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English Music Festival unveils programme
The 15th English Music Festival returns to Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire on the 27 – 29 May opening with the BBC Concert Orchestra…
Violinist launches RVW150 project
Violinist, writer and composer Midori Komachi is on a mission to bring the music of British composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, to a wider audience…
Obituary: Lyell Cresswell
We regret to announce the death of composer Lyell Cresswell, who was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1944…
Astronomy & Music: Herschel 200
2022 is the bicentenary year of the death of celebrated astronomer and composer William Herschel…
A tribute: George Odam
Composer, writer and lecturer, George Odam’s life in music was inspired at an early age…
John Joubert: First and Last Songs
My father John Joubert died in January 2019. Just before he died I had written in my diary ‘tidy Dad’s study’ as it was badly in need of sorting out…
Ivy Parkin
Cellist seeks information about composer and concert pianist Ivy Parkin.
Vaughan Williams in Manchester
How appropriate that in Ralph Vaughan William’s 150th anniversary year this performance of his extraordinary Sinfonia Antartica should take place just a few streets away from Manchester’s former Free Trade Hall…
NOW THE GREEN BLADE RISETH
The 18 items on the CD take the listener on a journey from Palm Sunday, through the Crucifixion to the Resurrection and the Glory of the Risen Christ…
HORN CONCERTOS
This new disc by the prodigiously gifted Ben Goldscheider includes two of the great concertos for French Horn…