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Two new albums to be released by NMC Recordings
NMC Recordings has announced the forthcoming release of two albums featuring music by the award-winning composer Martin Iddon and an album of works for cello performed by Clare O’Connell…
Bliss anniversary celebrated during 2025
In recognition of 2025 marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Arthur Bliss, more than 100 performances of 46 works by the composer are planned so far this year…
English Music Festival returns to Dorchester Abbey
The 18th annual English Music Festival will feature the long-awaited World Première performance of the Symphony no.2 by the composer Stanley Bate…
US festival features Sir James MacMillan
The Sir James MacMillan Festival will take place from 31 March to 7 April in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota…
Tickets go on sale for Elgar Festival 2025
Themed ‘Celebrate with Elgar’, the 2025 Elgar Festival will take place from Saturday 24 May until Sunday 1 June…
Remembering Anthony Gilbert
July 5th marks the second anniversary of the passing of celebrated composer and longtime Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) composition professor Anthony ‘Tony’ Gilbert…
THOMAS PITFIELD: Orchestral Music
This important release builds on the success of the recordings of Thomas Pitfield’s chamber and vocal music that recently appeared on the Divine Art label…
BRIAN ANDREW INGLIS: To Byzantium and Beyond
The two electronic pieces on this fascinating disc might be described as mood music of the kind that is regularly encountered on Radio 3’s Night Tracks…
Panufnik Legacies IV
This is the fourth CD resulting from the LSO’s Discovery programme showcasing new composers, guided by Colin Matthews (whose own mastery of orchestration was doubtless most useful)…
When I was One-and-Twenty: English Song
The background to this disc is given in its subtitle ‘A celebration of love and the English Landscape underpinned by the poetry of A.E.Housman’…