Tell us about your event
We are delighted that lots of performers, organisations, festivals and others have contacted us using the new ONLINE FORM to tell us about their event. Most of these are now up on the BMS website under CONCERTS. When you let us know about your event please ensure you...
Let’s go digital!
Everything is going up! Help the BMS to be more environmentally friendly and reduce its printing and postage costs by going paperless and receiving the BMS Journal digitally. BMS members now have the option of receiving the annual BMS Journal as a PDF attached to an...
Label to pay tribute to post 1918 British music
A tribute to post-1918 British sacred music is being released this month on the Australian based Ars Organi label. It pays eloquent homage to the substantial body of organ solos, carols, and anthems produced in Britain after 1918. This is the fourth CD from organist...
Concert review: Britten Sinfonia
4 May 2022, Barbican Centre, London This was brilliant programming by the Britten Sinfonia, and although the concert going public did not turn out in force (the Barbican barely a quarter full), it was good to know at least some British Music Society members were in...
British music at High Barnet festival
A charity concert for Ukraine, a full orchestral concert and three chamber music recitals with award-winning artists make up this year’s High Barnet Chamber Music Festival which runs from July 2 to 17. After last year’s sell-out and critically acclaimed inaugural...
PHILIP WILBY: An English Passion
An English Passion according to Saint Matthew RESONUS 10298 It just needs just two words with which to welcome this issue – it is absolutely splendid. Philip Wilby was a violinist in the National Youth Orchestra, a pupil of Howells, and ultimately Professor of...
Festival promises a Feast of Midsummer Music
Gregynog Festival returns with a feast of Midsummer music in the handsome setting of Gregynog Hall near Newtown in north Powys from 25 to 26 June 2022 with many of the events having a focus on British music. Gregynog Hall near Newtown is the setting for the summer...
Delius Society celebrates 60th
The Delius Society celebrates its 60th anniversary with a special concert at the Royal Academy of Music on 26 June. Alongside recently re-discovered works by Frederick Delius, the concert will feature three new works specially commissioned by the Society from leading...