Two British labels announce CD launches

Two British labels announce CD launches

NMC Recordings partner labels Birmingham Record Company and Huddersfield Contemporary Records have announced the following recent and forthcoming CD releases: Too Many Sweets is a portrait album showcasing the work of composer Benjamin Oliver Diversed Tapes features...
BMS recording August launch

BMS recording August launch

BMS members are invited to join baritone Jeremy Huw Williams and pianist Wendy Hiscocks at this year’s Welsh Eisteddfod for the official Naxos launch of our next recording. Signings of the Grace Williams song CD by the artists will be available at the Ty Cerdd stand,...
RSCM marks centenary of Stanford’s death

RSCM marks centenary of Stanford’s death

The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) marks the centenary of Charles Villiers Stanford’s death with a series of special events Charles Villiers Stanford, one of the great choral composers of the late 19th/early 20th century, died on 29 March 1924. As executors of...
The Triumph of Time

The Triumph of Time

A personal celebration by Jack Van Zandt of Harrison Birtwistle on his 90th birthday One day in 1953, Harrison “Harry” Birtwistle travelled with his friends Alexander “Sandy” Goehr and Peter Maxwell “Max” Davies to London from Manchester, where they were fellow...
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: Orchestral Songs

CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: Orchestral Songs

Sharon Carty mezzo sopranoMorgan Pearse baritoneBBC SingersBBC Concert OrchestraJohn Andrews conductor RESONUS RES10345 CVS of course crops up in the biographies of his many successful pupils who forged newer forms of expression, though with his own basically late...