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Recording projects to mark RVW 150 years
Vaughan Williams’ 150th birthday will be celebrated in style in 2022 by Albion Records…
BMS offer on new books
BMS members are offered a discount of up to 30% on two new books from Yale University Press…
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
New BMS Journals available online
We are making excellent progress with the digitisation of past issues of BMS journals.
Welcome to new members
A warm welcome to new members who joined the Society recently…
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
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…
BRITISH OBOE QUINTETS
The disc is beautifully recorded throughout and has very useful booklet notes by Mervyn Cooke and Nicholas Daniel…
CRÉPUSCULE
Production is in every way up to the usual high standards of the label: the final result is 77 minutes of vivid listening pleasure…
DE PROFUNDIS CLAMAVI: Piano works
This typically adventurous double-CD (packed with première recordings) opens with a 1938 Sonata from Birmingham’s Christopher Edwards…