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Jury for youth music contest announced
The jury panel for the 4th New Talent British International Youth Music Competition has been announced…
Award for baroque violinist
The wife of BMS President Raphael Wallfisch has been awarded the Telemann prize…
Ernest John MOERAN: His Life and Music
I would go as far as to say this is one of the best books of its type I have ever come across, and up there with, say, Lewis Foreman’s Bax…
BMS Essay Competition
The closing date for entries for the second British Music Society Essay Competition 2021 is 30 September 2021
Leading opera director dies
Leading opera director Sir Graham Vick has died suddenly at the age of 67.
Two Violas Now
The booklet supplied with this CD begins by refuting the idea that music for two of the same instruments is rare in musical history…
ROBERT SAXTON: Portrait
This CD has definitely prompted to me look again at Robert Saxton’s whole body of serious work, and I hope it may do the same for many others…
COOKE: Organ Music
Arnold Cooke composed very little organ music before the 1960s; and so most of it dates from the latter part of his life…
Carols from King’s
Did you watch or listen to Carols from King’s this year? If so, you are one of many millions of people around the world who have been tuning in for nearly a century…
MACFARREN: The Soldier’s Legacy
The Soldier’s Legacy is a chamber opera in two acts with piano accompaniment and just four characters. There is also a small part for harmonium depicting the voice of Bully, the bullfinch, a caged bird…