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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
Latest features & reviews
Vaughan Williams in Manchester
How appropriate that in Ralph Vaughan William’s 150th anniversary year this performance of his extraordinary Sinfonia Antartica should take place just a few streets away from Manchester’s former Free Trade Hall…
NOW THE GREEN BLADE RISETH
The 18 items on the CD take the listener on a journey from Palm Sunday, through the Crucifixion to the Resurrection and the Glory of the Risen Christ…
HORN CONCERTOS
This new disc by the prodigiously gifted Ben Goldscheider includes two of the great concertos for French Horn…
IAN KING: Music for Gloucester Cathedral
… the work that really struck home to me was The Christmas Truce, King’s setting of the words of a powerful, almost filmic poem, by Carol Ann Duffy…
BACH INSPIRED
Six newly-commissioned choral pieces sit alongside six chorales from the Passion. These chorales act as centres of inspiration for our six young composers…
BRITISH PIANO CONCERTOS
The general tenor throughout most of the disc can be described, oxymoronically perhaps, as ‘light’ music with dissonance…