Obituary: composer and BMS member Christopher Wright
1954 – 2024 The composer and loyal BMS member Christopher Wright died on 4th December 2024 of pneumonia, following a sad decline into dementia during the past year. Chris was born in Ipswich on 30 April 1954 and started composing in his teens, his earliest...
National Youth Choir album to launch in January
The sixth instalment of the Young Composers series with the National Youth Choir will be released by NMC Recordings on 31 January 2025. The recording features pieces by the four 2024 National Youth Choir Young Composers: Jamie Powe, Crystalla Serghiou, Áine Mallon and...
HOLST: Fide Et Literis
Paulina VoicesEm Marshall-Luck reciterBBC Concert OrchestraLeigh O’Hara conductor EM RECORDS EMR CD090 Fide Et Literis (By Faith and Learning) is the motto of St Paul’s Girl’s School in Hammersmith, and this disc explores music Gustav Holst, their famous teacher,...
RUTH GIPPS: Orchestral Music Volume 3
Martin Owen hornBBC PhilharmonicRumon Gamba conductor CHANDOS CHAN 20284 Chandos continue with their support and promotion of this quite unjustifiably neglected composer, with only the last, and fifth, of her symphonies now needing recording. Having enjoyed the...
DISTANT VOICES, NEW WORLDS
Songs, Landscapes and Histories The New Music Players The Orchestra of Sound and Light métier mex 77131 On this single CD, you will find a multicoloured festoon of contemporary composer styles, many of their works recalling English Early Music; in two cases, the...
Composer Robin Field dies at 88
1935 – 2024The English composer Robin Field has died aged 88. He belongs to that fascinating – and still massively underrated – generation of British composers born in the 1920s and 1930s that includes Arthur Butterworth, Doreen Carwithen, John Joubert,...
Premiere commemorates shipping disaster
The City of London-based Lloyd’s Choir annual spring concert on 27 March at St Giles Cripplegate Church will feature the premiere of a new choral work commemorating the sinking of HMT Lancastria. 2025 will mark the 85th anniversary of this terrible event which...
Save the date: BMS AGM 2025
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