BMS stock take sale
From 1 February to 31 March 2021 the following CDs can be bought online at special prices for BMS members and subscribers to the monthly BMS e-newsletter. All the CDs below have been reduced in price to £5; double and triple CDs are available for £10. These prices...
Donations sought for rare Ivor Gurney record
Funding is being sought by EM Records 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. The CD will feature 16 world premiere recordings and baritone Jeremy Huw Williams and pianists...
BBC Proms returns in summer 2026
The BBC Proms returns in summer 2026, presenting eight weeks of world-class music from an array of leading orchestras, conductors and soloists from across the UK and around the world. A season-long celebration of American music marks 250 years since the signing of the...
EDMUND RUBBRA: Choral Music
The Chapel Choir of Merton College, Oxford Benjamin Nicholas conductorFrançois Cloete and Owen Chann organ DELPHIAN DCD34332 [58] Since his death 40 years ago, Edmund Rubbra’s music remains on the outskirts of the repertoire. Much still deserves an airing but...
Festival to focus on composer Julius Benedict
A week-long Julius Benedict Festival, organised by Music in the Burnhams, is taking place in The Burnhams, North Norfolk from 19 to 24 July 2026. Presented in collaboration with the Museum of Music History, the festival will begin with an Evensong featuring St...
JIM AITCHISON: Piano Quintets
Roderick Chadwick pianoKreutzer Quartet MÉTIER RECORDS mex 77141 Jim Aitchison is a composer known for his musical responses to visual art, and he is a visual artist in his own right. Aitchison’s first piano quintet, Margarete, has its relationship to Anselm Kiefer’s...
HAVERGAL BRIAN: Symphony No. 1 ‘The Gothic’
Ole Schmidt conductorLSO, choruses and soloists HERITAGE HTGCD 124 (2 CDs) Like, I suspect, some other BMS members I recall tumbling from the Albert Hall in May 1980 dazed by the power of the music I had just experienced. Now here is a remastered recording of...
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: the oratorio The Kingdom, Op. 51 and the ever-popular Variations on an Original Theme ‘Enigma,’ Op. 36....
Music for Margaret
Heaton Moor United Church, Stockport 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. That was the case on 18th April when...
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 by The British Music Society Charitable Trust. We began in fine style with a concert by the Trinity College Music Society conducted by senior...