one of the major London orchestras has programmed a note of Sir Malcolm Arnold’s music in this his centenary year... - [CHARLES DIBDIN: The Wags](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/11/charles-dibden-the-wags/) - Everyone who has attended the Last Night of the Proms, or watched it on television, will be familiar with ‘that lovely cello tune’ from Sir Henry Wood’s Fantasia on British Sea-Songs. How many people know the name of the original composer of that song? - [Tributes to Giles Easterbrook](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/11/tributes-to-giles-easterbrook/) - Tributes from Andrew Burn, chairman of the Bliss Trust and three composers following the death of BMS vice-chairman in September - [SIR MALCOLM ARNOLD: Centenary Edition](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/11/sir-malcolm-arnold-centenary-edition/) - [this] Naxos set along with a complete recording of his British dances is reissued in this beautifully packaged budget price box... - [Blue plaques in Kensington](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/11/blue-plaques-in-kensington/) - Remember our lockdown challenge which asked readers to send us a photo and description of plaques which celebrated British composers? - [Hello to new members](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/11/hello-to-new-members/) - We welcome these new members who have joined the society recently... - [Gordon Crosse: Ad Patrem](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/11/gordon-crosse-ad-patrem/) - John Turner’s obituary to Gordon Crosse who died on 21 November 2021 makes reference to his third Elergy, Ad Patrem, which was composed in 2009 in memory of his adored father. - [Obituary: Gordon Crosse](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/11/obituary-gordon-crosse/) - English composer Gordon Crosse has died aged 83. - [Northern School of Music celebrates centenary](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/11/northern-school-of-music-celebrates-centenary/) - Delayed by a year due to the pandemic, an event to mark the centenary of the music school took place in late October. - [John Rutter releases new Christmas carols](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/11/john-rutter-releases-new-christmas-carols/) - Composer and conductor John Rutter has recently released five new carols including a new digital recording of I Sing of a Maiden. - [Bache essay wins BMS competition](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/11/bache-essay-wins-competition/) - The second BMS Essay Competition attracted 11 submissions from students residing in the UK, the USA, and Hungary. - [MALCOLM ARNOLD: Orchestral Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/10/malcolm-arnold-symphony-no-9/) - ... the musical numbers for a full gastronomic menu including Soup (Brown Windsor), Peach Melba etc. show Arnold’s gift for cinematic painting in glorious technicolor. - [Ruth Gipps centenary year](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/10/ruth-gipps-centenary-year/) - I would be grateful to hear from any of our colleagues regarding concerts or recitals they have given or conducted of any of Ruth Gipps' or Phyllis Tate's works. - [Worldwide plans to mark 150th birthday](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/10/rvw-150th-birthday-plans-worldwide/) - 2022 will see the music industry celebrate the 150th birthday of British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. - [Festival obsesses this autumn](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/10/festival-obsesses-this-autumn/) - The focus of the London Song Festival Autumn Season which runs from 29 October to 10 December is Obsessions. - [RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: An Oxford Christmas](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/10/ralph-vaughan-williams-an-oxford-christmas/) - This is a fine collection for choir masters on the lookout for ‘new’ carols for their Christmas concerts, or for the rest of us just to enjoy... - [ARTHUR SULLIVAN: Incidental Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/10/arthur-sullivan-incidental-music/) - One should look out for remarkable organ peroration in the last few bars of what is an intriguing journey for the listener... - [PUER NATUS EST: Christmas Day from Buckfast Abbey](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/10/puer-natus-est-christmas-day-from-buckfast-abbey/) - I cannot stress too strongly that the quality of the singing, playing and directing, to say nothing of the wonderfully atmospheric recording, are exceptionally good... - [ELISABETH LUTYENS: Piano Music Vol 1](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/10/elisabeth-lutyens-piano-music-vol-1/) - ... the works on this new disc all are from the last decade or so of her life when her textures are becoming even more sparse, aphoristic and impressionistic. - [LORD BERNERS: Wedding Bouquet, Luna Park and March](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/10/lord-berners-wedding-bouquet-luna-park-and-march/) - The plot, if it can be called that, is set in a freak pavilion as a weird set of characters pass before us, including a six-armed man, and a three-legged juggler. I’ll leave the rest to your imagination... - [Robert Simpson: Matthew Taylor's personal tribute for his centenary](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/10/robert-simpson-a-personal-tribute-for-his-centenary/) - I knew Robert Simpson’s name before encountering his music, first as the author of the still definitive biography of Nielsen, who was and still remains one of my Gods, and later as one of the most compelling speakers on Radio 3... - [Tavener's music explored in new book](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/10/book-explores-taveners-music/) - Tuesday 30 November sees the launch of a new book which explores the music of composer Sir John Tavener... - [Youth music contest attracts 400+ entries](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/10/youth-music-contest-attracts-400-entries/) - More than 406 young musicians from 28 countries have entered this year's New Talent British International Youth Music Competition... - [MALCOLM ARNOLD: A Centenary Celebration](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/10/malcolm-arnold-a-centenary-celebration/) - Curiously though, for a centenary celebration, the majority of the disc is made up of arrangements when even the liner notes acknowledge that Arnold was none too keen on people arranging his music... - [HUMPHREY BURTON: In My Own Time](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/10/humphrey-burton-in-my-own-time/) - The text is full of fascinating detail, humour and humanity and is further enhanced by judicious use of well-chosen photographic images. - [Obituary: Giles Easterbrook](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/obituary-giles-easterbrook/) - BMS Vice-President Giles Easterbrook, composer and promoter of 20th century music, has died aged 72... - [BMS AGM](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/bms-agm/) - All BMS members are welcome to join us online for our 2021 AGM which be held on 4 October at 10am London time - [Concert review: 25 Years of Prima Facie](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/concert-review-25-years-of-prima-facie/) - Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik provided a welcomingly familiar opening in which the Victoria String Quartet was joined by Gavin Barras... - [BMS offer on new books](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/bms-offer-on-new-book/) - BMS members are offered a discount of up to 30% on two new books from Yale University Press... - [CRÉPUSCULE](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/crepuscule/) - Production is in every way up to the usual high standards of the label: the final result is 77 minutes of vivid listening pleasure... - [WALTON: Symphony No. 1](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/walton-symphony-no-1-crown-imperial/) - When I first heard Walton’s Symphony 1 as a 12-year-old I thought it the most cacophonous nonsense. Happily, over the ensuing decades it has become a firm favourite of mine... - [EUAN MOSELEY: Piano Topography](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/euan-moseley-piano-topography/) - These pieces demand a thoroughly accomplished piano virtuoso and with Hungarian pianist Gusztáv Fenyö, now settled in Glasgow, that is exactly what you get... - [PAUL LEWIS: Romantic Music for Harp](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/paul-lewis-romantic-music-for-harp/) - Paul Lewis has been a prolific writer for the [harp]... he writes not only idiomatically but also very imaginatively... - [TWO FORGOTTEN ENGLISH PIANISTS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/two-forgotten-english-pianists/) - ... this is a most welcome and important historic release which I hope will rehabilitate two very fine British pianists. - [DE PROFUNDIS CLAMAVI: Piano works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/de-profundis-clamavi-piano-works/) - This typically adventurous double-CD (packed with première recordings) opens with a 1938 Sonata from Birmingham's Christopher Edmunds... - [BRITISH OBOE QUINTETS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/british-oboe-quintets/) - The disc is beautifully recorded throughout and has very useful booklet notes by Mervyn Cooke and Nicholas Daniel... - [Recording projects to mark RVW 150 years](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/8781/) - Vaughan Williams’ 150th birthday will be celebrated in style in 2022 by Albion Records... - [Book explores life of Victorian musician](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/book-explores-life-of-victorian-musician/) - The Best in Sound and Form and Hue is a fascinating work about John Squire, musician and artist... - [Naxos UK celebrates 30th birthday](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/naxos-uk-celebrates-30th-birthday/) - Naxos Music UK Ltd this year celebrates 30 years' service within the record industry... - [Letter: Spot that Tune](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/letter-spot-that-tune/) - The 'Spot that tune' music in the August E-News is by Robert Farnon - How beautiful is night... - [FREAK OUT: Extraordinary Music for Organ](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/freak-out-extraordinary-music-for-organ/) - The final piece on the CD Black Host instructs the performer to Freak Out (from whence the title of the CD) to ‘Go ape’ and to ‘Detonate’... - [DEDICATION: Clarinet Chamber Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/dedication-clarinet-chamber-music/) - Interest in the music of Ruth Gipps is clearly increasing. I suggest the reason for this is that there is an appetite for the less well-known... - [EDWARD ELGAR: Where Corals Lie](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/edward-elgar-where-corals-lie/) - This is a delightful and finely performed collection of music and poetry which for much of the 20th century was out of fashion... - [JOHN JOUBERT: The Complete Solo Piano Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/09/john-joubert-the-complete-solo-piano-music/) - The recorded sound is superb – a very appropriate tribute to one of the most substantial and significant composers of our time... - [One Hundred Years of British Song](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/one-hundred-years-of-british-song/) - Volume 2 (in this projected three-part series) introduces five composers not automatically associated with the genre... - [Welcome to new members](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/welcome-to-new-members/) - A warm welcome to new members who joined the Society recently... - [Spot that tune!](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/spot-that-tune/) - We have had a request from a member to identify this excerpt of music... - [Festival marks composer's centenary](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/festival-marks-composers-centenary/) - 2021 marks the centenary of the birth of Robert Simpson in Leamington - the town's festival will celebrate his. music in September.. - [New BMS Journals available online](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/new-bms-journals-available-online/) - We are making excellent progress with the digitisation of past issues of BMS journals. - [MERVYN ROBERTS: Summer's Day](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/mervyn-roberts-summers-day/) - This disc deserves to be a must-buy for enthusiasts of piano music in the Bax/Ireland tradition... - [A tribute: Dr Thomas Rajna](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/a-tribute-dr-thomas-rajna/) - Thomas Rajna was an adventurous performer, an imaginative composer, and a truly endearing person... - [Letter: looking for Bantock](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/letter-looking-for-bantock/) - Dr Adèle Commins, Head of Creative Arts, Media and Music at the Dundalk Institute of Technology is trying to track down a copy of the Bantock Society Journal... - [Obituary: Hugh Wood](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/obituary-hugh-wood/) - With the death of Hugh Wood at the age of 89 we have lost one of our finest composers... - [Inspire 2021](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/inspire-2021/) - The Music Teachers’ Association of New South Wales, Australia will be holding their Biennial Conference for Studio Music Teachers in September... - [Rebrand for Holst Museum](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/rebrand-for-holst-museum/) - The Holst Birthplace Museum is rebranding to become Holst Victorian House on 10 September... - [Ralph Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs Vol. 3](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/ralph-vaughan-williams-folk-songs-vol-3/) - This is the third in a series of four CDs supported by The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society. Listen to this music both to learn and to enjoy... - [FRANCIS POTT: Christus](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/francis-pott-christus/) - Symphonic structure, a huge range of organ styles and sound possibilities of the instrument are all woven together in this epic work... - [HEAVEN AND EARTH: Organ Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/heaven-and-earth-organ-music/) - Västerås Cathedral in central Sweden, where this CD was recorded, boasts two fine organs. So well co-ordinated are the two performers however that we could almost be hearing a single giant instrument... - [LORD BERNERS: The Triumph of Neptune](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/lord-berners-the-triumph-of-neptune/) - This disc was one of three devoted to Berners major works. The performances are clear, and colourfully capture the two orchestras involved... - [Obituary: Stephen Wilkinson](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/obituary-stephen-wilkinson/) - The choral conductor, composer, BBC producer, and energetic friend of countless British composers, has died at the age of 102... - [World premiere to support charity](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/world-premiere-to-support-charity/) - BMS member Paul Henley will present the World Première of his new work for String Orchestra, To the Gentle Light in September... - [THE MUSIC OF FREDERICK DELIUS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/08/the-music-of-frederick-delius/) - If all you knew of Delius was Brigg Fair you would think he was an English composer. If all you knew was Appalachia or the Florida Suite you would think he was an unusually good American one. If it were the Song of the High Hills, then Norwegian... - [Obituary: David Beck](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/obituary-david-beck/) - Despite, or perhaps because of, sharing a surname with Swiss, German, American and Canadian composers, the British composer David Beck remained for much of his life in the shadows as an orchestral violinist... - [Digitising the BMS Journals](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/digitalising-the-bms-journals/) - An exciting new project to digitise all articles from all existing BMS Journals has started... - [THE BEST OF ARNOLD](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/the-best-of-arnold/) - Arnold's centenary this year has prompted Naxos to produce this wide-ranging taster disc, compiled from their many recordings of his vast output... - [RICHARD ADDINSELL: British Light Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/richard-addinsell-film-music/) - Addinsell’s niche as a composer was as a significant contributor to film, incidental and light music. The liner notes say that his way of working was to ‘play what he had composed at the piano... - [WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Cello Concerto, Symphony no 5](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/william-wordsworth-cello-concerto-symphony-no-5/) - Even if the pace flags once or twice the big-boned finale carries the work through a series of closely-argued variations to a convincing if wrenching climax... - [Ernest John MOERAN: His Life and Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/ernest-john-moeran-his-life-and-music/) - I would go as far as to say this is one of the best books of its type I have ever come across, and up there with, say, Lewis Foreman’s Bax... - [Guess the composer](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/guess-the-composer/) - Can you identify the following excerpt from the first and last pages of a Sarabande for piano dated 1939? - [Nocturne: composed during lockdown](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/nocturne-composed-during-lockdown/) - British composer John Whittaker shares a film of his ‘Nocturne' which was composed during lockdown... - [New titles from Goodmusic](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/new-titles-from-goodmusic/) - Music publisher Goodmusic has recently published around 100 new works, almost all of which are British. - [VOYAGE OF A SEA-GOD](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/voyage-of-a-sea-god/) - The programme here follows the repertory for bassoon on its interesting journey from 1900-1999. Most, but not all, are by British composers, or British by adoption... - [Date for your diary: BMS AGM 2021](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/date-for-your-diary-bms-agm-2021/) - The date for the BMS AGM 2021 has been announced - the meeting will be held online on 15 Sept. - [Jury for youth music contest announced](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/jury-for-youth-music-contest-announced/) - The jury panel for the 4th New Talent British International Youth Music Competition has been announced... - [Leading opera director dies](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/leading-opera-director-dies/) - Leading opera director Sir Graham Vick has died suddenly at the age of 67. - [Award for baroque violinist](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/award-for-baroque-violinist/) - The wife of BMS President Raphael Wallfisch has been awarded the Telemann prize... - [BMS Essay Competition](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/bms-essay-competition-2021/) - The closing date for entries for the second British Music Society Essay Competition 2021 is 30 September 2021 - [ALBERT KETÈLBEY: A Dream Picture](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/albert-ketelbey-a-dream-picture/) - If you are feeling downcast, Ketèlbey’s very English early twentieth century piano music at its best is sure to bring a ray of sunshine into your life... - [Obituary: Richard Lloyd](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/obituary-richard-lloyd/) - Richard Lloyd, who died in April, was a noted composer of church music with more than 600 anthems to his credit... - [All change at the Holst Museum](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/07/all-change-at-the-holst-museum/) - Cheltenham's hidden gem, the Holst Birthplace Museum, is emerging in good health from the Covid pandemic. - [Volume 2019/2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/06/volume-2019-2/) - [et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] BMS Members can click on the articles to download a pdf version CONTENTS From the archivesJohn Raynor by Olwen Picton-Jones ArticlesJohn Locke: A Perspective on a Composer’s Legacyby Elizabeth ManningReflections of a Broken Love in Tippett’s A Child of Our Timeby Daniel Gilgan ReviewsHugh Blair: Worcester’s Forgotten Organist by Tonya ChirgwinDelius and the Sound - [35% off new books](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/05/35-off-new-books/) - Two new publications by Boydell & Brewer are available online to members at a special discount of 35% - [Centenary celebrations at summer festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/06/centenary-celebrations-at-summer-festival/) - London Song Festival’s summer season of concerts is currently under way with a series of four concerts. - [500th issue sells out](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/06/500th-issue-from-toccata-sells-out/) - William Wordsworth Orchestral Works Volume III - 5th Symphony and Cello Concerto with John Gibbons - is the fastest ever selling Toccata Classics disc. - [Contest seeks young musical talent](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/06/content-seeks-young-musical-talent/) - Entries are now open for the New Talent British International Youth Music Competition 2021. - [DOUGLAS MUNN: Complete Music for Solo Piano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/06/douglas-munn-complete-music-for-solo-piano/) - This is an extraordinary disc of music by an extraordinary personality. Douglas Munn was a distinguished mathematician, but also a highly proficient pianist and, in his youth, a significant composer... - [ACOUSTICS IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/06/acoustics-in-architectural-design/) - This is ‘simply’ a book about sound. Except it is not simple at all. For such a commonplace entity, its control and dissemination is a hugely complex matter... - [Memories of composer Martin Shaw](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/06/memories-of-musician-martin-shaw/) - My mother always used to say with a sigh, “I wish you could have known your grandfather”. She loved him dearly, and kept a rare full-face picture of him on her desk. - [An appreciation of Honor Sheppard](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/06/an-appreciation-of-honor-sheppard/) - The distinguished soprano Honor Sheppard died in her home village of Bowdon, Cheshire, at the age of 89 on 29th May 2021. - [New book author bites back!](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/06/new-book-author-bites-back/) - Philip Hunt’s suggestion that the announcement of my biography “overlooks” Geoffrey Self’s The Music of E. J. Moeran rather misses the point... - [Welcome to our new Journal editor](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/06/welcome-to-our-new-journal-editor/) - We are delighted that Dr Ian Maxwell will be joining the team once again as BMS Journal Editor. - [Diversity and the British string quartet](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/06/diversity-and-the-british-string-quartet/) - Over three days composers, performers, students, and academics have explored issues of diversity in British classical music. - [GEORGES ONSLOW: String Quintets](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/06/georges-onslow-string-quintets/) - All in all we have here a disc that more than does this fascinating and original music justice... - [A Penchant for Pinto](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/05/a-penchant-for-pinto/) - Jonathan Delbridge is performing Pinto’s piano music live in a series of online broadcasts. - [BMS pick of the Proms](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/05/bms-pick-of-the-proms/) - The Proms, at last, are back with us, with a six week season starting on 30 July. - [English Song Collection](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/05/english-song-collection/) - The Naxos English Song Collection is a massive contribution to this corner of the market, niche doubtless, but with a faithful following amongst artists and listeners... - [Bite-Back: About E J Moeran](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/05/bite-back-about-e-j-moeran/) - The item in the April Newsletter about the welcome new biography of E J Moeran, rather overlooks I feel, the substantial volume published in 1986.. - [Musical obituaries](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/05/musical-obituaries/) - Soprano Pauline Tinsley, conductor Malcolm Goldring and composer Anthony Payne are among those in the musical world who have died recently... - [G&S Festival returns](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/05/gs-festival-returns/) - The International G&S Festival is raring to go this summer. - [Howells's piano music at festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/05/howellss-piano-music-at-festival/) - Matthew Schellhorn recital to feature music from recent BMS CD. - [Joseph Horovitz celebrates 95th birthday](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/05/joseph-horovitz-celebrates-95th-birthday/) - Members of the BMS will surely wish to congratulate composer Joseph Horovitz on celebrating his 95th birthday on 26 May. - [Letter: Alfred Ashpole](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/05/letter-alfred-ashpole/) - A BMS member is searching for contact information about copyright for Alfred Ashpole’s music. - [THE KING'S ALCHEMIST: British String Trios](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/05/the-kings-alchemist-british-string-trios/) - The performances are wonderfully convincing and the recording is immediate and detailed. This is well worth exploring... - [A Feast of English Song](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/05/a-feast-of-english-song/) - The four concerts in the London Song Festival Summer Season 2021 mini series is a feast of English song. - [PROUD SONGSTERS: English Solo Song](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/05/proud-songsters-english-solo-song/) - This recital has been devised to showcase 10 alumni (nine vocalists and a pianist) of King’s College Cambridge... - [BANTOCK: British Music for Strings II](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/05/bantock-british-music-for-strings-ii/) - If not quite on the level of the Celtic Symphony the Bantock pieces are solid and enjoyable, and all credit to those involved in their rediscovery... - [Farewell to leading musical figures](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/farewell-to-leading-musical-figures/) - During March and April we said farewell to a number of leading figures from the musical world. - [Campaign to bring back William Busch songs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/campaign-to-bring-back-william-busch-songs/) - The daughter of the composer William Busch has launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring the forgotten songs of William Busch back into the world. - [CECILIA MCDOWALL: Sacred Choral Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/cecilia-mcdowall-sacred-choral-music/) - With this CD the discerning collector is once again in debt to Hyperion’s stimulating catalogue of contemporary choral repertoire, one enhanced by performances and recordings of the highest quality... - [JOHN MCCABE: Requiem Sequence and other works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/john-mccabe-requiem-sequence-and-other-works/) - The piano is brittle and startlingly exciting while the voice often has a hint of plainsong in its rhythms. The sheer violence of the Sanctus made my eyes pop... - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphonies 4 & 6](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/vaughan-williams-symphonies-4-6/) - This new issue has been welcomed with something of a fanfare, one much deserved because it is frankly magnificent... - [EDWARD GREGSON: Instrumental Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/edward-gregson-instrumental-music/) - Edward Gregson made his name a with a stunning series of highly original, tuneful works for British brass band, and latterly for orchestra. This CD follows on from an earlier Naxos disc of solo piano music. - [DREAMS MELTING: Songs by Ferguson, Clarke, Maconchy, Finzi & Tate](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/dreams-melting-songs-by-ferguson-clarke-maconchy-finzi-tate/) - All but three of the songs on this disc have been recorded before, if infrequently; however for the most part this remains unfamiliar repertoire... - [Live music returns at English Music Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/live-music-returns-at-english-music-festival/) - Live music returns this Spring as the English Music Festival brings a star-studded programme of British music to the stage over the May Bank Holiday weekend. - [Publications Spring Clean Sale!](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/publications-spring-clean-sale/) - Pick up a bargain in our spring clean sale with all publications available for a limited period at special prices. - [Three Choirs Festival 2021 announced](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/three-choirs-festival-2021-programme-announced/) - The Three Choirs Festival returns to Worcester this summer featuring over 1,000 performers across 77 events. - [Entries open for BMS Essay Competition 2021](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/entries-open-for-bms-essay-competition-2021/) - Student researchers are encouraged to enter the second BMS Essay Competition. - [ARTHUR SULLIVAN: Ballet Music - L’Île Enchantée, Thespis](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/arthur-sullivan-ballet-music-lile-enchantee-thespis/) - This intriguing CD allows the interested listener some insights into what might be termed ‘the lost Sullivan’ comprising as it does material from what is a little known, and still less frequently performed, aspect of the composer’s oeuvre... - [RONALD STEVENSON: As My Harp Sang Out of Darkness](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/ronald-stevenson-as-my-harp-sang-out-of-darkness/) - This CD is specifically issued as a ‘balm for this troubled (Covid) era’ – or, the notes say – to send ‘a message of hope and comfort, and to be a light in the darkness during a difficult time’. - [GEOFFREY POOLE: A Pianist's I Ching](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/geoffrey-poole-a-pianists-i-ching/) - I Ching is the most ancient of the classical Chinese texts, thought to be 3,000 years old. It is intended to help individuals and governments divine fortuitous decisions in life, and to accept with equanimity when things do not turn out well... - [RICHARD FRANCIS: Solo Piano Music (2006-2015)](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/04/richard-francis-solo-piano-music-2006-2015/) - ... it is excitingly virtuosic, its fast chiming chords and dizzying runs performed with great élan by the splendid solo pianist, Duncan Honeybourne... - [Elaine Hugh-Jones dies aged 93](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/03/elaine-hugh-jones-dies-aged-93/) - BMS member Elaine Hugh-Jones, a Welsh pianist, composer and an educationalist, has died aged 93. - [COLLOQUY: Works for Guitar Duo](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/03/colloquy-works-for-guitar-duo/) - Colloquy, of course, means conversation and Phibbs’s delicately beautiful Serenade is just that, so where one guitar ends another begins... - [ALEXANDER CAMPKIN: Choral Works](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/03/alexander-campkin-choral-works/) - For those interested in fresh and imaginative techniques of choral writing, with the voices treated more like sections of orchestral instruments than a choir, this CD is well worth hearing... - [Support sought for new composer films](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/03/support-sought-for-new-composer-films/) - Plans for two video documentaries on John McCabe and John Joubert have been announced by BMS. - [PHOENIX: Music for oboe/cor anglais](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/03/phoenix-music-for-oboe-cor-anglais/) - EM Records continue their outstanding support of tonal British music with this disc of British music for oboe/cor anglais and piano... - [New E J Moeran biography to be published](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/03/new-e-j-moeran-biography-to-be-published/) - A long-awaited study of the life and music of Anglo-Irish composer Ernest John Moeran is to be published... - [In Memoriam: Chris Bye](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/03/in-memoriam-chris-bye/) - It is with much sadness that we inform members of Chris Bye’s death on March 8 aged 69 shortly after being diagnosed with cancer. - [A Century of Music by British Women](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/03/a-century-of-music-by-british-women-2/) - A concert celebrated a Century of Music by British Women fon International Women's Day. - [Vacancy: BMS Journal Editor](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/03/vacancy-bms-journal-editor/) - Our present Journal Editor Dominic Daula has informed the Society that he will be stepping down from this role... - [ROBERT SIMPSON: Symphonies 5 & 6](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/03/robert-simpson-symphonies-5-6/) - By the volcanic end I felt as if I had tottered off an exhilarating roller-coaster of a work, seemingly imagined and written at white heat... - [PAUL CARR: The Light of Love](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/03/paul-carr-the-light-of-love/) - I was particularly impressed by the way in which Carr brings together the chorus with his four instruments. There are so many moments where you feel he has got everything just right.. - [WILLIAM ALWYN: Miss Julie](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/03/william-alwyn-miss-julie/) - In his middle years William Alwyn was moving away from his extensive interests in music for film towards a more symphonic musical language... - [BMS stock take sale](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/01/bms-stock-take-sale/) - We are having a stock take sale during February and March with some fantastic prices on a range of great CDs. - [Welcome to new Society members](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/02/welcome-to-new-society-members/) - We have welcomed new members from across the world who have joined the Society in recent weeks... - [ERIC COATES - Orchestral Music Volume 2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/02/eric-coates-orchestral-music-volume-2/) - This music was undoubtedly given more exposure in first half of last century, and it is good that it is still taken seriously by at least some modern conductors... - [This Curious Harp](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/02/this-curious-harp/) - Eleanor Hudson is a fine advocate of this little known music, much of which is quite challenging, technically. She has been closely but atmospherically recorded... - [Robert Simpson centenary offer](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/02/robert-simpson-centenary-offer/) - Andrew Youdell has a seven CD box set in mint condition available for sale of the Hyperion recordings of the complete symphonies of Robert Simpson. - [Obituary: Ross Winters](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/02/obituary-ross-winters/) - The former Professor of Recorder at the Royal College of Music, Ross Winters, has died aged 69. - [Thurston Dart anniversaries](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/02/thurston-dart-anniversaries/) - Saturday 6 March marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Thurston Dart and 3 September will be the centenary of his birth. - [Obituary: Osian Ellis](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/01/obituary-osian-ellis/) - Osian Ellis, one of Britain's most widely respected harpists, died on January 6th at the age of 92. - [Obituary: Steuart Bedford](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/02/obituary-steuart-bedford/) - Former artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival Steuart Bedford has died aged 81. - [Music initiative goes live](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/02/new-music-initiative-launched/) - A new initiative sees musicians, actors, comedians and podcasters from around the world recommend their favourite piece of classical music in a series one minute videos. - [SIR WILLIAM WALTON: Chamber Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/02/sir-william-walton-chamber-music/) - Walton shows flashes of astonishing genius in this composition of his punchy four-movement Piano Quartet written in 1919 at the tender age of just 16... - [Obituary: Eric Wetherell](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/02/obituary-eric-wetherell/) - Eric Wetherell, a BMS member and senior musical producer at BBC Radio 3 until his retirement, has died aged 95. - [DAME ETHEL SMYTH: The Prison](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/02/dame-ethel-smyth-the-prison/) - The Prison, Dame Ethel Smyth’s only symphony and her last major work, is not really a symphony in any conventional sense... - [RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Folk Songs Volume 2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/02/ralph-vaughan-williams-folk-songs-volume-2/) - The charisma and charm that oozes and enchants its way throughout Albion’s second collection of Vaughan William’s Folk Songs is masterfully delivered here... - [DAVID MATTHEWS: A Vision of the Sea](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/02/david-matthews-a-vision-of-the-sea/) - A deeply felt affinity with nature proudly sits at the heart of David Matthews’ latest collection of works, a collaboration with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Jac van Steen... - [ENGLISH MUSIC FOR STRINGS](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/02/english-music-for-strings/) - This disc represents the latest triumph from Mr Wilson and the Sinfonia of London. Four important ‘B’s of English music are included... - [RICHARD DURRANT: Rewilding](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/02/richard-durrant-rewilding/) - It is hard to classify this music. It has strong flavours of traditional folk music, early music perhaps, and film or television music too. It is fresh, attractive and easy to listen to... - [CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: Songs of Faith, Love and Nonsense](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/01/charles-villiers-stanford-songs-of-faith-love-and-nonsense/) - This generous collection of song settings contains 33 items: 21 are sung by baritone Roderick Williams, 10 by tenor James Way and there are two short piano solos played by Andrew West. - [REAWAKENED: Clarinet Concertos](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/01/reawakened-clarinet-concertos/) - The aim of this disc, ‘Reawakened’, is an attempt, in three cases. to restore to public favour forgotten clarinet concertos and, in addition, to widen the appeal and scope of the fourth work. - [Coming soon on GSOpera.tv](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/01/coming-soon-on-gsopera-tv/) - The new Gilbert & Sullivan streaming channel gsopera.tv has announced its catalogue of upcoming productions. - [New opera recording by Stephen Dodgson](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2021/01/new-opera-recording-by-stephen-dodgson/) - A new recording of the opera Margaret Catchpole by British composer Stephen Dodgson is being released on Naxos. - [ARNOLD: The Dancing Master](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/12/malcolm-arnold-the-music-master/) - A BBC rejection of Malcolm Arnold’s only opera still leaves indelible scars after 60 years. It was one of many disappointments to befall the prolific composer. - [Music and Migration in Georgian Britain: The Story of Feliks Yaniewicz](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/12/feliks-yaniewicz/) - Read about a musical migrant who settled in Britain in 1790, living in London and Liverpool until he made Edinburgh his home from 1815 until his death in 1848. - [YORK BOWEN: Fragments](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/12/york-bowen-fragments/) - The revival on CD of Bowen in recent years has been astonishing, although I wonder if he has yet found a wider public... - [DICKY BIRD HOP: Light Music Classics](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/12/dicky-bird-hop-light-music-classics/) - This disc is a collection of 22 tracks of the sort of easy-listening music much in vogue in the first half or so of last century. - [Who's Who?](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/12/whos-who/) - Some of our BMS friends and members have been sorting through their photo collections over Christmas and have unearthed some interesting photographs of musicians. Now we would like your help to identify who they are. Some we recognise but we are not sure about many of them. Can you let us know if you recognise - [A Century of Music by British Women](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/12/a-century-of-music-by-british-women/) - Celebrating A Century of Music by British Women (1921-2021), Madeleine Mitchell directs two concerts on International Women’s Day which will include the world premiere of a new violin work by Errollyn Wallen CBE. - [Dame Fanny Waterman dies](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/12/dame-fanny-waterman-dies/) - It is with regret that we announce the sad death of Dame Fanny Waterman on December 20th at the age of 100. - [A Nice Conundrum](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/12/a-nice-conundrum/) - Pianist, composer and writer Alan Poulton has announced the publication of his autobiography A Nice Conundrum - my life in two worlds. - [ENTENTE MUSICALE: Music for Violin and Piano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/12/entente-musicale-music-for-violin-and-piano/) - This carefully designed and interesting programme reflects the cultural warmth which developed in Edwardian times between France and England... - [PETER DICKINSON: Chamber and Instrumental Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/12/peter-dickinson-chamber-and-instrumental-music/) - Though the music in this disc stretches from Metamorphosis in 1955 to the 2018 revision of Tranquillo, both for solo violin, its focus is rather more on the earlier part of Peter Dickinson’s compositional life. - [COOKE: Chamber Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/12/arnold-cooke-chamber-music/) - These are all outstanding first ever recordings of stunningly well-crafted chamber works. Many have been broadcast before but the Pleyel Ensemble are to be congratulated for being first to give them a more permanent afterlife - [Obituary: conductor Kenneth Alwyn](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/12/obituary-conductor-kenneth-alwyn/) - Kenneth Alwyn, who died on December 10th at the age of 95, was one of the busiest British conductors. - [PARRY, BANTOCK, MAXWELL DAVIES: The English Connection](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/parry-bantock-maxwell-davies-the-english-connection/) - This beautifully produced SACD unites three disparate English works which are seldom heard in concert, and certainly not on the same programme. - [Pax Britannica: Organ music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/pax-britannica-organ-music/) - This is a uniquely interesting recording from Australia. It brings together, in one place, organ compositions by many late nineteenth and early twentieth century composers. Some are largely forgotten... - [Heaven Full of Stars: Choral Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/heaven-full-of-stars-choral-music/) - The repertoire of the Vasari Singers under their indefatigable musical director, Jeremy Backhouse, has played a significant role in the commissioning and performance of a considerable quantity of contemporary sacred choral music. - [GEORGE DYSON: The Open Window](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/george-dyson-the-open-window/) - I have heard it said that Sir George Dyson’s church music is the musical equivalent of the Conservative party at prayer. It could be thought that some of this piano music, much of it written for young pianists was for nice, suburban middle class children to play on Sunday afternoons. - [Dialogues on Listening, Composing and Culture](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/dialogues-on-listening-composing-and-culture/) - Here we have another beautifully produced and thought-provoking text from the Boydell Press. It features on this occasion the music and thought of the composer Julian Anderson, who is internationally known as one of the leading creative spirits of his generation. - [Memories of Peter Wishart](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/memories-of-peter-wishart/) - Arriving at the Guildhall School of Music early in 1961, the old building by Blackfriars Bridge, I was directed to a room upstairs, where, after knocking, the door was opened by Peter Wishart surrounded by the delicious aroma of French Disque Bleu cigarettes... - [Christmas music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/christmas-music/) - Tis the season to be jolly - here are a few of the Christmas themed CDs available this year. - [Help needed with BBC archive recordings](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/help-needs-with-bbc-archive-recordings/) - Can you help with information about a potentially fascinating collection of around 12 BBC live archive recordings? - [Kaikhosru Sorabji's Letters to Philip Heseltine](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/kaikhosru-sorabjis-letters-to-philip-heseltine-book-released/) - Two extraordinary personalities, and one remarkable friendship, are reflected in the unique corpus of letters, available in a complete scholarly edition for the first time. - [STANFORD: String Quintets and Intermezzi](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/stanford-string-quintets-and-intermezzi/) - The Dante Quartet has already made outstanding recordings of Stanford’s String Quartets. This is a worthy introduction to the music of a fine composer who surely deserves to be heard more often. - [Welcome to new BMS members](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/welcome-to-new-bms-member-polo-piatti/) - New BMS member Polo Piatti is an award-winning British-Argentine composer and concert pianist. - [HOLST: Alpha and Omega](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/holst-alpha-and-omega/) - ... I can truthfully assert that the rest of the disc, its major part, is unalloyed joy. It includes all 17 of Holst’s carols, two of which are recorded for the first time. - [Obituary: Dennis Wickens](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/obituary-dennis-wickens/) - It is with great regret that we have learnt of the death of composer Dennis Wickens at the age of 94. - [Tribute: Eric Parkin](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/tribute-eric-parkin/) - A tribute to Eric Parkin, a pianist who championed music by British composers, who died earlier this year aged 95. - [PAUL LEWIS: Harp Scenes](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/paul-lewis-harp-scenes/) - Lewis’s music is, quite rightly, described as a ‘luscious oeuvre’ and so if you want harp music that is idiomatic, tuneful and lyrical then this disc is for you... - [Music items for sale](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/music-items-for-sale/) - Former member of the Society, Hilary Swift, has the following BMS and British music related items for sale for a small contribution. - [The Rutland Boughton Music Trust](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/the-rutland-boughton-music-trust/) - Although still work in progress, the new Rutland Boughton Music Trust website does include a complete work list with sources for his music and a discography. - [The Drowning Shore](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/the-drowning-shore/) - From the glass panes of screens to border-seas, to the seal of our own bodies - how do we transcend the divisions by which we define ourselves? A new cantata in Scots and Yiddish explores the physical realities of language in our increasingly virtual world. - [WALTON: Chamber Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/walton-chamber-music/) - From the first folk-like theme the Piano Quartet of the teenage Walton breathes pure English Pastoral - an impression only reinforced by the heat-haze of the delicious slow movement. - [BRITTEN: A Ceremony of Carols](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/britten-a-ceremony-of-carols/) - he glittering tinsel of a seasonal Clare College this year outshines its better-known neighbour, Kings, with a spectacular concert of music set to become the star of this year’s burgeoning collection of Christmas releases. - [PARRY, ELGAR & JACOB: British Music for Strings 1](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/parry-elgar-jacob-british-music-for-strings-1/) - This lacklustre trio of prosaic string pieces don’t happily co-exist together, especially under the grandiosely overblown title of this release. An odd mix of works by those well-regarded British composers, Elgar, Parry and Jacob, certainly make uneasy bedfellows... - [Ailsa Dixon recording project](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/10/ailsa-dixon-recording-project/) - With so many concerts on hold, it is good to hear of recording projects around the country including two new song recordings released online by soprano Lucinda Cox. - [RICHARD BLACKFORD: Blewbury Air](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/11/richard-blackford-blewbury-air/) - This brief miniature for cello and piano was written in the summer of 2019 as, in the words of the composer, a “love song” to the village of Blewbury in Oxfordshire where he lives. - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Job/Songs of Travel](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/10/vaughan-williams-job-songs-of-travel/) - Here Ralph Vaughan Williams fervently reveals why one of his most communicative works is reverently worshipped by all. That potent Elder-Hallé combination unashamedly revels in this musical extravaganza. - [TAVENER: No Longer Mourn for Me](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/10/tavener-no-longer-mourn-for-me/) - ... taken from Tavener’s set of Three Shakespeare Sonnets, originally composed for the South Iceland Chamber Choir is No Longer Mourn for Me. Although by far the shortest work, it gives its name to the whole CD. It sounds absolutely delicious in this version for eight cellos by Steven Isserlis. - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No 5](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/10/vaughan-williams-symphony-no-5/) - This excellent series of VW symphonies continues. Mr Brabbins and his forces have reached number 5 so there are 4 more to go and they are eagerly awaited. He is ‘Mr Reliable’. Like previous issues, his music-making is deeply considered, and paced and shaped with certainty, with the result being a very satisfying experience. - [JOHN RUTTER: Anthems, Hymns and Gloria for Brass Band](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/10/john-rutter-anthems-hymns-and-gloria-for-brass-band/) - For many churches with the right resources John Rutter is a hero... he has created a whole series of much-loved anthems and carol arrangements. - [Composers' plaque challenge](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/10/composers-plaque-challenge/) - Britten’s birthplace is a comfortable B&B where one can sleep in the composer’s bedroom and have breakfast in his father’s dental surgery. - [Gilbert & Sullivan now available online](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/10/gilbert-sullivan-now-available-online/) - Following the cancellation of this year's International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in Harrogate due to the pandemic, a new online streaming service – G&S Opera TV - has been launched. - [BRITTEN: Peter Grimes](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/09/britten-peter-grimes/) - The mysterious and chilling Peter Grimes haunts us all. Benjamin Britten’s anti-hero has become one of British music’s most complex figures in opera. - [GREGSON: Piano Solo Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/09/gregson-piano-solo-music/) - Edward Gregson, 75 last year, is one of those rarities among composers of his generation in that throughout his career he has not abandoned tonality or melody and still developed an international reputation. - [LYNNE PLOWMAN: The Beachcomber](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/09/lynne-plowman-the-beachcomber/) - This CD offers just under an hour of agreeable if slightly - well, slight - listening, and as such it might be best thought of as a sampler or calling card for a composer whose major achievements are to be found elsewhere. - [VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Folk Songs Volume 1](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/10/vaughan-williams-folk-songs-volume-1/) - Music aficionados who voraciously feed off the charming wit and harmonies of Ralph Vaughan Williams would do well to take note of this first of a series of releases which encompass the composer’s lifetime passion for folk songs. - [LENNOX BERKELEY: Complete Piano Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/10/lennox-berkeley-complete-piano-music/) - Berkeley wrote piano music from the mid-1920s to a few years before he died in 1989, but these two CDs contain less than two hours’ music. This is a quite comprehensive survey, but should it be called The Complete Piano Works when there are others for piano four hands? - [Great reviews for BMS Howells CD](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/10/great-reviews-for-bms-howells-cd/) - The excellent BMS CD of piano music by Herbert Howells and performed by Matthew Schellhorn has been receiving fantastic reviews in the music press. - [Welsh composer releases new album](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/09/welsh-composer-releases-new-album/) - Welsh composer Lynne Plowman has released her new album The Beachcomber on the Prima Facie label. - [Welcome to new members](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/10/meet-new-member-robert-stove/) - Australia’s Robert James Stove is currently in the final stages of his PhD candidature at the Sydney Conservatorium; his thesis is on the subject of Stanford’s organ music. - [Glasgow Bells: Organ Music by Alan Gibb & Friends](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/10/glasgow-bells-organ-music-by-alan-gibb-friends/) - The first three works are unusual since they use different instruments along with the organ. The first of these gives its title to the CD as a whole. It is Glasgow Bells. Based on an earlier composition by Gibbs, Glasgow Toccata, it brings together master organist Kevin Bowyer famed for his prowess with ‘very difficult music’, and celebrated percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie. - [Loquacious: Music by Peter Fender](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/10/loquacious-music-by-peter-fender/) - The very slim booklet note contains just the three song texts and a few minimal words from the composer about the music, so I had to go to his several websites to discover that he is a conductor and composer who works with ensembles in London and Sussex, and abroad such as in Bulgaria and Italy. - [British Song: Holst, Clarke, Gurney & Bridge](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/10/british-song-holst-clarke-gurney-bridge/) - The first of a three-disc series, much of this repertoire will be familiar to BMS members, although as Nathan Williamson points out in his informative and enthusiastic notes, it remains under-appreciated. - [James Joyce's Favourite Songs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/10/james-joyces-favourite-songs/) - This is, in effect, a Schubertian journey that charts ecstatic love thence to melancholy and despair. There is a fine balance between the vocal means – romantic, withdrawn, only once specifically folk-like – and the varied piano writing which is colourful, clear, and sometimes turbulent. - [Meet our new Vice President](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/09/meet-our-new-vice-president/) - Roderick Williams is one of the most sought after baritones of his generation - and has become a Vice President of the British Music Society. - [Geoff Cummings-Knight: The Road Less Travelled](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/09/geoff-cummings-knight-the-road-less-travelled/) - In his introductory note to the first piece on the CD, pianist Duncan Honeybourne writes regarding the music of Cummings-Knight that it is ‘Always steeped in his musical inheritance and the example of composers he loves’. - [Stanford & Howells Remembered](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/09/stanford-howells-remembered/) - This is a re-mastered collection of 21 tracks of recordings of church music made in 1992. The issue is offered at ‘super bargain price’. - [Blue plaque for Alan Rawsthorne](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/09/blue-plaque-for-alan-rawsthorne/) - Following recent feature about blue plaques, here is a picture of the Blue Plaque which was officially installed by John McCabe during the annual Rawsthorne Weekend in 1998. - [William Lloyd writes about the George Lloyd Society](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/09/william-lloyd-writes-about-the-george-lloyd-society/) - The George Lloyd Society has recently published their latest occasional newsletter, with much interesting material. - [English Music Festival - Autumn 2020](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/09/english-music-festival-autumn-2020/) - The English Music Festival (EMF) is playing its part in restarting music-making in the UK with the Sussex Autumn Festival on 9 to 10 October. - [Michael Csányi-Wills: Symphony No 1](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/09/michael-csanyi-wills-symphony-no-1/) - The symphony opens with a sense of coiled drama, as over a throbbing pulse, sweeping strings and harp, alongside squealing winds and brass, create a phantasmagoric mood. - [Songs for Sir John: A Tribute to Sir John Manduell](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/09/songs-for-sir-john-a-tribute-to-sir-john-manduell/) - This collection of compositions by 15 living composers is perfectly described in an introduction by Paul Hindmarsh of the Royal Northern College of Music as a ‘Garland of tributes to Sir John Manduell. - [Music for Stage & Screen](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/09/music-for-stage-screen/) - These remastered recordings are taken from early recordings and film soundtracks. The music ranges from ballets Holst's The Perfect Fool and Falla's El Amor Brujo, through incidental music for a play Delius's Hassan, to films, with well-known music by Vaughan Williams, Walton, and Bliss. - [A Lad's Love](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/09/a-lads-love/) - This is a disc of English songs with a strong bias towards settings of A.E. Housman. - [Musical lives lost](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/08/musical-lives-lost/) - Summer 2020 saw the deaths of three musicians: violinist Ida Haendel, guitarist Julian Bream and music lecturer Terry Barfoot. - [Malcolm Lipkin: Recollections](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/08/malcolm-lipkin-recollections/) - There are many British ‘lost composers’ of the 20th century, several born between the two world wars, who even after an encouraging start fell out of favour, or out of fashion, in their later years. - [D'Erlanger & Dunhill: Piano Quintets](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/08/derlanger-dunhill-piano-quintets/) - Fine tailoring, tobacco, aftershave (‘a spicy woody fragrance’) – the name Dunhill evokes some resonant images... does the music in any way match my rather random associations? - [New Talent British International Youth Music competition](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/08/youth-music-competition-2020/) - 210 musicians from 27 countries took part in the third online New Talent British International Youth Music competition. - [A Musical Missionary: The Life and Music of Dulcie Holland](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/08/a-musical-missionary/) - In these days of COVID-19 monotony one occasionally gets a surprise to brighten up one’s day. Recently I received a delightful package in my letter box – a newly written biography of Dulcie Holland. - [Elgar: Falstaff & Sea Picture](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/08/elegar-falstaff-sea-picture/) - There is a wonderfully enticing Elgar revolution afoot in Germany right now and the enduring baton of conductor, Daniel Barenboim, is paving a major part of the way. - [The Cyril Scott Companion](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2019/05/the-cyril-scott-companion/) - Boydell and Brewer’s catalogue includes an impressive array of texts on British music to which this substantial and beautifully presented volume is a very welcome addition. - [Shopping with Grace Williams](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2019/05/shopping-with-grace-williams/) - A personal memoir of meeting Grace Williams in the late 1960s at her home in Barry. - [Book review: The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/04/book-review-the-music-of-peter-maxwell-davies/) - A disastrous Promenade Concert reception became a momentous turning point in the stormy life of composer, Peter Maxwell Davies. - [Distinguished organist Jennifer Bate dies aged 75](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/04/distinguished-organist-jennifer-bate-dies-aged-75/) - A distinguished Life member of the British Music Society since 1980 as well as a Vice President, Jennifer Bate OBE, lost her life to cancer on 25 March. - [BMS Howells CD release](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/07/bms-howells-cd-release/) - Congratulations to pianist Matthew Schellhorn whose new BMS recording of piano music by Herbert Howells has made the front cover of the July/August 2020 International Piano magazine. - [Songs by Sir Hamilton Harty](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/08/songs-by-sir-hamilton-harty/) - Somm has again found a fascinating niche in the market by throwing light on a composer better known for his orchestral works like 'With the Wild Geese'. - [Cowie: Concerto for Orchestra / Clarinet Concerto No. 2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2020/08/cowie-concerto-for-orchestra-clarinet-concerto-no-2/) - Edward Cowie is a composer, painter, writer, and naturalist. Many of his works are inspired by man and his relation to the natural world. - [In praise of C.B. Rootham](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2019/05/in-praise-of-c-b-rootham/) - Philip L. Scowcroft has contacted BMS to highlight the music of Cyril Bradley Rootham. Scarcely a household name in British music, yet one who Philip Scowcroft advocates deserves better recognition. - [John McCabe's lost recital](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2019/05/john-mccabes-lost-recital/) - In 1985 the internationally renowned pianist and composer John McCabe recorded an album of contemporary piano music by Australian, American and British composers. ## Pages - [Home](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/) - Bringing Britain's musical heritage alive 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. - [British Music Journals](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/british-music-journals/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”267px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] British Music Journals [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] As a BMS member you can view articles from past Journals for free. 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[Volume 47, 2025](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/project/volume-47-2025/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” min_height=”663px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/BMS-Journal-Vol.47-Cover-scaled.jpg” alt=”BMS Journal Cover 2021″ title_text=”BMS Journal Vol.47 Cover” _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.6″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” min_height=”489px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] BMS Members: Click on the articles to download VOLUME 47, 2025 Contents Eric - [Volume 45, 2023](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/project/volume-45-2023/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” min_height=”663px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BMS-Journal-Vol-45-front-cover-scaled.jpg” alt=”BMS Journal Cover 2021″ title_text=”BMS Journal Vol 45 front cover” _builder_version=”4.25.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.6″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” min_height=”489px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] BMS Members: Click on the articles to download VOLUME 45, 2023 - [Volume 5, 1983](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/project/volume-5-1983/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” min_height=”663px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Vol-5-Cover-pdf.jpg” title_text=”Vol 5 Cover” _builder_version=”4.25.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.0″ text_text_color=”#0C71C3″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” min_height=”489px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” inline_fonts=”Abel” global_colors_info=”{}”] BMS Members: Click on the articles to download VOLUME 5, 1983 Contents Vaughan Williams’ Pilgrims Progressby Stan Meares - [Volume 6, 1984](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/project/volume-6-1984/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” min_height=”663px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Vol-6-Front-cover-e1627471372762.jpg” title_text=”Vol 6 – Front cover” _builder_version=”4.25.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.0″ text_text_color=”#0C71C3″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” min_height=”489px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” inline_fonts=”Abel”] BMS Members: Click on the articles to download VOLUME 6, 1984 Contents The Pre-Raphaelites and Musicby - [Volume 43, 2021](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/project/volume-43-2021-2/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” min_height=”663px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/BMS-Journal-Cover-0122-aw-1-jpg.jpg” alt=”BMS Journal Cover 2021″ title_text=”BMS Journal Cover 0122 aw-1 jpg” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” min_height=”489px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”] BMS Members: Click on the articles to download VOLUME 43, 2021 - [Volume 44, 2022](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/project/volume-43-2021/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” min_height=”663px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/BMS-2022-front-cover-pdf.jpg” title_text=”BMS 2022 front cover” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” min_height=”489px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”] BMS Members: Click on the articles to download VOLUME 44, 2022 Contents ‘Some are born late’: Herbert Howells’s epochal - [Volume 25, 2003](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/project/9061/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” min_height=”663px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Vol-25-cover-pdf.jpg” title_text=”Vol 25 cover” _builder_version=”4.11.1″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.9″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.11.1″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” min_height=”489px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]BMS Members: Click on the articles to download VOLUME 25, 2003 Contents The Lennox Bereley Centenaryby Peter Dickinson Roger - 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Moeran Songs of Springtime plus six other Partsongs Arthur Benjamin Three Mystical Pieces Edgar Bainton In the Wilderness, Night, Open thy Gates Leslie Heward The Witches’ Sabbath REVIEWS "extremes of joyous excitement … heart-tearing sadness … Lovers of British choral music - [Lennox Berkeley: Music for Solo Piano and Piano Duet](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/product/lennox-berkeley-music-for-solo-piano-and-piano-duet/) - Raphael Terroni with Norman Beedie BMS416CD Music for Piano Solo: Six Preludes Op.23 (1945) Sonata Op.20 (1941-45) Five Short Pieces Op.4 (1934) Music for Piano Duet: Sonatina for four hands Op.39 (1954) Theme and Variations for four hands Op.73 (1968) Palm Court Waltz for four hands Op.81 No.2 (1971) REVIEWS Gramophone Magazine Critics’ Choice 1994 "Terroni - [Arnold Cooke: Three String Sonatas](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/product/arnold-cooke-three-string-sonatas/) - Susanne Stanzeleit, Violin Morgan Goff, Viola Raphael Wallfisch, Cello Raphael Terroni, Piano Naxos 8571362 - [Kenneth Leighton: Music for Solo Piano and Piano Duet](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/product/kenneth-leighton-music-for-solo-piano-and-piano-duet/) - Kenneth Leighton & Colin Kingsley, pianos BMS408CDR £7.50 Four Romantic Pieces, Op95 - played by Kenneth Leighton Sonata for Four Hands Op92 - played by Kenneth Leighton and Colin Kingsley - [Grace Williams Chamber Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/product/grace-williams-chamber-music/) - London Chamber Ensemble Madeleine Mitchell violin Naxos 8.571380 - [British Music for Cello and Piano: Wordsworth, Holbrooke, Busch](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/product/british-music-for-cello-and-piano-wordsworth-holbrooke-busch/) - Raphael Wallfisch cello Raphael Terroni piano Naxos: 8571352 - [Benjamin & Bainton Songs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/product/benjamin-bainton-songs/) - Susan Bickley mezzo soprano Christopher Gillet baritone Wendy Hiscocks piano Naxos 8.571377 - [Patric Standford: First Symphony (The Seasons)](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/product/patric-standford-first-symphony-the-seasons/) - Cello Concerto Prelude to a Fantasy (The Naiades) Raphael Wallfisch cello Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by David Lloyd-Jones Naxos 8571356 - [John Joubert: Choral Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/product/john-joubert-choral-music/) - The Louis Halsey Singers BMS102CDH John Joubert celebrated his 80th birthday on 20 March 2007. 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Benefits of joining the society: Receive regular newsletters about British music events, reviews news and opinions from around the world Discounts on all the BMS CDs and publications Have contact with a network of British music enthusiasts - [The Thurston Connection: English Music for Clarinet and Piano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/product/the-thurston-connection-english-music-for-clarinet-and-piano/) - Nicholas Cox clarinet Ian Buckle piano BMS440CD Arnold Bax (1883-1953): Sonata l Molto moderato ll Vivace Roger Fiske (1910-1987): Sonata l Andante con moto e rubato ll Variations lll Allegro molto Iain Hamilton (1922-2000): Three Nocturnes Op.6 l Adagio mistico ll Allegro diabolico lll Lento tranquillo Hugh Wood (b.1932): Paraphrase on Bird of Paradise Op.26 - [An English Recital](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/product/an-english-recital/) - John McCabe piano BMS103CDH Vaughan Williams The Lake in the Mountains Hymn-Tune Prelude on 'Song13' by Gibbons Suite of Six Short Pieces Gustav Holst Two Pieces for Piano Two Northumbrian Folk Tunes John Ireland Sonatina Arnold Bax Allegretto quasi Andante Peter Warlock Five Folk-Song Preludes E.J.Moeran Bank Holiday Benjamin Britten Night Piece (Notturno) John Joubert - [Twentieth Century Piano Concertos: Bliss, Stravinsky & Shostakovich](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/product/twentieth-century-piano-concertos-bliss-stravinsky-shostakovich/) - Noel Mewton-Wood piano Harry Sevenstern trumpet Utrecht Symphony Orchestra BMS101CDH Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, Op35 This album was the first BMS Historic release in the society's 25th anniversary year. Digitally remastered and re-released - [English Recorder Music: The Dolmetsch Legacy](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/product/english-recorder-music-the-dolmetsch-legacy/) - Ross Winters recorder Andrew Ball, piano BMS425CD Gordon Jacob Variations Cyril Scott Aubade Edmund Rubbra Sonatina Op.128 Antony Hopkins Suite Edmund Rubbra Passacaglia Sopra 'Plusieurs Regrets' Op.113 John Gardner Little Suite in C Op.60 Edmund Rubbra Meditazioni Sopra 'Coeurs Désolés' Op.67 Colin Hand Sonata Breve Franz Reizenstein Partita REVIEWS "Varied, well-played tribute to Carl Dolmetsch - [English Cello Sonatas: Foulds, Walker, Bowen](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/product/english-cello-sonatas-foulds-walker-bowen/) - Jo Cole cello John Talbot piano BMS423CD (two CDs for the price of one) World Premiere recordings John Foulds Sonata for Cello and Piano Op.6 Ernest Walker Sonata in F minor for cello and piano Op.41 York Bowen Sonata in A major for cello and piano Op.64 REVIEWS "... a performance of palpable, indeed eloquent, - [English Piano Trios: Bridge, Friskin, Ireland, Moeran](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/product/english-piano-trios-bridge-friskin-ireland-moeran/) - Caroline Balding, violin Jo Cole, cello Timothy Lissimore, piano BMS418CD Frank Bridge (1879-1941) Phantasie in C minor James Friskin (1886-1967) Phantasie in E minor John Ireland (1879-1962) Phantasie in A minor E. 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– celebrating music, art, place and community - [Missa - Choral Music of the Golden Age Renaissance](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/missa-choral-music/) - This concert, which takes its name from the root of the English word “mass”, will showcase the sacred works of renowned composers from William Byrd and Thomas Tallis - [Premiere at Sunday Evensong](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/premiere-at-sunday-evensong/) - Ailsa Dixon’s setting of Psalm 15, 'Lord who shall dwell under your protection' (written c.1990 and found in manuscript after she died) will have its first performance - [WPO Symphonic Variations](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/wpo-symphonic-variations/) - Join Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra for their summer concert,to hear Franck’s Variations Symphoniques, and Mozart Piano Concerto no 27 in B-flat - [British Landscapes](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/british-landscapes/) - The St Paul's Sinfonia perform Vaughan Williams's Symphony No 3 alongside work by Grace Williams and Avril Coleridge-Taylor - [Bollington Chamber Concerts: Hugh Mackay & Julian Chan](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/hugh-mackay-and-julian-chan/) - Part of the Bollington Chamber Concerts 2026-2027 season, Scottish cellist Hugh Mackay and pianist Julian Chan will perform music by Birtwistle, Faure, Debussy and Prokofiev - [BBC Proms 2026](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/bbc-proms-2026/) - The BBC Proms returns this summer for an unforgettable eight weeks of music featuring over 3,000 artists and 20 world premieres - [Bollington Chamber Concerts: Gould Piano Trio](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/gould-piano-trio-october-2026/) - Part of the Bollington Chamber Concerts 2026-2027 season, the Gould Piano Trio will perform music by James MacMillan, Haydn, Schumann and Mendelssohn - [Bollington Chamber Concerts: Ensemble 360](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/ensemble-360-january-2027/) - Part of the Bollington Chamber Concerts 2026-2027 season, Ensemble 360 will perform music by Charlotte Bray, Elgar, Mozart, Finzi, Rebecca Clarke and Bax - [Bollington Chamber Concerts: Aestus Quartet](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/aestus-quartet-september-2026/) - Part of the Bollington Chamber Concerts 2026-2027 season, the Aestus Quartet perform music by Adrienne Spilsbury, Haydn, Caroline Shaw and Ravel - [Ethel Smyth: Mass in D](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/ethel-smyth-mass-in-d/) - A very rare chance to hear this powerful, Romantic, convention-defying Mass in a performance by the Six Centuries Chamber Choir and South London Sinfonietta - [Oare String Orchestra](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/oare-string-orchestra/) - The concert programme includes The Seafarer by Peter Aviss; works by Albinoni and Handel, Bach Chaconne (arr. 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[Recital featuring Dance to the Piper’s Tune](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/ilkley-recital-april-2026/) - This recital will feature Wendy Hiscocks' Dance to the Piper’s Tune plus other works by Thomas Pitfield, Purcell, Edward Gregson, Robin Walker, Martin Ellerby and John Paynter - [Recital featuring Dance to the Piper’s Tune](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/heaton-moor-recital/) - This recital will feature the world premiere of Wendy Hiscocks' Dance to the Piper’s Tune plus other works by Thomas Pitfield, Purcell, Edward Gregson, Robin Walker, Martin Ellerby and John Paynter - [Mayfair Organ Concert: Augustine Cox](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/mayfair-organ-concert-april-2026/) - Part of the Mayfair Organ Series at St. George’s Hanover Square, this concert by Augustine Cox will feature the London Premiere of Wendy Hiscocks’ Exultate - [Cheshire Chamber Collective: Music for a Summer Evening](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/cheshire-chamber-collective-july-2026/) - Cheshire Chamber Collective are delighted to share orchestral, vocal and chamber music written by their in-house composer/arranger Adrienne Spilsbury - [Lindow Ensemble morning concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/lindow-ensemble-morning-concert/) - A concert of string orchestra music for a summer's morning at St. James and Emmanuel Church, Didsbury, Manchester - [Royal School of Church Music Festival Service 2026](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/royal-school-of-church-music-festival-service-2026/) - A wonderful opportunity to sing Choral Evensong under the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral, directed by Andrew Carwood, Director of Music - [Hidden Heroines](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/hidden-heroines/) - This concert by Worthing Symphony Orchestra features Paul Carr's Saxophone Concerto with soloist Rob Burton plus works by Haydn, Morricone, Shostakovic and Mozart - [The English Music Festival 2026](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-english-music-festival-2026/) - The English Music Festival is embarking on an exciting new chapter as it prepares to delight audiences in the spectacular setting of Dartington Hall in Devon - ['Rosalind' Premiere](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/rosalind-premiere/) - 'Rosalind' is a new opera exploring the life, science, and legacy of British X-Ray Crystallographer, Rosalind Franklin, whose Photo 51 helped discover the double-helix structure of DNA - [A Celebration of Benjamin Britten](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/a-celebration-of-benjamin-britten/) - 'Fast becoming the go-to champions for contemporary British music…' (Gramophone), London Choral Sinfonia marks this Britten anniversary year with some of his most celebrated music for strings - [Duo Azur in concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/duo-azur-in-concert-bristol/) - Toulon-based Duo Azur perform a programme that includes that works by Danzi, Beethoven, Fiona T Frank, and Robert Schumann - [Duo Azur in concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/duo-azur-in-concert-chepstow/) - Toulon-based Duo Azur bring the special sonority of the basset-horn for this concert blending old and new, with guest composer and violinist Fiona T Frank - [Triple Bill Piano Concerto](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/triple-bill-piano-concerto/) - An evening of classical music, featuring three captivating and contrasting piano concertos by Mozart, Chopin and McCabe - [The Esterhazy Singers: Haydn and Holst concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-esterhazy-singers-14-march/) - The Esterhazy Singers of London will be performing Holst's The Cloud Messenger together with Haydn's Missa Sancti Nicolai - [Five Beacons of Light - A Cantata for the Sea](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/five-beacons-of-light/) - A concert of powerful choral music performed by the vibrant young voices of Youth Choral Worcs, with some of the UK’s most inspirational artists, composers and musicians - [St Paul's Sinfonia: Friends and Contemporaries](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/friends-and-contemporaries/) - St Paul's Sinfonia present a concert - Friends and Contemporaries - featuring British composers Avril Coleridge-Taylor, Ruth Gipps and Sir Malcolm Arnold - [The Phoenix Consort: Renewal](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/renewal/) - The Phoenix Consort presents a variety of choral works by British composers including William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, Lucy Walker, John Sheppard and Bob Chilcott - [The Elgar Sinfonia of London](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-elgar-sinfonia-of-london-march-2026/) - The Elgar Sinfonia of London perform music by British composers Ruth Gipps, E J Moeran and John Senter - [Dixit Dominus: Bach, Handel & Mozart](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/dixit-dominus-bach-handel-mozart/) - West London Chorus celebrates its 50th anniversary with a concert featuring three of the greatest composers of the 18th century - [Londinium: A Farewell to Arms](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/londinium-a-farewell-to-arms/) - Chamber choir Londinium and acclaimed collaborative cellist Clare O'Connell perform a programme anchored by two masterpieces for cello and choir: John Tavener's Svyati and Richard Rodney Bennett's A Farewell to Arms - [Upon A British Landscape](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/upon-a-british-landscape/) - The Hill Ensemble presents a celebration of British String Trio music as well as other British works arranged for string trio - [Women Immigrants and Refugees in Britain](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/women-immigrants-and-refugees-in-britain-2/) - A tribute to the women who have come to this country as immigrants and refugees since 1945, acknowledging the huge contribution they have made and continue to make to British life - [NSO Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/nso-concert-april-2026/) - Northampton Symphony Orchestra perform music by Emmanuel Chabrier, Sergei Rachmaninov and Sir Arnold Bax - [Women of Note](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/leith-hill-music-festival-2026-900-814/) - A feast of music by a wide range of female composers on International Women’s Day, including Ruth Gipps, Doreen Carwithen, Avril Coleridge-Taylor and Madeleine Dring - [BCO Spring Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/leith-hill-music-festival-2026-900/) - The Bloomsbury Chamber Orchestra Spring Concert will feature the Delius Double Concerto and violinist Madeleine Mitchell - [Leith Hill Music Festival 2026](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/leith-hill-music-festival-2026/) - In celebration of Vaughan Williams, the festival’s original conductor, this first concert of 2026 presents his Five Mystical Songs and the much-loved Lark Ascending - [A Screenshot of Now](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/a-screenshot-of-now/) - Three leading British operatic singers bring to life this timely cycle by British-Italian composer guitarist Giacomo Susani and visionary lyricist/poet Chinwe D. John - [Mezzo Mixtape: Opera and song recital](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/mezzo-mixtape/) - A recital given by Rachel Roper (mezzo soprano) and Claire Habbershaw (piano) featuring songs by Ian Venables, Ivor Gurney, Rossini, Berg, Poulenc, Strauss, Bach and Weill - [An English Song Recital](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/an-english-song-recital/) - A recital featuring British tenor James Gilchrist and songs by Gustav and Imogen Holst, Britten, Dowland, Vaughan Williams, Madeleine Dring, Rebecca Clarke, Muriel Herbert and Dilys Elwyn-Edward - [Opera North: Peter Grimes](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/opera-north-peter-grimes/) - Britten’s most famous opera is utterly absorbing, exploring themes of paranoia and mob mentality. In Phyllida Lloyd’s award-winning production tours to four venues in February/March - [Gloucester Choral Society: Venables, Elgar and Finzi](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/gloucester-choral-society-march-2026/) - Part of the Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester Choral Society, led by Assistant Musical Director Jonathan Hope, present music by Elgar, Finzi and Ian Venables - [The 2026 Delius Prize](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-2026-delius-prize/) - The 2026 Delius Prize is an opportunity to hear talented finalists from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire as they play works by Delius and other composers - [Italian Song Album Preview Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/italian-song-album-preview-concert/) - Alongside Italian song, the programme showcases music by Britain’s “greatest living composer of art song” (Musical Opinion) Ian Venables - [Pax Musica](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/pax-musica/) - Choral music of love, hope and praise by Australian and British composers including premieres by Wendy Hiscocks, Stephen Adams and Melanie Spanswick - [Villiers Quartet: From Sunrise to Nightfall](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/villiers-quartet-from-sunrise-to-nightfall/) - The Villiers Quarter are joined by soprano Lucy Cox for a musical journey from earliest dawn to deepest night. The quartet, renowned as champions of British music, share their latest discovery in chamber music - [CSD Brass - Spring Concert - Island Heritage](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/csd-brass-island-heritage/) - CSD Brass Spring Concert features a musical depiction of the British Isles with works by John Ireland, Helen Perkin, David Lancaster, Rodney Newton, Dan Jenkins, Gordon Langford, Gavin Somerset - [Dudok Quartet & Pieter Wispelwey](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/dudok-quartet-pieter-wispelwey/) - The Dudok Quartet from Amsterdam and Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey perform a programme of music by Dowland, Mozart and Schubert - [Londinium: Hidden Light](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/hidden-light/) - Chamber choir Londinium performs a wonderful selection of Advent and Christmas music from across the centuries, including Renaissance motets and works by Joanna Marsh, Tarik O'Regan, Ben Rowarth and Simon Beattie plus irresistible carols by Howells and Joubert - [Music for Voices and Viols](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/music-for-voices-and-viols/) - Cambridge Renaissance Voices return to the glorious acoustic of Boxgrove Priory with Fretwork, acclaimed by the London Evening Standard as 'the finest viol consort on the planet' - [English Symphony Orchestra - Cheltenham Residency](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/eso-cheltenham-residency-may2026/) - Part of the English Symphony Orchestra's Cheltenham Residency, this concert features music by British composers Matthew Taylor and Edward Elgar - [The Festival of St Cecilia](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-festival-of-st-cecilia/) - The Festival of St Cecilia is an annual celebration of music in aid of Help Musicians at Westminster Abbey - [English Symphony Orchestra: David Matthews World Premiere](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/eso-david-matthews-world-premiere/) - A celebration of the spring equinox including a World Premiere by David Matthews - [Wrexham Symphony Orchestra: Remembrance](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/wso-remembrance/) - Step into an innocent world disrupted by the shadow of war as WSO explores memory, identity and national pride - [The Choir of Royal Holloway](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-choir-of-royal-holloway/) - The King, the Archbishop, a Spy, and the English Exiles: a programme of early music built around the trials and tribulations of English composers - [Ensemble 360](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/ensemble-360-march-2026/) - Ensemble 360 performs a concert featuring music by the British composer Phyllis Tate - [The Storm Whale - Family Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-storm-whale/) - This musical story follows the adventures of Noi, the son of a fisherman who finds a baby whale on the beach and takes it home to care for it. Based on the colourful children’s book by Benji Davies - [ESO Cheltenham Residency](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/henschel-quartet-february-2026-415/) - This concert forms part of the English Symphony Orchestra's Cheltenham Residency and features music by Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Philip Sawyers - [Henschel Quartet](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/henschel-quartet-february-2026/) - The Henschel Quartet from Germany returns for its 11th visit since first playing in Leamington in February 2000 with a concert featuring music by Haydn, Freda Swain and Mendelssohn - [Cross-Channel Currents](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/cross-channel-currents/) - An overview of English (and French song) written by women composers and which set poems written by women - [The Life and Loves of Christina Rossetti](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-life-and-loves-of-christina-rossetti/) - This concert paints a portrait of the English poet Christina Rossetti, on her 195th birthday, with settings of her poems by many well-loved composers of English Song, combined with readings from her letters - [Women Immigrants and Refugees in Britain](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/women-immigrants-and-refugees-in-britain/) - This concert pays tribute to the women who have come to this country as immigrants and refugees since 1945, telling their stories, illustrated by songs that set poems written by women - [Ethel Smyth and the Suffragettes](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/ethel-smyth-and-the-suffragettes/) - This concert features extracts from Ethel Smyth's Memoirs and songs by her and by other composers to explore the part she played in the Suffragette movement and her numerous same-sex relationships - [Unexpected Allies](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/unexpected-allies/) - A concert by Worthing Symphony Orchestra featuring music by Ron Goodwin, John Williams, George Lloyd and Eric Coates - [The Garden of Earthly Delights](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-garden-of-earthly-delights/) - Chamber choir Londinium launches its 20th anniversary season with a seductive programme inspired by Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' - [Gildas Quartet](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/gildas-quartet/) - Praised for their energy, verve, and refreshing approach, the Gildas Quartet perform music by Alwyn, Beethoven and Jessie Montgomery at this November concert - [The 20th Malcolm Arnold Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-20th-malcolm-arnold-festival/) - ’20 for 20’ is the theme celebrating the 20th Festival with performances of all 20 of the composer’s concertos - [Stile Antico - The Golden Renaissance](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/stile-antico-the-golden-renaissance/) - In this attractive programme, Stile Antico select one piece from each of their 16 award-winning albums to create a thrilling journey through the music of the Renaissance. - [Sense & Musicality](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/sense-musicality/) - In celebration of Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary, while away an evening in the drawing room exploring the author’s relationship with music, emotion, and romance - [A Northern Requiem](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/a-northern-requiem/) - A Northern Requiem blends together the Latin Requiem Mass with contemporary poetry and song in a tribute to the men and women of coal. - [Frederic Cliffe: Bradford's Forgotten Composer](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/frederic-cliffe-bradfords-forgotten-composer/) - This unique musical event features Frederic Cliffe's songs being performed for the first time in over 100 years at the Bradford church where he began his career - [Piatti Quartet & Simon Callaghan](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/piatti-quartet-and-simon-callaghan/) - Simon Callaghan and the Piatti Quartet come together in a special programme comprising music by Mozart, Mendelssohn and the world premiere an arrangement of Vaughan Williams’ folk-song studies - [Sacconi Quartet & David Campbell](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/sacconi-quartet-and-david-campbell/) - The Sacconi Quartet is joined by one of the UK’s finest clarinettists, David Campbell, to present an eclectic programme including a world premiere - [Wensleydale Concert Series](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/wensleydale-concert-series-2025/) - British music champion Mark Bebbington returns to the Wensleydale Concert Series to perform piano music by William Alwyn, Doreen Carwithen, Arthur Bliss and John Ireland - [Rubbra Piano Concerto: Mark Bebbington & the RPO](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/rubbra-piano-concerto-mark-bebbington/) - Northampton-born composer Edmund Rubbra was one of the most admired names in post-war British music, but today his radiant Piano Concerto is a real rarity - [On Wenlock Edge: Marking the 70th birthday of Ian Venables](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/on-wenlock-edge/) - Marking the 70th birthday of composer Ian Venables, this concert brings together a stellar line-up for an evening of richly expressive English song - [Night of Nature](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/night-of-nature-2025/) - Night of Nature is a one night only celebration where nature’s raw beauty is brought to life through a stunning combination of cinematic visuals and live performance - [K-Music Festival 2025](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/k-music-festival-2025/) - The world premiere of a new concerto by composer Dong-hoon Shin, written for pianist Seong-Jin Cho and performed with the London Symphony Orchestra - [Bliss Anniversary Celebration](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/bliss-anniversary-celebration/) - A two day event at Pembroke College, Cambridge, featuring Bliss chamber music from the Pixels Ensemble, a talk by Dr Lewis Foreman and a celebratory dinner - [Arthur Bliss: A Man of Two Continents](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/arthur-bliss-a-man-of-two-continents/) - A recital by baritone Matt Secombe featuring songs by Bliss, Vaughan Williams and Rebecca Clarke together with Amy Beach and Charles Ives - [Jane Eyre](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/grimeborn-opera-jane-eyre/) - Arcola Theatre and Green Opera present the fully staged premiere of John Joubert’s Jane Eyre, his final opera — a work of stirring beauty, resilience, and rebellion - [Finding Freedom](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/finding-freedom/) - Kathleen Ferrier award-winner Matthew McKinney performs a deeply moving recital with his duo partner Roelof Temmingh, revolving around Robert Schumann's iconic song cycle Dichterliebe - [The Song of Songs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-song-of-songs/) - The candlelit interior of Drewsteignton Church creates a magical setting for vocal music exploring love poetry from The Song of Songs - [A Million Nightingales](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/a-million-nightingales/) - The voices of Corvus Consort take to the skies for a bird's eye view of choral music. Directed by Freddie Crowley, Corvus presents musical depictions of nightingales, skylarks, swallows and ravens. - [Stoke on Trent Centenary Celebration concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/stoke-on-trent-centenary-celebration-concert/) - A celebration concert featuring Centenary Laureate Nick Degg with "I come from a town" and music by Vaughan Williams, Walton, Elgar and Havergal Brian - [Salomon Orchestra plays English Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/salomon-orchestra-plays-english-music/) - The Salomon Orchestra 2024/2025 season continues with an all English programme - [An Evening of Epic Film & TV Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/an-evening-of-epic-film-tv-music/) - An unforgettable evening of film and TV music performed by two international, classically trained concert soloists and featuring brand new, never-before-heard arrangements by Stuart Bramwell - [A Tapestry of Music and Poetry](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/a-tapestry-of-music-and-poetry/) - A Sunday afternoon concert at the London Sketch Club featuring original music by John Whittaker alongside poetry readings by Anthony Pinching. - [High Barnet Chamber Music Festival: Hugo Herman-Wilson & Richard Gowers](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/high-barnet-chamber-music-festival-hugo-herman-wilson-and-richard-gowers/) - Baritone Hugo Herman-Wilson and pianist Richard Gowers present a recital of 20th century songs in English - [Eight Songs for a Mad King](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/eight-songs-for-a-mad-king/) - Mad Song, described in the Observer as "expert young players", present a programme including George Benjamin's Three Miniatures for Solo Violin and a world premiere by David Palmer - [Songs for Our Times](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/songs-for-our-times/) - The world premiere of Metropolis, six songs by British composer Bernard Hughes and lyricist Chinwe D John, expressing the hopes and challenges of our rapidly changing world - [Timeless Classics and New Beginnings](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/timeless-classics-and-new-beginnings/) - The programme, performed by the clarinet and piano duo Dialogue of Minds, starts with the Australian Margaret Sutherland's lyrical Clarinet Sonata - [From Shadows to Light: Musical Journeys in Conflict & Peace](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/from-shadows-to-light-musical-journeys/) - Hertfordshire Festival of Music Presents an inspiring week of music, reflection, and community to mark 80 years since the end of World War II - [Summer Music in City Churches](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/summer-music-in-city-churches/) - Summer Music in City Churches returns for its seventh year to the Square Mile this June. This year’s theme is Eternal Light - [Sing her Tune](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/sing-her-tune/) - All-female choir Corra Sound explore themes of adventure, resilience, hope and strength, featuring stunning compositions from British, American, Canadian and Scandanavian composers - [BBC Proms 2025](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/bbc-proms-2025/) - BBC Proms 2025 features the first overnight Prom in almost half a century as part of an eight-week celebration of music - [Edward Gregson 80th Birthday Celebration](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/edward-gregson-80th-birthday-celebration/) - BMS members are invited to share in a musical celebration of the creative life and music of Edward Gregson as he celebrates this milestone birthday in July - [London Chamber Ensemble Quartet - Music in Country Churches Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/london-chamber-ensemble-quartet/) - As part of the Music in Country Churches Festival, the London Chamber Ensemble Quartet will perform a concert featuring music by Haydn, Ravel and Wood - [Unto the Hills: a choral journey to the mountains](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/unto-the-hills/) - Chamber choir Londinium explores the majesty of mountains, from the Welsh mountains to the Alps and Mount Vesuvius, savouring both the view and the rich contemplation they inspire - [Clothed in dreams: the reimagining of stories once told…](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/clothed-in-dreams/) - Join this event for a reawakening, where fairytales and folklore from times gone by, will come to life through song - [Madeleine Mitchell & Nigel Clayton](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/madeleine-mitchell-nigel-clayton/) - Violinist Madeleine Mitchell is joined by pianist Nigel Clayton to performs pieces written for her including music by Michael Nyman and Michael Berkeley - [Singing Break with Joanna Forbes L'Estrange](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/singing-break-auckland-palace/) - An inspirational, uplifting weekend of singing in the company of composer Joanna Forbes L'Estrange in the historic setting of Auckland Palace, Co. Durham - [Madeleine Mitchell & Friends](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/madeleine-mitchell-and-friends/) - Violinist Madeleine Mitchell and friends play four salon pieces by Dyson Revery, Arabesque, Melody, Internezzo plus Mel Bonis and Brahms Op.8 piano trios - [Gloucester Choral Society: Songs of Farewell](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/songs-of-farewell/) - Gloucester Choral Society present Parry’s ‘Songs of Farewell’, Bach motets, Rheinberger mass in E Flat and a new commission by Russell Hepplewhite - [A Lenten Meditation](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/a-lenten-meditation/) - An opportunity to hear Polyphony – named recently by Classic FM as one of the greatest choirs in the world – in an eclectic programme of music for Holy Week - [Hellens Music 2025](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/hellens-music-2025/) - A richly inspiring week with internationally renowned musicians performing a series of intimate concerts and giving masterclasses to talented young performers - [Piano Concerto with Peter Donohoe* and the RPO](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/piano-concerto-with-mark-bebbington-and-the-rpo/) - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra present a programme of British music, including a rare performance of the piano concerto by Sir Arthur Bliss... - [Elgar Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/elgar-festival-2025/) - The annual celebration of Elgar and British composers in Worcester and Malvern. Symphonic and ensemble concerts are given by the English Symphony Orchestra - [Londinium: De Profundis](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/londinium-de-profundis/) - A choral celebration of the resilience of the human spirit, including music by Alec Roth and Cecilia McDowall, William Byrd, John Joubert, Ben Parry and Edward Elgar - [Afternoon Recital at Gloucester Cathedral](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/afternoon-recital-gloucester-cathedral/) - Join Director of Music Adrian Partington and violinist Leora Cohen for a special afternoon concert in the Chapter House of Gloucester Cathedral . - [Three Choirs Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/three-choirs-festival-3/) - The Three Choirs Festival 2025 will be staged in Hereford and will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with a revival of his oratorio The Atonement - [International Women's Day Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/international-womens-day-concert-2025/) - Violinist Madeleine Mitchell teams up with international pianist Stephen de Pledge to present a delightful hour of music by women for violin and piano and the stories behind them - [The Dream of Gerontius](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-dream-of-gerontius/) - The City of London Choir and Choir of King’s College, Cambridge join forces for Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius - [The CSSO 'Stoke 100' Celebration Prom](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/ccso-stoke100-celebration-prom/) - The City of Stoke-on-Trent Symphony Orchestra launches as the city's first ever resident professional orchestra, celebrating the Stoke-on-Trent Centenary - [Spring Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/spring-concert/) - A concert featuring the wartime symphony no.5 in D by Vaughan Williams and the 'Spitfire Prelude and Fugue' by Walton - [The English Music Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/english-music-festival-2025/) - The English Music Festival features a premiere performance of Symphony no.2 by Stanley Bate, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Heroic Elegy and Triumphal Epilogue and the Cello Concerto by Sir Arthur Bliss - [Best of British](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/best-of-british/) - A two-day celebration of British music performed by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire pianists and internationally-renowned artists - [Love Lives Beyond the Tomb](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/love-lives-beyond-the-tomb/) - A recital celebrating the lyrical beauty of British art song including the world premiere of a song by Ian Venables - [Talland String Quartet](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/talland-string-quartet/) - The award-winning Talland String Quartet show-off the many facets of the string quartet in its first spring concert of 2025 - [The Bach Choir: Belshazzar's Feast](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-bach-choir-belshazzars-feast/) - The Bach Choir and the Philharmonia Orchestra join forces for an evening of British music that tells gripping stories and describes stunning surroundings - [Personal Passions](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/personal-passions/) - 4 pianists. 4 passions. A unique evening of piano music, GenAI art, poetry and visual projection... - [Symphonic Journeys](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/symphonic-journeys/) - Following the AGM of the BMS, this concert by Ealing Symphony Orchestra will feature music by Ruth Gipps, Rachmaninov and Bartok. - [Elements](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/elements/) - Sonare's Elements programme explores how great composers use building blocks of melody, harmony and rhythm to construct their most moving, thrilling works... - [A Season to Sing](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/a-season-to-sing/) - A Season to Sing is Joanna Forbes L'Estrange's choral re-imagining of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons to mark its 300th anniversary in 2025... - [Londinium: On the Wing](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/londinium-on-the-wing/) - In this enchanting programme, Londinium takes to the air to explore the domain of birds and other flying creatures... - [Electrifying Ealing](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/electrifying-ealing/) - This concert by Ealing Symphony Orchestra will feature music by Bernstein, Coleridge-Taylor and Bliss... - [Gorton Philharmonic Winter Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/gorton-philharmonic-winter-concert/) - This Winter Concert will consist of works inspired by folk music and the countryside including a rare concert performance of the E J Moeran G minor Symphony.... - [Sir Arthur Bliss Celebration](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/sir-arthur-bliss-celebration/) - A day of celebration to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of one of this country’s leading composers... - [Free lunchtime concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/free-lunchtime-concert/) - This concert will feature prize-winners from the 2024 Delius Prize and music by Delius and Strauss... - [London Schools Symphony Orchestra](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/london-schools-symphony-orchestra/) - A concert at the Barbican featuring the orchestration of Ian Venables' 'Venetian Songs'... - [English Music for Viola and Piano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/english-music-for-viola-and-piano/) - A celebration of music for viola and piano by leading English composers of the 20th century... - [From Shadows to Light](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/from-shadows-to-light-3/) - A presentation of Grace Williams' violin sonata and her relationship with Egon Wellesz through his Sonata for solo violin no.2 and a talk by Dr Gintare Stankeviciute... - [Rain, Steam and Speed](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/rain-steam-and-speed/) - West London Sinfonia presents music by Vaughan Williams and Cecilia McDowall... - [Gustav Holst 150th anniversary celebration](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/gustav-holst-150-anniversary-celebration/) - An exploration of Holst's life and music through his songs and readings from his letters and lecture notes... - [Crowthorne Symphony Orchestra Autumn Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/crowthorne-symphony-orchestra-autumn-concert/) - This autumn concert by the Crowthorne Symphony Orchestra will feature music by British composers including Bliss, Arnold and Gibbs... - [Gustav Holst: An Archival Legacy](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/gustav-holst-an-archival-legacy/) - Find out about the archival sources relating to Gustav Holst and discover what they can reveal about the composer and his music... - [Lute Music from the Jacobean Age: Dowland and his Contemporaries](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/lute-music-from-the-jacobean-age/) - In this afternoon recital, lutenist Lynda Sayce explores the musical world of the Jacobean court revealed in manuscripts of lute pieces compiled by or for women of the time... - [Voice and Verse Recital - Journeying](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/voice-verse-recital-journeying/) - Enjoy the beautiful sound world of the Abbey and its artists as the Abbey's Lay Vicars perform a recital of English Song featuring texts by poets buried or memorialised in Poets' Corner... - [Voice and Verse Recital - Remembrance](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/voice-verse-recital-remembrance/) - Enjoy the beautiful sound world of the Abbey and its artists as the Abbey's Lay Vicars perform a recital of English Song featuring texts by poets buried or memorialised in Poets' Corner... - [Londinium: In the Stillness](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/londinium-in-the-stillness/) - Londinium and Andrew Griffiths perform carols by Howells, Pearsall and Warlock with contemporary works by Sally Beamish, Roderick Williams and others... - [From shadows to light/living on the margins](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/from-shadows-to-light-2/) - Music by composers who were once outsiders and those who helped them... - [LSO x Cassie Kinoshi’s seed.](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/lso-cassie-kinoshis-seed/) - British composer, arranger, saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi and her ensemble seed. are set to collaborate with the London Symphony Orchestra as part of this year’s London Jazz Festival... - [Ninian's Gift](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/ninians-gift/) - A tribute to Edinburgh composer Tom Cunningham's collaboration with Alexander McCall Smith; includes the complete "Ninian's Gift"... - [Ninian's Gift](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/ninians-gift/) - A tribute to Edinburgh composer Tom Cunningham's collaboration with Alexander McCall Smith; includes the complete "Ninian's Gift"... - [Autumn Concert - Passing the Torch](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/autumn-concert-passing-the-torch/) - Join the Bristol Bach Choir for a concert celebrating the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams (on his birthday), Stanford's Centenary, Parry, Tallis & Howell... - [Malcolm Arnold Festival: free-to-stream online day](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/malcolm-arnold-festival-free-online-day/) - Presented live by Festival president Paul Harris with pre-recorded performances, talks and interviews, and a special focus on the composer's songs... - [From Shadows to Light: CD presentation and discussion](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/from-shadows-to-light/) - A CD presentation of composers who were either marginalised themselves in some way or who helped others who were... - [Rune - Decameron Musicale](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/rune-decameron-musicale/) - This programme is a mosaic of musical stories from early modern Europe... - [Ensemble 360](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/ensemble-360/) - Ensemble 360 present a sumptuous afternoon of folk-inflected chamber music for strings and clarinet, which combines well-known works with some new discoveries.... - [Giddy Goat - Family Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/giddy-goat-family-concert/) - This musical story follows the trials and tribulations of Giddy, a young mountain goat who is scared of heights... - [Harriet Adie (harp)](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/harriet-adie-harp/) - Escape the Festive madness for an hour of music in tranquil surroundings and join critically-acclaimed harpist Harriet Adie for a programme of carols from her own collection... - [Imogen Holst’s Violin Concerto](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/imogen-holsts-violin-concerto/) - Violinist and composer, Midori Komachi, is reviving a neglected British Violin Concerto... - [19th International Malcolm Arnold Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/19th-international-malcolm-arnold-festival/) - The composer’s hometown, Northampton, will host a day of live music-making at three local venues... - [The Bach Choir: War Requiem](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-bach-choir-war-requiem/) - The scars of war never heal. Few knew this better than Britten, a pacifist who used the poetry of Wilfred Owen to depict the horrors of war in his War Requiem... - [Choir of Clare College, Cambridge - Bethlehem Star](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/bethlehem-star/) - Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge return to Leamington Music with Bethlehem Star, a sumptuous festive programme of carols and motets... - [In Harmony: Choral music for a fragile world](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/in-harmony/) - Londinium opens its 2024-25 season with a thought-provoking programme exploring our relationships with our planet and with each other... - [The Gesualdo Six - Queen of Hearts](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-gesualdo-six/) - A selection of Motets and Chansons focusing on European Queens: Anne of Brittany, Margaret of Austria, Anne Boleyn, and Mary Tudor... - [Mark Bebbington: The 20th Century Romantic British Piano Concerto](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/romantic-british-piano-concerto/) - A lecture-recital by Mark Bebbington based primarily on works by Arthur Bliss, John Ireland, Frederick Delius and Doreen Carwithen... - [The Romantic English](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-romantic-english/) - Polyphony’s inspirational conductor Stephen Layton has chosen a programme of the best of English choral music... - [English Piano Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/english-piano-music/) - Join Jonathan Delbridge as he shares a vibrant programme of piano music to include pieces by Purcell, Pinto and Parry... - [Come & Sing Stanford Evensong with Orchestra](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/come-sing-stanford-evensong/) - An unmissable opportunity to join in with singing the beautiful service of Choral Evensong in the equally beautiful surroundings of Coventry Cathedral... - [Sam Rudd-Jones Album Launch: Three Sonatas](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/sam-rudd-jones-album-launch/) - Composer Sam Rudd-Jones launches his new album of chamber music for Prima Facie Records... - [Cambridge Alumni Festival Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/cambridge-alumni-festival-concert/) - The programme will include the first public performance of Adam Pounds' 3rd symphony dedicated to John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London... - [A Celebration of Malcolm Arnold and Matthew Taylor](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/celebration-arnold-taylor/) - A concert to celebrate Matthew Taylor’s 60th birthday and one of his most profound influences, Sir Malcolm Arnold. - [The Artistry of Genius](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-artistry-of-genius-2/) - New! Livestream tickets are available worldwide which include access to the livestream up to 48 hours following the live performance. Select virtual live stream tickets - [Music at an Exhibition](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/music-at-an-exhibition/) - Pianist Pamela Chilvers will perform her new, original compositions matched to 16 traditional oil paintings by artist Alastair Dunstan - [Spitalfields Music Festival: Summer Serenade](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/spitalfields-music-festival/) - Join the Spitalfields Music Festival for a serenade of stunning music for strings... - [Nottingham Chamber Music Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/nottingham-chamber-music-festival/) - The Villiers Quartet & soprano Emma Walshe perform The Spirit of Love song cycle by British composer Ailsa Dixon - [Londinium: Fairest Isle](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/fairest-isle/) - Londinium visits Slovenia, presenting two concerts of outstanding music by British composers... - [The Elgar Festival - ‘The Origins of Inspiration’](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-elgar-festival-the-origins-of-inspiration/) - Concerts and events Set in and around Elgar's home city of Worcester. - [Phantasie - English music for piano trio](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/conducting-stanford-140/) - Ensemble Kopernikus perform works by Rebecca Clarke, the little-known Kentish composer Percy Hilder Miles (Professor at the Royal Academy of Music and teacher of Rebecca Clarke) and John Ireland... - [Vulva Voce](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/vulva-voce/) - Virtuosic string quartet Vulva Voce present the music and stories of women across the centuries, from Renaissance madrigals to African-American Romanticism and contemporary classical... - [Conducting Stanford with David Hill](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/conducting-stanford/) - This free online workshop, led by distinguished conductor and Stanford expert Dr David Hill FRSCM, will offer practical advice on how best to conduct some of Stanford’s best-known pieces - [Santtu conducts Elgar's Enigma Variations](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-artistry-of-genius-674/) - The Philharmonia's 2023/24 season comes to a close with Elgar's irresistible paen to friendship. - [The Artistry of Genius](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-artistry-of-genius/) - The 2024 Summer Chorus, a collaboration between the Oratorio Society of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota School of Music, will present music by Coleridge-Taylor... - [Londinium: Arise, My Love](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-english-romantics-at-malmesbury-257/) - Londinium presents a thrillingly eclectic spring programme celebrating the power and joys of love, both sacred and secular. - [The English Romantics at Malmesbury](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-english-romantics-at-malmesbury/) - Trio Paradis play a coffee concert featuring music by Edward Elgar, Alice Verne-Bredt, Frank Bridge, Adela Maddison, Paul Carr & Ernest Austin. - [The English Romantics at Chippenham](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-english-romantics-at-chippenham/) - Trio Paradis play a coffeeConcert featuring music by Edward Elgar, Alice Verne-Bredt, Frank Bridge, Adela Maddison, Paul Carr & Ernest Austin. - [The English Romantics at Warminster](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-english-romantics-at-warminster/) - Trio Paradis play a lunchtime Concert featuring music by Edward Elgar, Alice Verne-Bredt, Frank Bridge, Adela Maddison, Paul Carr & Ernest Austi. - [The English Romantics at Wells](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/wells/) - Trio Paradis play a Café Concert featuring music by Verne-Bredt: Phantasie Trio and Ernest Austin Trio no4, along with short pieces by Elgar, Brudge, Maddison and Paul Carr. - [The English Romantics at Midsomer Norton](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-english-romantics-at-midsomer-norton/) - Trio Paradis play a lunchtime Concert featuring music by Edward Elgar, Alice Verne-Bredt, Frank Bridge, Adela Maddison, Paul Carr & Ernest Austi. - [The English Romantics at Frome](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-english-romantics-at-frome/) - Trio Paradis play a Café Concert featuring music by Edward Elgar, Alice Verne-Bredt, Frank Bridge, Adela Maddison, Paul Carr & Ernest Austi. - [The English Romantics at Bradford on Avon](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-english-romantics-at-bradford-on-avon/) - Trio Paradis play a Café Concert featuring music by Edward Elgar, Alice Verne-Bredt, Frank Bridge, Adela Maddison, Paul Carr & Ernest Austi. - [Fundraising London Concert for English Music Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/fundraising-london-concert-for-english-music-festival/) - Concerts and talks given by acclaimed musicians to raise funds to help ensure the continuation of the English Music Festival - [The South Country - A Celebration of Sussex](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-south-country-a-celebration-of-sussex/) - The third concert of "A Feast of English Song", the summer season of the 2024 London Song Festival. - [Comedy Song Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/comedy-song-concert/) - The opening concert of "A Feast of English Song", the 2024 London Song Festival summer season, - [A celebration of the centenary of Madeleine Dring](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/a-celebration-of-the-centenary-of-madeleine-dring/) - The second concert of "A Feast of English Song", the summer season of the 2024 London Song Festival. - [The Sea and Ships](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-sea-and-ships/) - The Sea and Ships: A celebration of the centenary of the first Shipping Forecast broadcast on British radio. - [Prize-Winner's Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/prize-winners-concert/) - The final concert of "A Feast of English Song", the summer season of the 2024 London Song Festival. - [Songs of Mourning, Songs of Faith and Joy](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/songs-of-mourning-songs-of-faith-and-joy/) - James Gilchrist joins guitarist Mark Eden, winner of the Julian Bream prize, for a recital of English song spanning 4 centuries. - [Three Choirs Festival 2024: Worcester](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/three-choirs-festival-2024-worcester/) - One of the principal themes of this year’s festival is the natural world. - [RPO play Finzi's Overture to 'Love's Labours Lost'](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/rpo-play-finzis-overture-to-loves-labours-lost/) - Summer Music in City Churches Festival featuring Finzi's Overture to Love's Labour's Lost - [Then Sing We All! - Family Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/then-sing-we-all-family-concert/) - Rousing and uplifting musical numbers for all the family - [Adam Heron - piano recital](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/adam-heron-piano-recital/) - Former BBC Young Musician category finalist Adam Heron performs the elusive Second Sonata by Hubert Parry. - [Adam Heron - piano recital](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/adam-heron-piano-recital-328/) - Adam Heron performs the captivating Piano Sonata in A-major by Hubert Parry. - [Organ recital with Dr Anthony Gritten](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/organ-recital-with-dr-anthony-gritten/) - An illustrated recital of organ music spanning Stanford’s entire compositional life. - [Stanford Singing Break at Queens' College Cambridge](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/stanford-singing-break-at-queens-college-cambridge/) - Sing some of Stanford’s best known (and lesser known) choral works in glorious Cambridge surroundings. - [noisenight92](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/noisenight92/) - Mela Guitar Quartet perform their own virtuosic arrangements of music by Holst. - [Hannah Roper (violin) and Adrian Partington (piano)](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/hannah-roper-violin-and-adrian-partington-piano/) - A lovely programme of English violin and piano music by Hannah Roper and Adrian Partington. - [The Lord is My Shepherd](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-lord-is-my-shepherd/) - A recital of sacred music by Britain's most distinguished 20th century composers: Britten, Vaughan Williams Quilter and Howells. - [Songs of Peace](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/songs-of-peace/) - A concert of music by British composers on themes of peace, service and sacrifice. - [Concert to celebrate Anthony Gilbert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/concert-to-celebrate-anthony-gilbert/) - A celebration of the life and work of the life and achievements of the distinguished composer, Anthony Gilbert - [British Music for Two Pianos](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/british-music-for-two-pianos/) - British music for two pianos culminating in the world premiere of Ben Costello's arrangement of Constant Lambert's ballet score 'Horoscope'. - [These Things Shall Be: Ailsa Dixon](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/these-things-shall-be-ailsa-dixon/) - A Durham celebration of the music of Alisa Dixon featuring the most wide-ranging programme of her works in a single concert. - [Sunday Afternoon Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/sunday-afternoon-concert/) - Informal Sunday afternoon performance of works by composers of the Frankfurt group. - [Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/wimbledon-symphony-orchestra-spring-concert/) - Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra's Spring concert with Jennifer Pike as soloist in Ruth Gipps' Violin Concerto. - [Quintessential Quintets](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/quintessential-quintets/) - Under-performed early 20th century chamber works by British composers performed by Pianist, Mark Bebbington together with principals from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. - [English Music Festival 2024](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/english-music-festival-2024/) - The English Music Festival returns to Dorchester Abbey celebrating anniversaries of two of Britain’s greatest composers. - [The Dionysus Ensemble in Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-dionysus-ensemble-in-concert/) - A free chamber music concert for String Quartet, Harp & Clarinet featuring the world premiere of 'Windrush Reflections' by Ayanna Witter-Johnson. - [Bristol Chamber Orchestra Spring Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/bristol-chamber-orchestra-spring-concert/) - Bristol Chamber Orchestra concert including music by Gerald Finzi and John Ireland - [My Heart Makes Songs On Lonely Roads](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/my-heart-makes-songs-on-lonely-roads/) - A recital by Claire Habbershaw and Rachel Roper taking inspiration from Ian Venables's cycle The Pine Boughs Past Music and performed alongside music by Ivor Gurney, Howells, Venables, Finzi, Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Stanford. - [Piano recital by Rebeca Omordia](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/piano-recital-by-rebeca-omordia/) - Darlington Piano Society presents a recital by Rebeca Amordia featuring John Ireland's "Decorations" and piano sonata. - [Heart's Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/celebrating-women-musicians-past-and-present-873/) - The Stanford and Holst anniversaries are marked in this programme alongside other music by British composers. - [Celebrating Women Musicians, past and present](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/celebrating-women-musicians-past-and-present/) - A free study day celebrating women musicians to mark International Women's Day 2024. - [Violin Conversations](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/violin-conversations/) - A Wiltshire recital by violinist Madeleine Mitchell with a range of British music for violin. - [Celebrating Peter de Moncey-Conegliano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/celebrating-peter-de-moncey-conegliano/) - An afternoon with composer Peter de Moncey-Conegliano as he reflects on his life in music at 75! - [Garden of Fire](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/garden-of-fire/) - A rare performance of Ruth Gipp's beautiful orchestral fantasy 'Cringlemire Garden' performed by the London Firebird Orchestra. - [Songs of Travel](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/songs-of-travel/) - A recital featuring music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ivor Gurney, Herbert Howells, Roger Quilter, John Ireland - [Copy of Highgate International Chamber Music Festival 2023, Concert 7](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/highgate-international-chamber-music-festival-2023-concert-7-458/) - Five Rings for String Quartet (2012) by Natalie Klouda forms part of a concert as part of the 2023 Highgate International Chamber Music Festival - [Highgate International Chamber Music Festival 2023, Concert 2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/highgate-international-chamber-music-festival-2023-concert-2/) - Music by Vaughan Williams form part of a concert as part of the 2023 Highgate International Chamber Music Festival - [British music in Kansas](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/british-music-at-kansas-state-university/) - Renowned British violinist Madeleine Mitchell returns to K-State on Oct. 5 for a recital featuring several works written for her by British composers. - [An afternoon of Bliss](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/an-afternoon-of-bliss/) - Lecture recital by Professor Philip Wilby, recital by Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band and Arthur Bliss Society AGM. - [Whiddon Autumn Festival 2023](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/whiddon-autumn-festival-2023/) - Join us for one of Devon’s freshest and most exciting cultural events. A vibrant programme of 13 events packed into five days of music-making across five villages... - [Corvedale Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/corvedale-festival-2/) - A diverse event in south Shropshire featuring composer including Gurney, Britten and Paul Henley. - [The 2023 Malcolm Arnold Festival - Online](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-2023-malcolm-arnold-festival-online/) - A day of live-streamed concerts, talks and insights into the multi-faceted composer. - [The 2023 Malcolm Arnold Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-2023-malcolm-arnold-festival/) - The annual celebration honouring British composer Sir Malcolm Arnold. - [Song Recital](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/song-recital/) - A lunchtime concert at Purley Classics featuring Peter Edge (baritone) and John Whittaker (piano). - [Summer Music Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/summer-music-festival/) - A lunchtime recital by Michael Broadway (Pianola) featuring composers named in the Book of Remembrance in the Musicians' Chapel in this the National Musicians' Church. - [Nottingham Chamber Music Festival 2023](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/nottingham-chamber-music-festival-2023/) - British music Music by Rawsthorne, Judith Weir, Ethel Smyth and Madeleine Dring feature in this year's festival. - [Forbidden Love](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/forbidden-love/) - The premiere of Granville Bantock's song-cycle The Sphinx in a setting of Oscar Wilde's poem as part of the London Song Festival 'Summer Love' season. - [High Barnet Chamber Music Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/high-barnet-chamber-music-festival-2/) - The programme for this year’s High Barnet Chamber Music Festival has been unveiled which includes Grace Williams’ Sea Sketches. - [London to Edinburgh](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/london-to-edinburgh/) - Music by Kenneth Leighton, Judith Weir, Robert Pearsall, Charles Wood, James MacMillan, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Byrd an Thomas Weelkes - [Serenade to Music & Sea Drift](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/serenade-to-music-sea-drift/) - Music by Vaughan Williams, Delius, Britten and Bingham. - [Oxford Studio Orchestra](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/oxford-studio-orchestra/) - Music by Paul Harris, Frank Bridge, Malcolm Arnold, Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams - [Guildhall School Opera Double Bill](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/guildhall-school-opera-double-bill/) - A double bill of Chamber Operas by Holst & Judith Weir - [Stainer's Crucixifion](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/stainers-crucixifion/) - Stainer's Crucixifion: RSCM Annual Lecture & Comes & Sing Workshop - [Hertfordshire Festival of Music 2023](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/hertfordshire-festival-of-music-2023/) - The theme of the 2023 Hertfordshire Festival of Music is 'The Art of Music & The Music of Art'. This year's Principal Artist is clarinetist, Emma Johnson. - [Spring Song and Strings](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/spring-song-and-strings/) - English Symphony Orchestra perform Holst's toe-tapping St Paul's Suite. - [Delicious Fire](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/delicious-fire/) - Londinium celebrates the release of 'Every Living Creature' with the music of Kenneth Leighton. - [I was Glad](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/i-was-glad/) - A Chamber Choir Concert given by Voces Seraphorum including works by Dyson, Finzi, Gail Randall and Stanford. - [noisenight26: solem quartet + alice zawadzki](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/noisenight26-solem-quartet-alice-zawadzki/) - Solem Quartet bring their latest collaboration with Alice Zawadzki to Dalston. - [Adrian Williams: The Innocent Fields](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/adrian-williams-the-innocent-fields/) - The World premiere of 'The Innocent Fields' by Adrian Williams - [Spring Classics](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/spring-classics/) - The world premiere of Edward Longstaff's 'Just one thing' - [WPO 50th Anniversary Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/wpo-50th-anniversary-concert/) - Ruth Gipps, Tippett and Mozart - 50th Anniversary Concert 2023 of Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra - [Piano recital by Anthony Green](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/piano-recital-by-anthony-green/) - Composers' birthday years performed by Anthony Green - [Music by Women Composers](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/music-by-women-composers/) - Music by a number of British women composers, including Eliza Turner, Elizabeth Maconchy, Madeleine Dring and Ailsa Dixon. - [Handel's Solomon](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/handels-solomon/) - A rare semi-staged performance of Handel’s great oratorio – probably the first professional performance in Bath since the eighteenth century. - [Elgar Festival 2023](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/elgar-festival-2023/) - English Symphony Orchestra perform the cream of English music. - [Three Choirs Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/three-choirs-festival-2/) - Gloucester will host the 2023 Three Choirs Festival - [The Sixteenth English Music Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-sixteenth-english-music-festival/) - The annual Festival championing rarely performed British music. - [Flowers of Spring - Politics, Power & Poverty](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/flowers-of-spring-politics-power-poverty/) - A online concert of songs by composer Eliza Flower (1803-1846). - [Ronald Corp: Symphony No.4](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/ronald-corp-symphony-no-4/) - The premiere of Ronald Corp's Symphony No.4 - [Ronald Corp: Symphony No.2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/ronald-corp-symphony-no-2/) - Symphony No.2 by Ronald Corp - [Ronald Corp: Hail and Farewell](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/ronald-corp-hail-and-farewell/) - The song cycle 'Hail and Farewell' by Ronald Corp performed as part of the Three Choirs Festival - [Regards from Rochester PREMIERE](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/regards-from-rochester-premiere/) - The premiere of 'Regards from Rochester' by Thomas Hewitt Jones for choir and chamber orchestra. - [Angel Orchestra Autumn Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/angel-orchestra-autumn-concert/) - Including he first performance since 1929 of Imogen Holst's Overture 'Persephone' when it was played in a Royal College of Music concert. - [Barnes Music Festival 2023](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/barnes-music-festival-2023/) - This year’s theme is The Musical Environment, and a packed programme of 37 events over two weeks at nine venues celebrates Barnes as an area of wildlife and beauty, and the environment in which composers and musicians thrive. - [Scenes from the Epic of Gilgamesh](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/scenes-from-the-epic-of-gilgamesh-world-premiere/) - The world premiere or Robert Saxton's 'Scenes from the Epic of Gilgamesh' will be performed alongside European Classics. - [The Company of Heaven](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-company-of-heaven/) - Britten's rarely heard cantata "The Company of Heaven", alongside music by Finzi, Cecilia McDowall and Susan Spain-Dunk. - [First public performance of Sullivan's Symphony in Germany](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/first-public-performance-of-sullivans-symphony-in-germany/) - The first public performance of Sullivan's Symphony in Germany form part of this programme with the Philharmonisches Orchester Vorpommern. - [Crux Fidelis: music for Passiontide](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/crux-fidelis-music-for-passiontide/) - Londinium offers a stunning selection of music for Passiontide. - [Moeran in Bangkok](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/moeran-in-bangkok/) - EJ Moeran's String Quartet No 2 in Eb is performed by the Libere Quartet. - [Delius's Hassan: The Golden Road to Samarkand](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/deliuss-hassan-the-golden-road-to-samarkand-906/) - A concert given by the Britten Sinfonia with narrator by Zeb Soanes and Egyptian-Australian oud virtuoso, Joseph Tawadros. - [Delius's Hassan: The Golden Road to Samarkand](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/deliuss-hassan-the-golden-road-to-samarkand/) - A concert given by the Britten Sinfonia with narrator by Zeb Soanes and Egyptian-Australian oud virtuoso, Joseph Tawadros. - [Holst Society concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/holst-society-concert/) - The Holst Society present choral works by British composers, performed by the Oriel Singers - [Guildhall String Ensemble](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/guildhall-string-ensemble/) - An evening including music by British composers Elgar and Tippett directed by Jonathan Morton. - [Credo!](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/credo/) - Music by British composers William Byrd, James MacMillan and Jonathan Harvey are included in this concert of choral works. - [LSF Masterclass / BASC 2022](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/lsf-masterclass-basc-2022/) - Supported by the British Music Society and sponsored in this RVW150 year, by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, the masterclass will be given by Sir Thomas Allen. - [Love Restor’d](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/love-restord/) - Ceruleo bring Love Restor’d to On Your Doorstep concert series with music by Henry Purcell, John Blow and John Eccles - [noisenight13: sheku kanneh-mason + harry baker](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/noisenight13-sheku-kanneh-mason-harry-baker/) - Star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason explores song and improvisation with pianist-composer Harry Baker. - [British Music for Oboe, Tenor & Piano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/british-music-for-oboe-tenor-piano-148-394-389/) - A concert in celebration of Vaughan Williams' 150th along with music by Benjamin Britten, Thea Musgrave and Ruth Gipps. - [British Music for Oboe, Tenor & Piano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/british-music-for-oboe-tenor-piano-148-394/) - A concert in celebration of Vaughan Williams' 150th along with music by Benjamin Britten, Thea Musgrave and Ruth Gipps. - [British Music for Oboe, Tenor & Piano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/british-music-for-oboe-tenor-piano-148/) - A concert in celebration of Vaughan Williams' 150th along with music by Benjamin Britten, Thea Musgrave and Ruth Gipps. - [British Music for Oboe, Tenor & Piano](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/british-music-for-oboe-tenor-piano/) - A lunchtime concert in celebration of Vaughan Williams' 150th along with music by Benjamin Britten and Ruth Gipps. - [Star of Wonder](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/star-of-wonder/) - Renaissance and early Baroque masterpieces together with superb contemporary settings with the London Concord Singers. - [Chambers: Ardenti String Quartet and Contakt](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/chambers-ardenti-string-quartet-and-contakt/) - The Ardenti String Quartet play new quartets and trios by Contakt composers. - [Sing Joy the Day](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/sing-joy-the-day/) - A joyous programme for Christmas with the London Concord Singers. - [Out of the Shadows](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/out-of-the-shadows/) - For LGBT History Month, Robert Hugill presents Out of the Shadows, featuring the world premieres of his cantatas plus a selection of his songs. - [The 2022 Delius Prize](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-2022-delius-prize/) - Hosted by The Delius Society, the Delius Prize invites music students to present a 20-minute programme of music by Delius and his contemporaries. - [Kabantu - album launch](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/kabantu-album-launch/) - Award-winning folk-fusion collective Kabantu perform their new album freehand live for the first time in legendary Dalston music venue The Jago. - [noisenight12: Alexandra Whittingham](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/noisenight12-alexandra-whittingham-feat-esther-abrami/) - Guitarist Alexandra Whittingham and violinist Esther Abrami collaborate for a one-off show which also features the music of British composer Ernest Shand. - [EMF Autumn 2022 Series II](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/emf-autumn-2022-series-ii/) - Join us at luxurious 1901 Arts Club for music by Elgar, Gurney, Parry, Vaughan Williams, Baines and Tovey. - [The Silver Swan](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-silver-swan/) - An album launch of previously unrecorded works by Eric Thiman and Michael Head. - [Highgate International Chamber Music Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/highgate-international-chamber-music-festival/) - The Highgate International Chamber Music Festival is an annual celebration of chamber music in the intimate setting of St Anne's Church Highgate. - [Vaughan Williams 150th Anniversary Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/vaughan-williams-150th-anniversary-concert/) - Two of Vaughan Williams' best-loved symphonies performed by the Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra. - [Holst and Vaughan Williams in Gloucester](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/holst-and-vaughan-williams-in-gloucester/) - The Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams Societies host a day of concerts in Gloucester - [Vaughan Williams 150th birthday concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/vaughan-williams-150th-birthday-concert/) - Music by some of the finest Gloucestershire musicians including the Carducci Quartet and James Gilchrist to celebrate the 150th anniversary of one of the county's most famous sons. - [Mark Bebbington plays Delius' Piano Concerto](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/mark-bebbington-plays-delius-piano-concerto/) - Mark Bebbington performs Delius’ Piano Concerto alongside music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and William Walton. - [Shared Ground](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/shared-ground/) - Londinium celebrates the poet George Herbert in recent works by Dove, Weir, Park and MacMillan, Gibbons, Playford, Howells and Richard Lloyd plus Alec Roth. - [Project40 Ensemble - modern classics](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/project40-ensemble-modern-classics/) - Music by Peter Maxwell Davies, Elisabeth Lutyens, John Woolrich and Bernard van Dieren. - [noisenight10: Roberts Balanas](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/noisenight10-roberts-balanas/) - Music from Balanas to Pink Floyd in this diverse programme of musical interests which aims to tear down the boundaries between different genres of music. - [St Cecilia's Day Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/st-cecelias-day-concert/) - Celebrating exactly 75th years since the premier of Finzi’s For St Cecilia Winchester Music Club Choir and Orchestra will be joined by members of Winchester College. - [Revoiced: Choir & Saxophones at Whiddon Autumn Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/revoiced-choir-saxophones-at-whiddon-autumn-festival/) - The Corvus Consort and Ferio Saxophone Quartet perform music from their exciting new CD 'Revoiced' - [Festival Finale at Whiddon Autumn Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/festival-finale-at-whiddon-autumn-festival/) - Our finale concert with music by Harry Baker and Jonathan Dove alongside a new work by Composer-in-Residence Anna Semple. - [English Song Recital at Whiddon Autumn Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/english-song-recital-at-whiddon-autumn-festival/) - A beautiful programme of English song including music by Rebecca Clarke and Ralph Vaughan Williams. - [The 17th International Malcolm Arnold Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-17th-international-malcolm-arnold-festival-982-504/) - A day of live music-making available FREE-to-view online. - [RVW150 Gala Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/rvw150-gala-concert/) - A programme of works for violin and piano performed by Midori Komachi and Simon Callaghan - [Oxford Lieder - RVW150](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/oxford-lieder-rvw150/) - Our series of concerts celebrating Vaughan Williams, in partnership with BBC Radio 3 and BBC New Generation Artists, draws to a glorious close - [EMF Autumn 2022 Series](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/emf-autumn-2022-series/) - The first EMF Autumn Series takes place in the intimate 1901 Arts Club, London. - [The 17th International Malcolm Arnold Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-17th-international-malcolm-arnold-festival-982/) - A day of live music-making including concerts, talks, a masterclass and talks - [The 17th International Malcolm Arnold Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-17th-international-malcolm-arnold-festival/) - A Gala concert to celebrate the 17th International Malcolm Arnold Festival - [Leonard Salzedo Celebration Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/leonard-salzedo-celebration-concert/) - The Leonard Salzedo Society is organising a Celebration Concert on Saturday 24 September 2022, 101 years after Salzedo was born. - [New Music Britain | London Symphony Orchestra](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/new-music-britain-london-symphony-orchestra/) - Sir Simon Rattle kicks off the new LSO season with the best of British – from the sweeping landscapes of Elgar and Frank Bridge to the 21st-century sounds of Daniel Kidane. - [London Song Festival: A Passionate Love Affair - Ralph & Ursula](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/london-song-festival-a-passionate-love-affair/) - The story of Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams is told in words and music. - [London Song Festival: Friends and Lovers - Armstrong Gibbs & de la Mare](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/london-song-festival-friends-and-lovers/) - An overview of the songs and lifelong friendship between Cecil Armstrong Gibbs and Walter de la Mare. - [London Song Festival: Friends and Lovers - Britten & Auden](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/london-song-festival-friends-and-lovers-541/) - The story of Britten and Auden’s relationship which flourished on a musical level but floundered on a personal level. - [Corvedale Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/corvedale-festival/) - An international arts event in south Shropshire consisting of concerts of chamber music, literary events and an art exhibition. - [Purcell Concert in Wardour Chapel with the Cherubim Chamber Choir](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/purcell-concert-in-wardour-chapel-with-the-cherubim-chamber-choir/) - A choral weekend, directed by baroque expert Greg Skidmore. Featuring familiar anthems, instrumental music, glees and catches. - [Let All the World in Every Corner Sing](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/let-all-the-world-in-every-corner-sing/) - The Houston Chamber Choir opens its 28th season with a concert in tribute to composer Ralph Vaughan Williams - [Sing Joyfully: A Celebration of British Choral Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/sing-joyfully-a-celebration-of-british-choral-music-963/) - Londinium performs masterpieces from the British tradition in Leiden. - [Sing Joyfully: A Celebration of British Choral Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/sing-joyfully-a-celebration-of-british-choral-music/) - Londinium performs masterpieces from the British tradition in Amsterdam. - [Thanet Chamber Concert with 'Off the Wall' ensemble](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/thanet-chamber-concert-with-off-the-wall-ensemble-839/) - A rare chance to hear Alfred Wall's exhilarating piano quartet. - [Concert of Thanet Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/concert-of-thanet-music/) - Thanet Light Orchestra will play music by Alfred Wall, Bill Worland, Susan Spain-Dunk, Alan Ridout and Hubert Clifford. - [Sir Arthur Bliss: Standing out from the crowd](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/sir-arthur-bliss-standing-out-from-the-crowd/) - A talk by Paul Spicer launching his newly published book Sir Arthur Bliss: Standing out from the crowd followed by a recital. - [An English Serenade](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/an-english-serenade/) - The National Symphony Orchestra performing English music by Elgar, Finzi, Robert Matthew-Walker, Benjamin Britten and Vaughan Williams. - [Elgar Royal Platinum Jubilee Gala](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/elgar-royal-platinum-jubilee-gala/) - The Elgar Royal Platinum Jubilee Gala presents a programme of music which includes the orchestral premiere of Ian Venables' song cycle , The Song of the Severn. - [High Barnet Chamber Music Festival: The Echéa Quartet](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-echea-quartet/) - The Echéa Quartet perform quartets from three experts of the genre including Quartet No 6 by Elizabeth Lutyens. - [High Barnet Chamber Music Festival: Mad Song](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/mad-song/) - Ensemble Mad Song perform works from the last 40 years including 'Sleep' by Richard Causton. - [High Barnet Chamber Music Festival: New London Orchestra](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/high-barnet-chamber-music-festival/) - A concert of twentieth-century night music including works by Ailsa Dixon and Benjamin Britten - [The Delius Society 60th Anniversary Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-delius-society-60th-anniversary-concert/) - A unique concert of chamber music to mark The Delius Society's 60th anniversary. - [Sospiri Chamber Orchestra](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/sospiri-chamber-orchestra/) - Frome's newest professional orchestra play British string orchestra classics in the stunning acoustic of Trinity Church. - [A Vaughan Williams Celebration](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/a-vaughan-williams-celebration/) - Midori Komachi, violin, and Simon Callaghan, piano, celebrate Vaughan Williams’s 150th Anniversary by performing his complete works for Violin and Piano - [Gregynog Festival 2022: Baffling](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/gregynog-festival-2022-baffling/) - Rhian Davies considers the remarkable occasion when Bartók made his UK public recital début in Aberystwyth in 1922, visiting Peter Warlock on his way back to London. - [Gregynog Festival 2022: Maximilian Ehrhardt](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/gregynog-festival-2022-maximilian-ehrhardt/) - Maximilian Ehrhardt specialises in playing historic harps. This recital showcases some of the repertoire that demonstrates the skill of John Parry (1710-1782). - [Gregynog Festival 2022: By Particular Desire](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/gregynog-festival-2022-by-particular-desire/) - Rhian Davies reconstructs the eighteenth-century world when Welsh exports to Bath included performers, composers and impresarios as well as flannel, cobs and mutton. - [Gregynog Festival 2022: Llyr Williams](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/gregynog-festival-2022-llyr-williams/) - Bartók visited Warlock at his Montgomeryshire home after making his recital début at Aberystwyth in 1922, and Llŷr’s recital marks the centenary of these remarkable events. - [Glamorous Night](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/glamorous-night/) - Leave the stresses of the week behind and indulge in a glamorous night of music and wine. - [Into Spring](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/into-spring/) - Leap into spring with the Bach Choir for this concert of British-inspired choral music. - [Music from the Cotswolds](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/music-from-the-cotswolds/) - A celebration of the anniversary of the births of Ralph Vaughan Williams (150 years), Herbert Howells (130 years) and the life Quintin Ballardie, founder of the EDO. - [Thomas Hardy : Wessex Love Songs](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/thomas-hardy-wessex-love-songs/) - A celebration of the repertoire of English Song inspired by Thomas Hardy's poetry and prose. - [Vaughan Williams: a Celebration](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/vaughan-williams-a-celebration/) - The Philharmonia Orchestra together with The Bach Choir performs an all-Vaughan Williams programme to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth. - [Three Choirs Festival 2022: Hereford](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/three-choirs-festival-2022-hereford/) - A week-long programme of world-class music making, featuring choral and orchestral concerts, solo and chamber music recitals, talks, cathedral services, theatre, exhibitions, and walks. - [2022 Royal Jubilee Elgar Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/2022-royal-jubilee-elgar-festival/) - What better way to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen, than with a weekend of the best of British music played in the heart of Elgar Country. - [Hertfordshire Festival of Music 2022](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/hertfordshire-festival-of-music-2022/) - The Hertford Festival of Music rejoices in the resurgence of live music in Hertfordshire with an exciting programme of glorious music, both old and new. - [The 15th English Music Festival 2022](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-15th-english-music-festival-2022/) - The Fifteenth English Music Festival returns to Oxfordshire's Dorchester Abbey - [Leamington Music Festival 2022](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/leamington-music-festival-2022/) - The Festival’s starting point is a celebration of 150 years since Ralph Vaughan Williams was born. It features music by composers who taught and inspired him. - [Ryedale Festival 2022](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/ryedale-festival-2022/) - Taking place in churches and country houses across Ryedale in North Yorkshire, Rydale Festival presents a feast of music by British composers - [Church Stretton Arts Festival 2022](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/church-stretton-arts-festival-2022/) - Karolos will be performing Stephen Dodgson’s String Trio no. 2 at the Church Stretton Arts Festival - [Swaledale Festival 2022](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/swaledale-festival-2022/) - Magnard Ensemble will perform music by Stephen Dodgson, Amy Beach and others. - [Holst Society Recital](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/holst-society-recital/) - A recital of music for piano by English composers given by The Willshire Piano Duo: James Willshire and Pippa Harrison. Music by Gustav Holst and Nicola LeFanu. - [De Profundis](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/de-profundis/) - A performance of Rzewski's setting of Oscar Wilde De Profundis alongside contemporary music for solo piano performed by Eric McElroy. - [Tenor Obsessions](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/tenor-obsessions/) - Five of the Obsessions series of concerts presented in Autumn 2021 by the The London Song Festival are available to view online until 14 March. - [A Short Story of Falling](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/a-short-story-of-falling/) - tenor James Gilchrist and pianist-composer Eric McElroy perform the world premiere of McElroy’s ‘A Short Story of Falling’, and songs by Lennox Berkeley, Doreen Carwithen and Muriel Herbert. - [Music for Piano Duet](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/music-for-piano-duet/) - A programme of music for piano duet, including Ailsa Dixon’s Airs of the Seasons, a four-movement sonata for 4 hands. - [INTERNATIONAL GILBERT & SULLIVAN FESTIVAL - Buxton](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/international-gilbert-sullivan-festival-buxton/) - The International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival is back in Buxton and Harrogate in July and August 2022 - [INTERNATIONAL GILBERT & SULLIVAN FESTIVAL - Harrogate](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/international-gilbert-sullivan-festival-harrogate/) - The International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival is back in Buxton and Harrogate in July and August 2022 - [Quartets for Palm Sunday](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/quartets-for-palm-sunday/) - The Villiers Quartet give the first live concert performance of Ailsa Dixon’s string quartet Variations on Love Divine. - [Hareflight: a new opera for tenor and flautist](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/hareflight-a-new-opera-for-tenor-and-flautist/) - A new opera for flute and tenor about truth, knowledge and impossible speed by Scottish composer and writer, Alastair White. - [English Music of the 20th Century](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/english-music-of-the-20th-century/) - Gloucestershire's only professional Chamber Choir, elements, present a programme featuring music written by English composers of the 20th Century. - [Elgar's Enigma Variations](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/elgars-enigma-variations-950/) - Music by Elgar and Vaughan Williams with Jasper Dommett's Dreams of Isolation - [Elgar's Enigma Variations](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/elgars-enigma-variations/) - Music by Elgar and Vaughan Williams with Jasper Dommett's Dreams of Isolation - [Come and Sing!](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/come-and-sing/) - Come and Sing in this Last Night of the Proms celebration for Her Majesty the Queen’s 70th Jubilee - [Toward the Unknown Region: RVW150](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/toward-the-unknown-region-rvw150-601-591-790/) - The Hallé and BBC Philharmonic celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth with a complete symphonic cycle in a unique Mancunian tribute. - [Toward the Unknown Region: RVW150](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/toward-the-unknown-region-rvw150-601-591-790-849/) - The Hallé and BBC Philharmonic celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth with a complete symphonic cycle in a unique Mancunian tribute. - [Toward the Unknown Region: RVW150](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/toward-the-unknown-region-rvw150-601-591/) - The Hallé and BBC Philharmonic celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth with a complete symphonic cycle in a unique Mancunian tribute. - [Toward the Unknown Region: RVW150](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/toward-the-unknown-region-rvw150-601/) - The Hallé and BBC Philharmonic celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth with a complete symphonic cycle in a unique Mancunian tribute. - [Toward the Unknown Region: RVW150](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/toward-the-unknown-region-rvw150-985/) - The Hallé and BBC Philharmonic celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth with a complete symphonic cycle in a unique Mancunian tribute. - [Toward the Unknown Region: RVW150](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/toward-the-unknown-region-rvw150/) - The Hallé and BBC Philharmonic celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth with a complete symphonic cycle in a unique Mancunian tribute. - [Kew Sinfonia](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/kew-sinfonia/) - Kew Sinfonia returns to Bedford Park with an exciting and varied programme including the London premiere of Matthew Taylor's 6th Symphony alongside Schumann’s Violin Concerto. - [Vaughan Williams 150th Anniversary](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/vaughan-williams-150th-anniversary/) - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and City of London Choir celebrate 150 years since Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth. - [Holst’s Sāvitri](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/holsts-savitri/) - Fusing classical Indian Kathak dance styles with contemporary storytelling to bring to life Holst’s chamber opera Sāvitri. - [Britten Sinfonia: Vaughan Williams 150th Anniversary](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/britten-sinfonia-vaughan-williams-150th-anniversary/) - A very special evening of pastoral music celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams. His elegiac and yearning Oboe Concerto is a perfect partner to the soaring melodies of The Lark Ascending, performed here alongside music by Holst, Sibelius, Bridge and Grace Williams. - [Britten Sinfonia: Vaughan Williams 150th Anniversary](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/britten-sinfonia-vaughan-williams-150th-anniversary-894/) - A very special evening of pastoral music celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams. - [Barnes Music Festival: Stephen Dodgson’s Trio no. 2 'Canonic Episodes'](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/barnes-music-festival-stephen-dodgsons-soler-sonata-567/) - The critically acclaimed and award-winning Mithras Trio present a colourful programme of works. - [Barnes Music Festival: Stephen Dodgson’s Soler Sonata](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/barnes-music-festival-stephen-dodgsons-soler-sonata/) - The Connaught Brass Ensemble, return to the Barnes Music Festival with an eclectic mix of repertoire. - [Barnes Music Festival: Stephen Dodgson’s Six Bagatelles](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/barnes-music-festival-stephen-dodgsons-six-bagatelles/) - Osman Tack performs a lunchtime recital of Stephen Dodgson’s Six Bagatelles: Set 2 (their first public performance) - [John Wilson conducts Elgar & Walton](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/john-wilson-conducts-elgar-walton/) - John Wilson conducts the Philharmonia with music by Walton and Elgar - and a special BMS discount offer! - [Notes from a Small Island III](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/notes-from-a-small-island-iii/) - Mark Bebbington performs British piano works by McCabe, Matthew-Walker and Simpson. - [National Opera Studio](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/national-opera-studio/) - A showcase of operatic music including semi-staged scenes featuring music by Britten and Jonathan Dove. Conducted by Richard Farnes. - [Matthew Schellhorn at St. Catharine's College](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/st-catharines-college/) - Matthew Schellhorn gives a one of a series of three piano recitals from Cambridge. - [Matthew Schellhorn at Corpus Christi College](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/corpus-christi-college/) - Matthew Schellhorn gives a one of a series of three piano recitals from Cambridge. - [Matthew Schellhorn at Girton College](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/girton-college/) - Matthew Schellhorn gives a one of a series of three piano recitals from Cambridge. - [Music for Two Violas](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/music-for-two-violas/) - Music at 'The Painted Church' including music composed by Simon Rowland-Jones, Frank Bridge and Orlando Gibbons. - [A London Afternoon](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/a-london-afternoon/) - It was London that brought Grace Williams together with Ralph Vaughan Williams, her teacher at the Royal College of Music, and Benjamin Britten, a fellow student there. - [Jamie Phillips conducts BBC NOW](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/jamie-phillips-conducts-bbc-now-2/) - The BBC National Orchestra of Wales Penillion by Grace Williams and with Violinist Madeleine Mitchell performing Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending. - [Heart's Ease: Spirituality in the Music of John Tavener](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/hearts-ease-spirituality-in-the-music-of-john-tavener-770/) - A book launch and memorial evensong to mark the publication of Heart’s Ease: Spirituality in the music of John Tavener, the first book to examine the music of John Tavener. - [Heart's Ease: Spirituality in the Music of John Tavener](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/hearts-ease-spirituality-in-the-music-of-john-tavener/) - A themed concert following introductory talks to mark the publication of Heart’s Ease, the first book to examine the music of John Tavener. - [A Tenor Obsession](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/a-tenor-obsession/) - A celebration of two great tenors; Enrico Caruso and Gervase Elwes including music by Vaughan Williams and Roger Quilter. - [Artist Portrait: Antoine Tamestit](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/artist-portrait-antoine-tamestit/) - Antoine Tamestit continues his Artist Portrait with the London Symphony Orchestra as he gives a captivating performance of William Walton’s beloved Viola Concerto - [The Drowning Shore](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-drowning-shore/) - An evening of new music set against the backdrop of a new film cantata celebrating the intersection of Scottish and Yiddish culture. - [Concert in memory of Paul Adrian Rooke](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/concert-in-memory-of-paul-adrian-rooke/) - A concert in memory of Paul Adrian Rooke with music by Elgar, Rutland Boughton and Paul Adrian Rooke. - [Christopher Moore Organ Recital](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/world-doctors-orchestra-528-471/) - Organist Christopher Moore gives a recital with Cambridge connections on All Saints' Church original organ - [English Music Festival Autumn 2021](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/english-music-festival-440/) - Live music with the English Music Festival's celebration of music by British composers. - [Elgar Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/elgar-festival/) - A special Autumn Elgar Festival for 2021 in venues across Worcester and the rest of Elgar Country. - [World Doctors Orchestra](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/world-doctors-orchestra-528/) - The World Doctors Orchestra featuring clinicians from across the globe playing music by a trio of British composers - [World Doctors Orchestra](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/world-doctors-orchestra/) - The World Doctors Orchestra featuring clinicians from across the globe playing music by a trio of British composers - [Garden in Summer](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/garden-in-summer/) - A free launch event on zoom to celebrate the release of the maxi-single Garden in Summer. - [Silence and Music](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/silence-and-music/) - A concert of a cappella choral music featuring works by Tomkins, Gibbons, Purcell, Vaughan Williams, Harris, Clarke, Leighton, Hughes and Briggs - [Notes from a Small Island II](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/notes-from-a-small-island-ii/) - A programme of music by Ireland, Dickinson and Elgar. - [After the Voices](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/after-the-voices/) - An in-person and livestreamed performance by pianist Eric McElroy and tenor James Gilchrist - [Gloucester Music Society](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/gloucester-music-society/) - Music by John Ireland, Ivor Gurney, Ian Venables and Eric McElroy - [Little Venice Music Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/leamington-music-festival-weekend-980/) - A double bill of performances from the Berkeley Ensemble - [Holst Birthday Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/holst-birthday-concert/) - A celebration of the 147th birthday of Gustav Holst - [Leamington Music Festival Weekend](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/leamington-music-festival-weekend/) - A weekend festival featuring the music of Robert Simpson - [LSO/Rattle: New Music Britain](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/lso-rattle-new-music-britain/) - Sir Simon Rattle opens the LSO's new season with a concertspanning over 100 years of British music - [Malcolm Arnold Centenary Concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/malcolm-arnold-centenary-concert/) - A concert to celebrate the works of Malcolm Arnold on the year of his centenary - [Part Songs by Holst and Vaughan Williams](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/part-songs-by-holst-and-vaughan-williams/) - A concert of Part Songs by Holst and Vaughan Williams - [To the Gentle Light](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/to-the-gentle-light-26-sept/) - The World Première of 'To the Gentle Light' by BMS member Paul Henley - [To the Gentle Light](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/to-the-gentle-light-25-sept/) - The World Première of 'To the Gentle Light' by BMS member Paul Henley - [The Stanford Festival Weekend 2021](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-stanford-festival-weekend-2021/) - A three day festival celebrating the life and music of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford - [Ralph Vaughan Williams - a Celebration](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/ralph-vaughan-williams-a-celebration/) - Gloucester Choral Society performs a compilation of some of the best choral works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. - [Oare String Orchestra](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/royal-philharmonic-orchestra-at-75-303/) - An all British programme featuring music by Holst, Elgar, Aviss, Finzi, Ireland and Susan Spain-Dunk. - [British Art Song Competition (BASC) 2021](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/british-art-song-competition-basc-2021/) - The British Music Society’s annual masterclass and British Art Song Competition - [Ludlow English Song Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/ludlow-english-song-festival/) - A LIVE festival featuring six events - [In Gloucestershire](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/in-gloucestershire/) - A snapshot of Gloucestershire life through words and music - [The 16th International Malcolm Arnold Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-16th-international-malcolm-arnold-festival/) - A digital centenary celebration of the composer's works. - [Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at 75: A Star-studded Celebration](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/royal-philharmonic-orchestra-at-75/) - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates 75 years as it welcomes Vasily Petrenko as their new Music Director. - [English Music Weekend at Hellens](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/english-music-weekend-at-hellens/) - A series of 3 concerts over one weekend celebrating the works of 20th century and contemporary English composers. - [British Music Festival in Taiwan](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/british-music-festival-in-taiwan/) - The British Music Festival in Taiwan is a two-week mid-summer festival celebrates the beauty of British Music. - [Rune Interactive Broadcast](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/rune-313/) - A vast cosmological fantasy re-opening theatre doors with a grand fashion-opera spectacle - [Rune](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/rune/) - A vast cosmological fantasy re-opening theatre doors with a grand fashion-opera spectacle - [Mark Bebbington Piano Recital](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/mark-bebbington-piano-recital/) - A piano recital of English music by Mark Bebbington - [Arthur Bliss 130th anniversary concert](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/bliss-130/) - A Celebration of the 130th Anniversary of the birth of Arthur Bliss - [The Proms](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-proms/) - The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival is back in 2021. - [The Alwyn Music Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-alwyn-music-festival/) - The Suffolk coast’s autumn classical music festival featuring the music of William Alwyn - [Adrian Williams - a Composer Portrait](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/adrian-williams-a-composer-portrait/) - A celebration of the music of Adrian Williams with The English Symphony Orchestra. - [Diversity and the British String Quartet](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/diversity-and-the-british-string-quartet/) - A series of livestreamed concerts as part of an online Symposium ‘Diversity and the British String Quartet’ featuring works by British composers. - [London Song Festival 2021](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/london-song-festival-2021/) - The London 2021 Song Festival mini series of four concerts bringing a feast of English Song, sung by some of the finest young singers in this country. - [Music from Wyastone – Studio Concert Series Elgar Reimagined (Part 2)](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/elgar-reimagined-part-2/) - English Symphony Orchestra performs Edward Elgar arr. David Matthews String Quartet in E minor - [The Idea](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-idea/) - Gustav Holst’s The Idea – a UK Premier. Re worked, newly arranged, tuneful and topical. - [Notes from a Small Island](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/notes-from-a-small-island/) - Pianist Mark Bebbington premieres works by Robert Matthew-Walker alongside piano music by Simpson, Alwyn and Ireland. - [Brave New World](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/brave-new-world/) - A live-streamed performance to include music by Finzi, Elgar and a world premiere by Roderick Williams - [A Penchant for Pinto](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/a-penchant-for-pinto-323/) - Jonathan Delbridge performs a series of free live Facebook broadcasts featuring the music of George Frederick Pinto (1785-1806) “The English Mozart”. - [A Penchant for Pinto](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/a-penchant-for-pinto-520/) - Jonathan Delbridge performs a series of free live Facebook broadcasts featuring the music of George Frederick Pinto (1785-1806) “The English Mozart”. - [Albany Trio: The Orchid and its Hunters](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/albany-trio-the-orchid-and-its-hunters/) - A programme of works for piano trio including 'The Orchid and its Hunters' by Judith Bingham OBE - [Convivio: From Leipzig to London](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/convivio-from-leipzig-to-london/) - Gems from the High Baroque featuring British music by Purcell and Handel - [Passamezzo: Old Christmas Returned](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/passamezzo-old-christmas-returned/) - Christmas celebrated, banned and restored in 17th Century England - [Gildas Quartet: String Quartet Classics](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/gildas-quartet-string-quartet-classics/) - Gildas Quartet perform Britten's String Quartet No 2 in C Major Op 36 - [A Penchant for Pinto](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/a-penchant-for-pinto/) - Jonathan Delbridge performs a series of free live Facebook broadcasts featuring the music of George Frederick Pinto (1785-1806) “The English Mozart”. - [Horovitz](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/horovitz/) - A live streamed concert performed in New College Chapel by the Solem Quartet to celebrate the 95th birthday of renowned composer and New College alumnus, Joseph Horovitz - [Three Choirs Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/three-choirs-festival/) - The next Three Choirs Festival incorporating the themes of journeying, exploration and looking to the future will take place this summer in Worcester. - [The Great Romantics](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/the-great-romantics/) - A glorious program of inspirational music including Elgar's timeless Cello Concerto - [English Music Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/english-music-festival/) - Live music returns this Spring Bank Holiday weekend with the English Music Festival's 14th celebration of music by British composers. - [Elgar Sinfonia](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/elgar-sinfonia/) - Following the cancellation of the April concert the next Elgar Sinfonia will be held in June featuring music by Elgar, McCunn and Finzi featuring Daniel Benn (cello). - [Matthew Schellhorn (piano)](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/elgar-reimagined-part-1-157/) - Starting with live notes at 12.45pm and the recital at 1pm with works by John McCabe, Herbert Howells and Linda Buckley. - [A Century of Music by British Women](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/a-century-of-music-by-british-women/) - Starting at 8pm this live-streamed concert will celebrate music by British women spanning a century. - [Ruth Gipps: A Centennial Symposium](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/ruth-gipps-a-centennial-symposium/) - Starting at 5.45pm, this event is an hour of talks and music marking 100 years since the composers birth. - [Elgar Reimagined (part 1)](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/elgar-reimagined-part-1/) - Starting at 7.30pm, English Symphony Orchestra presents a wonderful exploration of Elgar - [Online Recital via Zoom](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/online-recital/) - Songs by women composers, including Caroline Maude, Elizabeth Maconchy and Ailsa Dixon. - [Scottish Ensemble’s Concert by Candlelight](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/online-recital-2/) - A spectacular filmed concert, rich in glowing atmosphere and steeped in solace. - [English Music Festival Christmas Concerts](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/english-music-festival-christmas-concerts/) - Two Christmas concerts from the English Music Festival in Horsham, West Sussex - [Classical music and opera online streams](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/classical-music-and-opera-online-streams/) - The ClassicFM website provides listings of many of the major classical concerts and events being streamed online and is a great resource worth exploring: - [London Song Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/lsf/) - A series of 11 concerts celebrating the different ways that composers, poets, and even an entire city, have searched for and found solace in art, in music and in poetry. - [Gilbert & Sullivan online](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/gsopera/) - The UK's famous International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival launched its new online streaming service – GSOPERA.TV - [Discovering Delius](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/discovering-delius/) - The Villiers Quartet will give the world premiere of Delius’s first string quartet. - [International Malcolm Arnold Festival](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/international-malcolm-arnold-festival/) - Due to Covid-19 the 15th International Malcolm Arnold Festival entitled ‘A Man of the People’ will be held online from 17 to 18 October 2020. - [test event 50000](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/test-event-50000/) - [test event 200](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/test-event-200/) - [test event 100](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/test-event-100/) - [Test event sidebar 3](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/test-event-sidebar-3/) - [Test event sidebar 2](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/test-event-sidebar-2/) - [Test event sidebar](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/test-event-sidebar/) - [Test event 4](https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/events/test-event-4/) - 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