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World premiere to support charity
BMS member Paul Henley will present the World Première of his new work for String Orchestra, To the Gentle Light in September…
THE MUSIC OF FREDERICK DELIUS
If all you knew of Delius was Brigg Fair you would think he was an English composer. If all you knew was Appalachia or the Florida Suite you would think he was an unusually good American one. If it were the Song of the High Hills, then Norwegian…
Digitising the BMS Journals
An exciting new project to digitise all articles from all existing BMS Journals has started…
Obituary: David Beck
Despite, or perhaps because of, sharing a surname with Swiss, German, American and Canadian composers, the British composer David Beck remained for much of his life in the shadows as an orchestral violinist…
New titles from Goodmusic
Music publisher Goodmusic has recently published around 100 new works, almost all of which are British.
SIMON MOLD: Passiontide
BORENSTEIN: Piano Concerto / Shirim / Light & Darkness
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Various
The more of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s music that becomes available the more it becomes apparent that his tragically early death was a huge loss to the world of music…
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
The enterprising Alto label here does the music world a great service by uniting the two conductors in these previously hard-to-get recordings…
RVW, HOWELLS, DELIUS & ELGAR
If your main interest in this disc is the VW and the Elgar, you would be highly unlikely to be disappointed. These are quite simply magnificent renditions of familiar masterpieces…