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
PARRY, BANTOCK, MAXWELL DAVIES: The English Connection
This beautifully produced SACD unites three disparate English works which are seldom heard in concert, and certainly not on the same programme.
PARRY, ELGAR & JACOB: British Music for Strings 1
This lacklustre trio of prosaic string pieces don’t happily co-exist together, especially under the grandiosely overblown title of this release. An odd mix of works by those well-regarded British composers, Elgar, Parry and Jacob, certainly make uneasy bedfellows…
Heaven Full of Stars: Choral Music
The repertoire of the Vasari Singers under their indefatigable musical director, Jeremy Backhouse, has played a significant role in the commissioning and performance of a considerable quantity of contemporary sacred choral music.
GEORGE DYSON: The Open Window
I have heard it said that Sir George Dyson’s church music is the musical equivalent of the Conservative party at prayer.
It could be thought that some of this piano music, much of it written for young pianists was for nice, suburban middle class children to play on Sunday afternoons.
RICHARD BLACKFORD: Blewbury Air
This brief miniature for cello and piano was written in the summer of 2019 as, in the words of the composer, a “love song” to the village of Blewbury in Oxfordshire where he lives.
Dialogues on Listening, Composing and Culture
Here we have another beautifully produced and thought-provoking text from the Boydell Press. It features on this occasion the music and thought of the composer Julian Anderson, who is internationally known as one of the leading creative spirits of his generation.