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Bite-Back: selling CDs as recorded music evolves
After reading our recent article about the changing world of recorded music, a BMS member asks how to sell a CD collection…
Concert celebrates Bradford’s forgotten composer
The life and music of the forgotten Bradford composer Frederic Cliffe will be remembered at a special concert taking place next month…
Obituary: Raymond Warren
Professor Raymond Warren, who has died aged 96, was part of that Interwar generation of British composers that owed a stylistic debt to Tippett and Britten…
British composers featured in new releases
Toccata Classics will launch two new releases of music by British composers including Arnold Cooke and Charles Harford Lloyd…
University seeks applications for British music research
Following the reversal of the decision to close the Music Department at Cardiff University, new PhD Studentships in research have been announced. Two doctoral Studentships are being offered for research relating to any aspect of musicology, composition, research-led...
Seeking that one elusive record!
I was very interested in the discussion on CD and vinyl collections. The member who asked for advice on what to do with CDs also mentioned the ridiculous prices asked for LPs…
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphonies 5 & 9
There is (of course) the dreaded acoustic of the Barbican Concert Hall to contend with, but especially in No 5 I felt the engineers had done very well in presenting the music clearly and atmospherically…
TIPPETT, BRITTEN & WALTON
A beautifully recorded disc, and an intriguing programme, with some superb playing…
EDWARD COWIE: Because They Have Songs
Why do birds sing? – Because They Have Songs.’ Edward Cowie takes that answer from an African text as the title for the fourth in his series of compositions inspired by birdsong…
BLISS: Miracle in the Gorbals | Metamorphic Variations
Well – in a word, this is superb. You only need to listen to the opening of the ballet to hear timpani thwacks which, were you playing the recording on an LP, would have the stylus jumping out of the groove…