Bringing Britain’s musical heritage alive
Founded in 1979, the British Music Society is dedicated to promoting and preserving Britain’s musical heritage with particular emphasis on 20th century composers through recordings, publications and events
Latest features & reviews
NARESH SOHAL: The Wanderer & Asht Prahar
Sohal was born to a non-musical family in the Punjab and came to England in 1962 to study. It is amazing to think that the highly accomplished Asht Prahar from 1969 was his first orchestral work…
PETER JACOBS: Anthology Vol 2
Peter Jacobs has a long history of recording British piano music, and this is his latest anthology for the Heritage Label. As he says, this is a personal selection…
IAN STEPHENS: Chamber Music
This disc includes five examples of Ian Stephens’ chamber music. The first three works use existing musical material…
IVOR GURNEY: Songs 2
Part of Naxos’s laudable English Song Series, this is the successor to the Gurney disc by Susan Bickley and Iain Burnside from 2009. As such, it may be considered well overdue…
John W. Duarte: ‘For the joy of it’
‘We made music just for the joy of it’, is a quote, describing the pre-WWII music-making by the British composer, arranger, editor, writer and teacher, John W. Duarte…
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…