RUTH GIPPS: Orchestral Works, Volume 2
BBC PhilharmonicRumon Gamba conductor CHANDOS 20161 Chandos continue (and long may they do so) to present the works of composers now emerging from the omerta ( criminal conspiracy) caused by last century’s single-minded promotion of serialism and atonality, imposed by...
ELISABETH LUTYENS: Organ Music
Tom Winpenny organ Dewi Rees organPhilippa Boyle soprano TOCCATA CLASSICS TOCC 0639 Elisabeth Lutyens’s music is now emerging from the doldrums. Recently, a disc of her piano music has been issued and here, surprisingly, is a disc of works for organ,...
Malcolm Arnold Festival 2022
One of England’s most colourful and charismatic composers – Sir Malcolm Arnold – is to be celebrated across three days in October during the 17th International Malcolm Arnold Festival. This annual programme of events is centred around the multi-faceted...
Discovering Reason
Jessy Lilian Reason (nee Wolton) was born in Balham, South London, in June 1878 (baptised, 21 June) and lived in Streatham for the next two decades. In the spring of 1902 she married Richard George Reason, a man 20 years her senior, in Penzance, Cornwall and they took...
Searching for Quilter
Dear BMS,I am a student at the Krakow Academy of Music in Poland, and I want to study the art songs of the composer Roger Quilter. But I can’t find the sheet music for the following piece: ‘Spring Voices’Text Romney Marsh (pseudonym for...
Leonard Salzedo celebration concert
‘He’s due for a serious revival!’ So says Leslie Howard at the end of Leonard Salzedo, a Life Composed in Music, the film Leonard’s daughter Caroline made about her father for his centenary last year. To kick start this, the Leonard Salzedo Society is organising a...
An appreciation: Marcus Blunt
I was deeply saddened to learn that the wonderful composer Marcus Blunt passed away on 21 July after a long illness bravely borne. Marcus has left us with a significant body of well-crafted, considered music that shows him to have a distinctive voice. Deeply inspired...
BMS AGM 2022
The British Music Society AGM 2022 will be held at the Birmingham & Midland Institute on 29 October. BMS members can attend in person or join in via Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent out nearer the time together with the agenda. BMS AGM 202229 October 2022,...