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
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British Music for Strings III
None of this music is likely to set the Thames on fire, but it is all eminently agreeable without quite being eminent. Much of it is slow, which is just as well as Bostock is clearly happier with slow music…
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Earth’s Wide Bounds
Naturally the 150th anniversary of RVW’s birth provides an opportunity to plug some gaps in the recorded repertoire, and to feature other less well-known items…
No Ordinary Joe – obituary of Joseph Horovitz
I met Joseph Horovitz more than 25 years ago… I was immediately struck by his voice; his English, even 50 years after leaving Vienna, had a wonderful musical lilt to it.
Full of The Highland Humours
This is a thoroughly entertaining CD from its beginning with Oswald’s The Poppy to the final piece, Robert Bremner’s spring-heeled variations on a traditional highland dance…
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Folk Songs Volume 4
This CD marks the release of the fourth and final volume of the Complete Folk Song Arrangements by Ralph Vaughan Williams, appropriately it turns out in 2022, which marks the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth…
ROBIN STEVENS: Music for cello & piano
Several of the twenty numbered items on this CD reveal Robin Stevens to be a very individual and exploratory composer…