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
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…
GEORGE LLOYD: Requiem / Psalm 130
George Lloyd finished his final score, the Requiem for counter-tenor, choir and organ, just a month before his death in 1998. Dedicated to the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, it is a work on a grand scale…
GEORGE LLOYD: A Symphonic Mass / A Litany
This latest release of choral music continues the excellent partnership between the Wyastone Estate and the George Lloyd Society which will see all of the old Albany discs released under the Lyrita label…
KENNETH V. JONES: Chamber Music
Throughout there is intriguing use of hushed echo effects and flutter-tonguing, while the finale picks up the tempo to achieve a rather abrupt ‘Ta Da!’ positive conclusion…