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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
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From Sheffield orphan to distinguished musician
On a recent visit to the city of Sheffield – the city of Steel – my attention was struck by an impressive monument in the Cathedral commemorating Sir William Sterndale Bennett which led to some interesting local research…
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade
Serenade is due for release on 12 October 2022, the 150th birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Here are 19 tracks, some of them, though by no means all, from minor works…
ELGAR: Complete Organ Works
This interesting and attractive CD contains just two works which Elgar composed specifically for organ: the Organ Sonata No.1 in G major, Op.28, and Vesper Voluntaries, Op.14…
RUTH GIPPS: Orchestral Works, Volume 2
It is interesting to note that this pupil of RVW composed with a recognisable style and technique from the very start. There is a mastery of all the elements of composition…
ELISABETH LUTYENS: Organ Music
Elisabeth Lutyens’s music is now emerging from the doldrums. Recently, a disc of her piano music has been issued and here, surprisingly, is a disc of works for organ, and soprano and organ. On looking through her 1972 autobiography A Goldfish Bowl she mentions nothing of them…
Leonard Salzedo celebration concert
‘He’s due for a serious revival!’ So says Leslie Howard at the end of Leonard Salzedo, a Life Composed in Music, the film Leonard’s daughter Caroline made about her father for his centenary last year.