The Recorded History of a Madrigal: The Silver Swan (Orlando Gibbons, 1612)
2025 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of one of England’s best-known composers of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean…
Carnegie Trust Edition Recordings
In 1916, the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust announced the launch of a new ‘Carnegie Edition’, an initiative proposed by Sir…
NYC at 5: Young Composers 3 (2020-21)
Derri Joseph Lewis, Kristina Arakelyan, Anna Disley-Simpson, Alex Ho The third group of young composers to enjoy the NYC’s mentorship…
International Women’s Day 2024 (Young Composers 1, 2018–19)
NYC at 5: Young Composers 2018-19 It is an immense pleasure on International Women’s Day to mark the achievements of…
NYC at 5: Introduction
Introduction Give or take a few weeks, it is five years since we began our association with the National Youth…
Q&A with Ben Parry
We are delighted to have issued three new choral pieces this summer by the multi-talented composer, conductor and singer Ben…
The Messiah XI
Eleanor Oldroyd’s recent BBC Radio 4 programme – Perfect Pitch (From Choir Stalls to Cricket Balls) – was a fascinating exploration…
Thomas Weelkes: Hidden in Plain Sight
Anticipation is growing ahead of the 400th anniversary next year of the death of William Byrd on 4 July 1623,…
Q&A with Shruthi Rajasekar
If you see something that doesn’t look right, speak to staff or text British Transport Police on 61016. We’ll sort…
‘Eminent Distinction’: Refugees and Internees in Wartime Britain
At the end of January 1937, Ralph Vaughan Williams sent a letter to Frau Stephanie Pinthus in Nordhausen am Harz…
Q&A with Russell Hepplewhite and Helen Eastman
We’re very excited to welcome Russell Hepplewhite and Helen Eastman to the second in our composer “Q&A” series! Russell and…
Music for Body, Mind and Soul
Spanish Sonata by Sarah Rodgers is the featured work in the first of a series of four programmes...
Focus on RVW150: Ella Mary Leather
When I started to assemble a programme of music with the aim of helping choirs in their planning of Vaughan…
Augener’s Edition Catalogue 1928
From the Stainer & Bell Archive: Augener’s Edition Catalogue 1928 BACKGROUND As far as amateur musicians were concerned, Augener were,…
Adelina de Lara
Last month, we explored the lives and renaissance of two 19th-century composers, Fanny Hensel and Clara Schumann (‘Reputation’). With International…
Reputation
The latest volume of the innovative Multitude of Voyces collection of sacred music by women composers is now available from Stainer & Bell…
100 Years Ago: ‘A new choral problem’!
100 Years Ago: ‘A new choral problem’! Just recently I came across the January 1920 issue of The Musical Times…
HIDDEN TREASURE: Scraps and Fragments
Last week my eye rested on a report in the papers of an important discovery made under floorboards in an…