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
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.
A new chapter starts for LSO at St Luke’s
The London Symphony Orchestra has announced a new chapter for LSO St Luke’s…
Bite-Back: 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…
Petition calls for arts to be integral in new PM’s plan
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…
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…
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
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
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 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…
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
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…