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Obituary: Garry Humphreys
Garry Humphreys, baritone, conductor, writer, researcher, and business librarian, has died aged 79…
Bite-Back: it’s not a second hand book!
Dr Strachan suggests that my ‘assessments of Coleridge-Taylor’s music are likely to be at second hand’. They’re really not…
July release for one act opera
The Parlour, an opera in one act by Grace Williams, will be released on 4 July…
Cardiff music cuts reversed
Cardiff University has reversed its controversial decision to scrap its music course as part of wide-ranging cuts affecting a range of courses…
Music news in brief
News in brief including the death of two British conductors and the release of two new CDs from SOMM Recordings…
CIPRIANI POTTER: Complete Symphonies Vol. 3
Both British music research and musical life pay surprisingly little attention to 19th-century British music. This has hardly changed since a few epoch-making writings…
Lost works of Ailsa Dixon discovered and recorded
After a series of posthumous premieres of works found in her musical archive, the resurgence of interest in Ailsa Dixon’s music is now being marked by a new recording of her chamber music…
THE SILENT POOL: British Piano Music by Women Composers
Peter Jacobs is the doyen of British pianists, and those who admire the keyboard music of British composers have particular cause to be grateful for his tireless work in making so much neglected repertoire better known…
FULL OF GRACE: Choral music by James Woodhall
The main work is The Damascus Road, which is the biblical account of Saul’s conversion, his encounter with God, being struck blind, and becoming Paul…
RVW, GRAINGER, GRANVILLE-HICKS, RAYNOR: I have lived & loved
The main work here is Vaughan-Williams’ famous Songs of Travel. Now, I know what you’re thinking, especially as a BMS member; why should you purchase this disc with another version of the Songs of Travel…