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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
Bite-Back

Bite-Back: it’s not a second hand book!

Dr Strachan suggests that my ‘assessments of Coleridge-Taylor’s music are likely to be at second hand’. They’re really not…

Grace Williams - The Parlour

The Parlour, an opera in one act by Grace Williams, will be released on 4 July…

Musicians

Cardiff music cuts reversed

Cardiff University has reversed its controversial decision to scrap its music course as part of wide-ranging cuts affecting a range of courses…

News in Brief. Photo by Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

Music news in brief

News in brief including the death of two British conductors and the release of two new CDs from SOMM Recordings…

Ronald Corp with friends

Obituary: Rev. Ronald Corp

Ronald Corp lived a full life as an accomplished musician whose achievements as a conductor and composer earned him an OBE for services to British music…

 Latest features & reviews

HOLST: The Planets and Earth

HOLST: The Planets and Earth

Recent scholarship has delved deeper into Holst’s astonishing cosmos and revealed just how revolutionary this score was for its time. It is important that familiarity does not dull the bravura of his conception…

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BAX: Spring Fire

BAX: Spring Fire

This disc of Bax’s complete music for cello and piano takes its title from the thematic links between that orchestral work and his Cello Sonata. This is a big serious piece…

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The Lancashire Caruso

The Lancashire Caruso

How many British opera singers get a Wetherspoons pub named after them? Not many – but here’s one I stumbled upon when cruising along the Leeds & Liverpool Canal…

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