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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. You can read the article here. The Society would like to encourage members to...
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. Having received professional training from an early age from her organist father H. A Bate, Jennifer chose to focus...
John McCabe’s 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.
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.
Arnold Bax to be recognised in Scotland
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...
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 (1934-2016). A dissatisfied part of the audience booed and walked out, during the premier performance of his large orchestral work, ‘Worldes...
Shopping with Grace Williams
A personal memoir of meeting Grace Williams in the late 1960s at her home in Barry, by Andrew Youdell.
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.