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Joseph Horovitz celebrates 95th birthday
Members of the BMS will surely wish to congratulate composer Joseph Horovitz on celebrating his 95th birthday on 26 May.
Howells’s piano music at festival
Matthew Schellhorn recital to feature music from recent BMS CD.
Musical obituaries
Soprano Pauline Tinsley, conductor Malcolm Goldring and composer Anthony Payne are among those in the musical world who have died recently…
35% off new books
Two new publications by Boydell & Brewer are available online to members at a special discount of 35%
G&S Festival returns
The International G&S Festival is raring to go this summer.
A tribute to Christopher Ball
The composer Christopher Ball, who died in April 2022, had no fewer than six musical careers, successively as clarinettist, orchestral conductor, recorder player, publisher, arranger and composer…
CHRISTMASTIDE
Here is a Christmas disc that is just that little bit different; it contains arrangements to which it is well worth paying attention…
REED: String Quartets
‘Billy’ Reed is mostly remembered now as the friend and adviser to Elgar; but as this valuable release demonstrates he was also a composer…
BARRY MILLS: Portraits / Caledonia
The use of rhythm and instrumentation is graphic in its impact. Some of the music is for all three instruments but there are duos and sections of piano solo too. The result suggested a kind of musical pointillism…
EDWARD COWIE: Streams and Particles
Edward Cowie is very much a Renaissance Man. In addition to being a composer of talent, he has expertise in physics, fine arts and Japanese literature.