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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
BLISS: Works for Brass Band
As Master of the Queen’s Musick (he liked the old spelling), Sir Arthur Bliss was required to write much ceremonial music for brass instruments…
GEORGE LLOYD: Symphonies 1-6
I seem to remember an essay title, when I was an undergraduate studying music, which read The symphony is dead. Discuss. Well, if that was a serious viewpoint in the early 1970’s it was seriously exaggerated…
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: Te Deum & Elegiac Ode
Lyrita now complete the set of the major choral works with the Te Deum Op.66 written for the Leeds Festival (and its famed chorus) to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1898…
ANTHONY PAYNE: Visions and Journeys
Not only is this disc a tribute to Anthony Payne, but it can also be considered a memorial to the late Sir Andrew Davis…
GEORGE LLOYD: The Works for Brass
The wonderful Lyrita edition of Lloyd’s recorded works continues with this well filled disc of his music for brass…
STEVE ELCOCK: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 8
Composer Steve Elcock is living proof that we should never give up hope. As he outlines on his website, he wrote music with seemingly no hope of it being performed…