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
COMPOSERS OF BARNES: The Flow of Inspiration
Having spent many hours waiting at the bus stop outside Holst’s house, and having often spotted Stephen Dodgson at the Music Festival, I long knew of both composers’ links with leafy Barnes…
STEPHEN DODGSON: Mirage
Stephen Dodgson was an accomplished and highly professional composer whose music, for some unaccountable reason, did not attract the attention it deserved…
THOMAS PITFIELD: Songs
Pitfield was an artist, engraver, calligrapher, furniture builder and teacher, and I now know he was a fine composer of songs…
FREDERICK DELIUS: Hassan
Though I am willing to be corrected, I think this is the first time that the whole of the Hassan score has been recorded, though some excerpts are of course very familiar…
DANZA GAYA: Music for Two Pianos
The majority of the music on this disc is by Madeline Dring, a prodigiously gifted musician who died far too young of a cerebral haemorrhage…
BORN BY THE THAMES
Dodgson, a distant cousin to Lewis Carroll, was a prolific and highly accomplished composer whose lyrical and approachable output has not yet had its due…