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
Music and Migration in Georgian Britain: The Story of Feliks Yaniewicz
Read about a musical migrant who settled in Britain in 1790, living in London and Liverpool until he made Edinburgh his home from 1815 until his death in 1848.
YORK BOWEN: Fragments
The revival on CD of Bowen in recent years has been astonishing, although I wonder if he has yet found a wider public…
ENTENTE MUSICALE: Music for Violin and Piano
This carefully designed and interesting programme reflects the cultural warmth which developed in Edwardian times between France and England…
DICKY BIRD HOP: Light Music Classics
This disc is a collection of 22 tracks of the sort of easy-listening music much in vogue in the first half or so of last century.
PETER DICKINSON: Chamber and Instrumental Music
Though the music in this disc stretches from Metamorphosis in 1955 to the 2018 revision of Tranquillo, both for solo violin, its focus is rather more on the earlier part of Peter Dickinson’s compositional life.
COOKE: Chamber Music
These are all outstanding first ever recordings of stunningly well-crafted chamber works. Many have been broadcast before but the Pleyel Ensemble are to be congratulated for being first to give them a more permanent afterlife