BORN BY THE THAMES

BORN BY THE THAMES

Apr 23, 2024 | Book reviews, Reviews

Stephen Dodgson: a centenary celebration ed. Oliver Chandler & Thomas Hyde DE LA PORTEISBN 978-1-8383269-1-3 A first-rate volume, carefully crafted to appeal to both the average music-lover and the professional seeking more detailed information, this immediately...
New hymn written for Music Sunday

New hymn written for Music Sunday

Apr 23, 2024 | News

Award-winning British composer Thomas Hewitt Jones has written a brand new hymn especially for the Royal School of Church Music’s Big Hymn Sing for Music Sunday.  With words by Dr Gordon Giles, Canon Chancellor of Rochester Cathedral, Sing to the Lord, a new...
Summer Music in City Churches

Summer Music in City Churches

Apr 23, 2024 | News

Ten days of concerts of beautiful music, programmed around themes of love, romance and Shakespeare are promised at the Summer Music in City Churches Festival.  Hosted this summer in the historic church of St Giles-without-Cripplegate within London’s Square Mile...
GEORGE LLOYD: Requiem / Psalm 130

GEORGE LLOYD: Requiem / Psalm 130

Apr 23, 2024 | CD reviews

The Exon SingersMatthew Owens conductor Lyrita SRCD.420 George Lloyd finished his final score, the Requiem for counter-tenor, choir and organ, just a month before his death in 1998. Dedicated to the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, it is a work on a grand scale,...
A piano for Music at Stow

A piano for Music at Stow

Apr 23, 2024 | News

Music at Stow has started a crowdfunding project for which they hope to raise £25,000 to fund a new grand piano which will reside at St Edward’s Church, Stow. Not only will a new instrument assist in bringing top class musicians to Stow for concerts organised by...