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Elaine Hugh-Jones dies aged 93
BMS member Elaine Hugh-Jones, a Welsh pianist, composer and an educationalist, has died aged 93.
Support sought for new composer films
Plans for two video documentaries on John McCabe and John Joubert have been announced by BMS.
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
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
A concert celebrated a Century of Music by British Women fon International Women’s Day.
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…
Elgar Symphonies CDs 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.
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…
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…
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..