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New release features long forgotten Elgar recordings
The continuing collaboration of SOMM Recordings and Lani Spahr has produced another release of long forgotten and neglected recordings of Elgar’s music…
Music news in brief
An historic music library – the largest in the North of England – reopened in January after undergoing a major redevelopment…
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…
The Lancashire Caruso
How many British opera singers get a Wetherspoons pub named after them? Not many – but here’s one I stumbled upon when cruising along the Leeds & Liverpool Canal…
GRACE WILLIAMS: The Parlour
One remarkable feature of the work is the fact that Williams wrote her own libretto and made an excellent job of it, using some very sophisticated rhyme schemes…
THOMAS PITFIELD: Orchestral Music
Pitfield supporters during his lifetime boasted Sir John Barbirolli, David Ellis (Head of Music for Radio 3 North), Leo Black (BBC Radio 3 producer), as well as many performers…
THE LIVING FIRE
…in his note on the recording the Director of Music, Benjamin Sheen, makes the point that the college continues ‘provide a platform for emerging artists from within the College community to showcase their work..
EVERLASTING LIGHT
This CD is being issued to mark the 125th anniversary of the Bath Abbey Boys Choir. The programme is an enterprising blend of well-known choral items with others which are much less familiar…