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Composer Adrian Sutton releases new album
War Horse composer Adrian Sutton, now living with an incurable cancer diagnosis, releases his new album of orchestral works next month…
Errollyn Wallen appointed Master of the King’s Music
Acclaimed composer and singer-songwriter has been appointed Master of the King’s Music by King Charles…
British composers feature on Brief Encounters album
Brief Encounters will be released on 10 September on the Meridian label with violist Peter Mallinson and pianist Lynn Arnold. The music contained on this double album will explore pieces of music which, in different ways, confront or embody a notion of brevity. The...
Praise for McCabe film tribute
Several BMS members and friends have enjoyed the July private screening of the John McCabe film tribute…
CONCERT REVIEW: Endless Fascination
The event was something of a marathon, presenting a generous variety of his chamber works alongside a number of miniatures composed in tribute to him…
IAN STEPHENS: Chamber Music
This disc includes five examples of Ian Stephens’ chamber music. The first three works use existing musical material…
IVOR GURNEY: Songs 2
Part of Naxos’s laudable English Song Series, this is the successor to the Gurney disc by Susan Bickley and Iain Burnside from 2009. As such, it may be considered well overdue…
Letter: researching the van Noorden family
The Carl Rosa Trust is searching for information about any living descendants of the van Noorden family…
John W. Duarte: ‘For the joy of it’
‘We made music just for the joy of it’, is a quote, describing the pre-WWII music-making by the British composer, arranger, editor, writer and teacher, John W. Duarte…
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT: Orchestral Works Vol. 5
Slowly the admirable Chandos project to record the complete orchestral works of this composer proceeds…