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
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.
An appreciation: Marcus Blunt
Marcus has left us with a significant body of well-crafted, considered music that shows him to have a distinctive voice. Deeply inspired by Scriabin, he cultivated and refined his own harmonic language…
ALEC ROWLEY: Piano Works
Although there are other CDs which include individual works, this is the first devoted entirely to Rowley…
JOHN IRELAND: Orchestral Music
Despite one or two reservations, this is a hugely welcome issue of most on John Ireland’s works for orchestra, from a conductor and orchestra who can seemingly do little wrong…
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet
There is such skill and maturity in every aspect of the writing. Then one remembers that the composer was only 18 when he wrote them, and the work becomes even more astonishing…