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RVW Premiere at music festival
The English Music Festival in May will include the World Premiere of the ‘Richard II’ Concert Fantasy by Ralph Vaughan Williams…
Book records neglected British repertoire
A book charting a personal history of 50 years’ researching and recording neglected British repertoire was launched in late April by publisher Vocalion Books…
Elgar Festival 2024
The Elgar Festival is an annual live celebration of the life and music of Worcester’s most famous son and Britain’s great composer…
Festival discount offer for BMS members
BMS members can buy tickets for events at The London Song Festival Summer Series in June at the concession price of just £15…
COMPOSERS OF BARNES: The Flow of Inspiration
Having spent many hours waiting at the bus stop outside Holst’s house, and having often spotted Stephen Dodgson at the Music Festival, I long knew of both composers’ links with leafy Barnes…
NEWS OF GREAT JOY: Christmas from St John’s College, Oxford
The choir of St John’s College, Oxford and their director David Bannister have combined to produce a sequence of Christmas music which judiciously blends well-known carols such as Gustav Holst’s ‘In the bleak midwinter’ with more unusual repertory…
WILLIAM BUSCH: Chamber Music
This disc starts with a beautifully moving work, the Three pieces for Violin and Piano of 1944, completed only weeks before his oh-so-sudden and early death at the age of 44…
Review: Carlisle Music Society
We were treated to a master class of musicianship by three very experienced and talented musicians, all extremely well known in their specialist fields…
GEORGE LLOYD: The Works for Violin and Piano
For those who associated the composer George Lloyd with his output of symphonies, it will probably be refreshing to hear music that he wrote for his own instrument, the violin…
GRAHAM HAIR: Piano Music
Hair pays a marked tribute to the artistry of the pianist Martin Jones, whose performances of this demanding repertoire are superb…