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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…
GEORGE LLOYD: The Piano Works Solo & Duo
As a violinist, Lloyd was inevitably more drawn to stringed instruments rather than the keyboard and did not compose his first work for piano until he was 53…
RVW work published by BMS member
BMS member Frank James Staneck has announced the publication of his violin and piano arrangement of Charterhouse Suite…
Archive RVW recordings to be released on CD
An ‘archive’ recording comprising remastered LP and 78 rpm discs is being launched in early September…
WALTON: Orchestral Works
The violin concerto is of course a superb work reflecting Waltons’ mood of the time when his new relationship with Lady Alice Wimborne was taking flight…
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…