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Award for Sir Simon Rattle at 70
The conductor, who turned 70 in January, is to receive the 2025 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize ‘in recognition of his lifetime dedication to music’…
Sheffield music hub awarded £3.5m funding
Plans to transform a Grade II* listed building in Sheffield city centre into a new music hub for the region has been boosted by £3.5m of funding from Arts Council England…
Versatile musician Elgar Howarth dies aged 89
Elgar Howarth, trumpeter, composer and later, conductor of repute, has died…
Music of British composer Anthony Hedges to be recorded
The piano music of British composer Anthony Hedges will be recorded in 2025 by the young English pianist Adam Davies…
Obituary: composer and BMS member Christopher Wright
Christopher Wright, composer and loyal BMS member, has died aged 70…
O SACRUM CONVIVIUM!: Music for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi
The feast of Corpus Christi was instituted in the reign of Pope Urban IV in 1264, and the liturgy was constructed by no less an authority than St Thomas Aquinas…
HALLÉ: Adès, Leith and Marsey
This, above all, is a showcase for the Hallé, who play with brilliance and authority in these kaleidoscopic scores. Their titles may suggest that they are all programmatic in a sense..,
MADELEINE DRING: Complete Music for Oboe
By a happy accident just a few days before this CD plopped on my doormat, I had heard an excellent performance of Dring’s Trio for Flute, Oboe and Piano in Hereford. It had been composed in 1968 and consists of three movements. Afterwards I told the performers what a joy it was to hear this work…
GRACE WILLIAMS: Songs
Naxos continues its long-running series of releases sponsored by the British Music Society with an album of songs by Grace Williams, all of which are recorded here for the first time…
ERROLLYN WARREN: Orchestral Works
Errollyn Wallen seems to be a force of nature. Composer of 20 operas and much, much more, her journey has taken her from her native Belize via New York and Cambridge to (currently) Orkney…