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
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Various
The more of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s music that becomes available the more it becomes apparent that his tragically early death was a huge loss to the world of music…
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
The enterprising Alto label here does the music world a great service by uniting the two conductors in these previously hard-to-get recordings…
RVW, HOWELLS, DELIUS & ELGAR
If your main interest in this disc is the VW and the Elgar, you would be highly unlikely to be disappointed. These are quite simply magnificent renditions of familiar masterpieces…
Two Violas Now
The booklet supplied with this CD begins by refuting the idea that music for two of the same instruments is rare in musical history…
ROBERT SAXTON: Portrait
This CD has definitely prompted to me look again at Robert Saxton’s whole body of serious work, and I hope it may do the same for many others…
COOKE: Organ Music
Arnold Cooke composed very little organ music before the 1960s; and so most of it dates from the latter part of his life…