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Dionysus Ensemble record John Joubert’s Octet
The Dionysus Ensemble has released the premiere recording online of John Joubert’s Octet…
Two new albums to be released by NMC Recordings
NMC Recordings has announced the furthcoming release of two albums featuring music by the award-winning composer Martin Iddon and an album of works for cello performed by Clare O’Connell as part of NMC’s Artist Series. The albums are: Martin Iddon: HesperidesQuiet...
Bliss anniversary celebrated during 2025
In recognition of 2025 marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Arthur Bliss, more than 100 performances of 46 works by the composer are planned so far this year…
English Music Festival returns to Dorchester Abbey
The 18th annual English Music Festival will feature the long-awaited World Première performance of the Symphony no.2 by the composer Stanley Bate…
US festival features Sir James MacMillan
The Sir James MacMillan Festival will take place from 31 March to 7 April in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota…
WALTON: Orchestral Works
The violin concerto is of course a superb work reflecting Waltons’ mood of the time when his new relationship with Lady Alice Wimborne was taking flight…
NARESH SOHAL: Lila; Violin Concerto
Lila is a cycle of seven connected movements and the Violin Concerto is in the three movements; these are major canvases by this wrongly overlooked master composer…
SHIFT: Works for Trombone and Brass Band
Simon Dobson’s three-movement concerto from 2012 entitled Shift… is a tremendously exciting work, the outer two movements being full of high energy and seemingly impossible scoring…
HAVERGAL BRIAN: Symphonies Nos. 29, 30, 31 & 32
The compact Symphony 30 is one of Brian’s most enigmatic. The only way to grasp this intense, dramatic, often violent music is to decode its densely-layered meaning bar by bar…
EDWARD COWIE: Rock Music (Piano Sonatas 1-3)
Do not be misled by the title Rock Music. It refers not to rock n’ roll music, but to piano music born out of rumination on different types of rock, rock out of which our planet is built…