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Digitising the BMS Journals
An exciting new project to digitise all articles from all existing BMS Journals has started…
Obituary: David Beck
Despite, or perhaps because of, sharing a surname with Swiss, German, American and Canadian composers, the British composer David Beck remained for much of his life in the shadows as an orchestral violinist…
New titles from Goodmusic
Music publisher Goodmusic has recently published around 100 new works, almost all of which are British.
Jury for youth music contest announced
The jury panel for the 4th New Talent British International Youth Music Competition has been announced…
Award for baroque violinist
The wife of BMS President Raphael Wallfisch has been awarded the Telemann prize…
Guess the composer
Can you identify the following excerpt from the first and last pages of a Sarabande for piano dated 1939?
Nocturne: composed during lockdown
British composer John Whittaker shares a film of his ‘Nocturne’ which was composed during lockdown…
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Cello Concerto, Symphony no 5
Even if the pace flags once or twice the big-boned finale carries the work through a series of closely-argued variations to a convincing if wrenching climax…
VOYAGE OF A SEA-GOD
The programme here follows the repertory for bassoon on its interesting journey from 1900-1999. Most, but not all, are by British composers, or British by adoption…
RICHARD ADDINSELL: British Light Music
Addinsell’s niche as a composer was as a significant contributor to film, incidental and light music. The liner notes say that his way of working was to ‘play what he had composed at the piano…