It’s here! British Music Collection new website announcement
The British Music Collection's new website is here.... Harry Cooper leads you through the new features of the Collection
Spotlight
Spotlight
Tobias Broeker on his Research for Violin Concertante
Tobias gives an insight into his fascinating research, searching for 'missing scores'
Gen Doy on Isobel Anderson's Field Recordings
"Often these short pieces are like prose poems, where an observer visits a site of natural and historical interest"
Composer Nigel Morgan on Composing Parametrically
"As a composer it is increasingly difficult to escape the intervention of technology into one’s working practice"
Neil Luck on the Occult World of Rosemary Brown
"Rosemary Brown (1916-2001) may be one of the most important, and underrated musicians of her, or indeed any generation."
Composer Christopher Mayo on Leo Chadburn
"To me, each discrete chord or gesture in The Indistinguishables is like a moth pinned to a board"
Nicola LeFanu: "The Collection Then and Now"
"You went in and perhaps you wanted to listen to something, perhaps you just wanted to browse the scores, but there it all was, all this new music: it was an amazing feeling..."
Composer Matthew Kaner on Christian Mason
"Another feature of his work that I greatly admire as a composer myself is his ability to avoid what might be perceived as ‘clichés’ of the British new music scene"
BBC Radio 3 DJ Nick Luscombe on Simon James
"His piece vividly captures not only the structure of this now “ghost” building but also a real sense of an early 1950s futurist ideal"
Artist-researcher Tim Shaw on Hugh Davies
"Davies reveals the minute musical potential of all sorts of items including screwdrivers, egg slicers and scraps of metal..."
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