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British composer to collaborate with London orchestra
British composer, arranger and saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi is set to collaborate with the London Symphony Orchestra as part of this year’s London Jazz Festival…
John McCabe book to launch
‘So Written to After-Times’ is a compilation of letters to, or by, John McCabe, and is soon to be published by Forsyth in Manchester…
Holst concerto to premiere in London
Imogen Holst’s Violin Concerto will be given its first public performance in London next month…
British music featured in Leeds festival
The Red Violin Festival, taking place in Leeds from 14th to 19th October, will feature a wide range of British music…
Concert celebrates Holst’s 150th anniversary
BMS members are being offered discounted tickets to an event next month celebrating the 150th anniversary of composer Gustav Holst…
NARESH SOHAL: Lila; Violin Concerto
Lila is a cycle of seven connected movements and the Violin Concerto is in the three movements; these are major canvases by this wrongly overlooked master composer…
SHIFT: Works for Trombone and Brass Band
Simon Dobson’s three-movement concerto from 2012 entitled Shift… is a tremendously exciting work, the outer two movements being full of high energy and seemingly impossible scoring…
HAVERGAL BRIAN: Symphonies Nos. 29, 30, 31 & 32
The compact Symphony 30 is one of Brian’s most enigmatic. The only way to grasp this intense, dramatic, often violent music is to decode its densely-layered meaning bar by bar…
EDWARD COWIE: Rock Music (Piano Sonatas 1-3)
Do not be misled by the title Rock Music. It refers not to rock n’ roll music, but to piano music born out of rumination on different types of rock, rock out of which our planet is built…
JUSTIN CONNOLLY: Music for Strings (plus…)
It is a wonderful idea to combine the virtuosity of the Kreutzer Quartet with the fine talents of students from the Royal Academy in these totally brilliant performances…