BMS AGM

Aug 27, 2021 | News

AGM 2021  All BMS members are welcome to join us online for our 2021 AGM which will be held via Zoom on 4 October at 10am, UK time. Please confirm your attendance in advance by emailing the secretary, Dirick von Behr at secretarybms@outlook.com    How to attend...

BMS stock take sale

Jan 20, 2021 | News

From 1 February to 31 March 2021 the following CDs can be bought online at special prices for BMS members and subscribers to the monthly BMS e-newsletter. All the CDs below have been reduced in price to £5; double and triple CDs are available for £10. These prices...

Monthly music digest

Mar 26, 2024 | News

Our round-up of some of the music-related stories hitting the headlines in the past month. Making the arts more accessible According to the Guardian, Labour leader Keir Starmer has pledged to make the arts more accessible to young people from all backgrounds. In a...

BMS member discount for revised Stanford book

Mar 26, 2024 | News

BMS members can receive a 35% discount when buying a book that sheds new light on Charles Villiers Stanford’s career as a composer, conductor and teacher. Being launched in April, the revised and expanded edition of Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician...

Only the Notes You Need

Mar 23, 2024 | Features

Adam Pounds recalls three years of study with Lennox Berkeley A young composer can often feel ‘lost’, and in 1976, while I was studying at the London College of Music and won the composition prize with my Oboe Quartet, I was sufficiently encouraged by this...

Festival director dies aged 75

Mar 22, 2024 | News

The passing of Music Director Emeritus Stewart Robertson has deeply saddened The Glimmerglass Festival community. Robertson’s connection to Glimmerglass was deeply rooted in the sense of creative fulfillment and purpose he felt within the Festival’s unique...

GEORGE LLOYD: The Symphonies Nos. 7-12

Mar 22, 2024 | CD reviews

BBC Philharmonic Philharmonia Orchestra BBC Philharmonic Brass Albany Symphony Orchestra George Lloyd conductor LYRITA SRCD 2418  It is an extraordinary journey to hear the whole of George Lloyd’s symphonies over a single period of time, a...

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A Birthday Garland

Mar 22, 2024 | CD reviews

Roderick Williams baritoneSusie Allan piano SOMM 0683 It seems that Roderick Williams is never out of the recording studio, but this disc is more special as he has conceived it both as a CD and as a complete recital. He explains in the excellent booklet notes (also...

CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: Shamus O’Brien

Mar 21, 2024 | CD reviews

Retrospect OperaThe Orchestra of Scottish OperaDavid Parry conductor and the spoken role of Sergeant Cox Opera Bohemia Voices chorus RETROSPECT OPERA  RO011 Shamus O’Brien, first performed in 1896, was Stanford’s most successful opera. Well-known names of the...

MICHAEL FINNISSY: Alternative Readings

Mar 21, 2024 | CD reviews

Marsyas TrioLotte Betts-Dean mezzo-sopranoJoseph Havlet piano METIER MEX 77102 Michael Finnissy is one of the most articulate and prolific composers of his generation, generally bracketed with other pioneers who have soldiered for decades under the dauntingly...

DUO MENURIDA: In Two Minds

Mar 21, 2024 | CD reviews

Laura Chislett flutesEdward Cowie piano métier  mex 77121 Menurida is the Latin family name of the Australian Lyrebird. From there comes the name of the flute and piano duo bringing together Australian flute virtuoso Laura Chislett and composer Edward Cowie, born...

ELISABETH LUTYENS: Piano Music Volume 3

Mar 20, 2024 | CD reviews

Martin Jones Resonus  RES10331 In the book A Pilgrim Soul by Meirion and Susie Harries (Michael Joseph 1989) they write ‘Few people consider Lizzie’s piano works to be amongst her best, she herself felt she did not really understand the instrument’. But Martin...