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
MALCOLM ARNOLD: Orchestral Music
… the musical numbers for a full gastronomic menu including Soup (Brown Windsor), Peach Melba etc. show Arnold’s gift for cinematic painting in glorious technicolor.
HUMPHREY BURTON: In My Own Time
The text is full of fascinating detail, humour and humanity and is further enhanced by judicious use of well-chosen photographic images.
PUER NATUS EST: Christmas Day from Buckfast Abbey
I cannot stress too strongly that the quality of the singing, playing and directing, to say nothing of the wonderfully atmospheric recording, are exceptionally good…
ELISABETH LUTYENS: Piano Music Vol 1
… the works on this new disc all are from the last decade or so of her life when her textures are becoming even more sparse, aphoristic and impressionistic.
WALTON: Symphony No. 1
When I first heard Walton’s Symphony 1 as a 12-year-old I thought it the most cacophonous nonsense. Happily, over the ensuing decades it has become a firm favourite of mine…
EUAN MOSELEY: Piano Topography
These pieces demand a thoroughly accomplished piano virtuoso and with Hungarian pianist Gusztáv Fenyö, now settled in Glasgow, that is exactly what you get…