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Monthly Arts Digest
Arts funding cuts by one county council and the impact of AI on classical music were in the news last month…

Concert to celebrate Anthony Gilbert
To celebrate the life and achievements of distinguished composer Anthony Gilbert there will be a concert in April…

Launch of new book of Thomas Pitfield
Forsyths are publishing a lavishly illustrated 500 page hardback book about the composer Thomas Pitfield…

Rare Alan Bush performance
A rarely heard piece of music by Alan Bush was performed by BMS member Dominic Daula at a festival in Cape Town last autumn…

Richard Lambert CD launched
Toccata Classics has launched a CD of the choral music of Richard Lambert…

Mad Kings and Magic Squares
Max has said that his first musical memory of attending a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers when he was four was the event that put him on the road to becoming a composer…

SPLENDID TEARS: Settings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Brian Thornsett is a lyrical and suitably light tenor, ideal in many ways for this repertoire. I am less convinced by his timbre in the highest and loudest passages…

GERARD SCHURMANN: Orchestral Works
Gerard Schurmann was born in Java in January 1924, so in this, his centenary year, Chandos have brought out a disc of four fascinating works…

GEORGE LLOYD: Symphonies 7-12
Lloyd is a natural symphonist in the sense that he can create works, often large in scale, which are full of invention and variety…

THOMAS PITFIELD: His Friends and Contemporaries
The first item (a two-disc set) juxtaposes Pitfield’s works with those of his contemporaries and friends, and is a delight…