from the British Music Society
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Society seeks Digital Marketing Manager
The Malcolm Arnold Society is keen to find an experienced digital media person for the voluntary role of Digital Marketing Manager…
British composers feature in two album launches
This unique and groundbreaking new classical music album is the first of its kind devoted entirely to new music written for the woodwind orchestra…
January 2024 news digest
A look at some of the stories and issues affecting the musical world including ENO on the move and a big sale at the Royal Albert Hall…
Bite-Back: CD reviews – dead or alive?
I was pleased to see Dr Maxwell’s letter in the December E-News… because it raises some interesting points regarding the original formation of the British Music Society…
Three Choirs celebrates anniversaries
Lesser known repertoire by mostly British composers including Stanford and Holst feature in the newly released evening programmes for the 2024 Three Choirs Festival…
GEORGE BENJAMIN: Picture a Day Like This
This is the composer’s fourth collaboration with playwright Martin Crimp, and it is their most compact and, to my mind, most successful piece yet…
RUTH GIPPS: Piper of Dreams
Decades ago the best chance of hearing the music of Ruth Gipps was to attend her occasional and often adventurous concerts. Now her discography is expanding rapidly, not least thanks to this label and this soloist…
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Early and Late Works
This is an interesting (well, in parts) addition to the recorded library of VW’s music, and the music is unfailingly recorded and played…
SIÂN PHILIPPS & PER RUNDBERG: From Shadows to Light
The composers chosen by Siân Philipps for this CD explore what it means to be ‘an outsider on the margins’…
EDWARD COWIE: Rutherford’s Light
I was hit by a kind of musical shock and awe. Further listening brought lucidity and a sense of wonderment at the multicoloured pianistic details that shone through…