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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: The Composer Conducts
Sir Arthur Bliss was an excellent conductor of his own music, but surprisingly he made very few commercial recordings. SOMM here celebrates the 50th anniversary of his death…
Remembering Anthony Gilbert
July 5th marks the second anniversary of the passing of celebrated composer and longtime Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) composition professor Anthony ‘Tony’ Gilbert…
THOMAS PITFIELD: Orchestral Music
This important release builds on the success of the recordings of Thomas Pitfield’s chamber and vocal music that recently appeared on the Divine Art label…
BRIAN ANDREW INGLIS: To Byzantium and Beyond
The two electronic pieces on this fascinating disc might be described as mood music of the kind that is regularly encountered on Radio 3’s Night Tracks…
Panufnik Legacies IV
This is the fourth CD resulting from the LSO’s Discovery programme showcasing new composers, guided by Colin Matthews (whose own mastery of orchestration was doubtless most useful)…
When I was One-and-Twenty: English Song
The background to this disc is given in its subtitle ‘A celebration of love and the English Landscape underpinned by the poetry of A.E.Housman’…