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Composer Sir James MacMillan receives award
An Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society is awarded to Sir James MacMillan ahead of its annual awards this month…
Anoushka Shankar releases new album
Eleven-time Grammy-nominated sitarist, composer and producer, Anoushka Shankar releases a new album in March…
Wilfred Heaton: His Life, His Music
This is a remarkable story of a pioneering composer who wrote largely for brass bands, yet considered that they were, in general, not fully committed to serious music…
New release features long forgotten Elgar recordings
The continuing collaboration of SOMM Recordings and Lani Spahr has produced another release of long forgotten and neglected recordings of Elgar’s music…
Music news in brief
An historic music library – the largest in the North of England – reopened in January after undergoing a major redevelopment…
GRACE WILLIAMS: The Parlour
One remarkable feature of the work is the fact that Williams wrote her own libretto and made an excellent job of it, using some very sophisticated rhyme schemes…
THOMAS PITFIELD: Orchestral Music
Pitfield supporters during his lifetime boasted Sir John Barbirolli, David Ellis (Head of Music for Radio 3 North), Leo Black (BBC Radio 3 producer), as well as many performers…
THE LIVING FIRE
…in his note on the recording the Director of Music, Benjamin Sheen, makes the point that the college continues ‘provide a platform for emerging artists from within the College community to showcase their work..
EVERLASTING LIGHT
This CD is being issued to mark the 125th anniversary of the Bath Abbey Boys Choir. The programme is an enterprising blend of well-known choral items with others which are much less familiar…
THOMAS PITFIELD: Piano Music
Slowly the music of Thomas Pitfield is emerging from obscurity: following occasional recordings there has recently been a critical biography, and a two-CD set of his chamber works from the admirable Heritage label; while a disc of orchestral pieces is imminent from Toccata…