Arnold Bax
Piano Sonata No.1 in F sharp minor
Piano Sonata No.2 in G
Piano Sonata No.3 in G minor
Piano Sonata No.4 in G

John Ireland
Piano Sonata

Frank Bridge
Piano Sonata

John Joubert celebrates his 80th birthday on 20 March 2007. To mark the occasion the British Music Society has digitally remastered and reissued this 1975 recording for the first time on CD.

1.O Praise God in his Holiness Op.52
2.Three Pro Pace Motets Op.19,32,29
3. How are my Foes Increased, Lord! Op.61
4.Sleep Canticle Op.81
5.Three Hymns to St Oswald Op.74
6.Nowell Op.58

A première recital of solo songs for voice and piano by Brian Blyth Daubney, a Lincolnshire musician and composer who was born in 1929 and studied with Benjamin Burrows and Kenneth Leighton. Writing persuasively and vividly within the great lyrical tradition of twentieth-century English Song, Blyth Daubney has to date produced over 200 solo songs, of which some thirty are presented here.

Arnold Cooke (1906 - 2005)

Three String Sonatas
Sonata No.2 for violin and piano (1951)
Sonata for viola and piano (1937)
Sonata No.2 for cello and piano (1980)

Rutland Boughton (1878 - 1960)

Four songs Op.24 (Edward Carpenter)
Five Celtic Love Songs (Fiona Macleod)
Songs of Womanhood Op.33
(Christina Walshe)
Three songs Op.39
(Edward Carpenter)
Symbol Songs (Mary Richardson)
Sweet Ass (Eleanor Farjeon)

Patrick Piggott (1915 - 1990)

1. Fantasia quasi una Sonata
(First Piano Sonata)
2. Second Piano Sonata
3. Eight Preludes and a Postlude
(Set 3)

Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892-1988)

The British Music Society is proud to announce the re-release on its own label - as a BMS Twenty-fifth Anniversay Special Edition - of pianist Michael Habermann's renowned recordings of the piano works of Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892-1988), originally recorded over the period 1980-1995.

Noel Mewton-Wood (1922-1953)

The first BMS Historic release, in the Society's Twenty-Fifth Anniversary year. Digitally remastered and re-released for the first time since its original appearance on LP in 1952, this performance of Sir Arthur Bliss's mighty Piano Concerto remains for many the most exciting, in both musical and virtuosic terms, yet recorded. The generous coupling includes the two other twentieth-century piano concertos Mewton-Wood recorded before his tragic death at the age of thirty-one in December 1953.

York Bowen (1884-1961)
String Quartet No.2 in D minor Op.41 (c.1918)
String Quartet No.3 in G major Op.46b (1919)
Phantasy Quintet for bass clarinet and string quartet Op.93 (1932)

Timothy Lines (bass clarinet)
Archaeus Quartet recorded Recital Room, Tonbridge School, Kent,
16th, 18th, 20th December 2001

Gordon Jacob Variations
Cyril Scott Aubade
Edmund Rubbra Sonatina Op.128
Antony Hopkins Suite
Edmund Rubbra Passacaglia Sopra
'Plusieurs Regrets' Op.113
John Gardner Little Suite in C Op.60
Edmund Rubbra Meditazioni Sopra
'Coeurs Désolés' Op.67
Colin Hand Sonata Breve
Fritz Reizenstein Partita

John McCabe (b.1939)

1) Variations (1963)
2) Aubade (Study No.4, 1970)
3) Gaudi (Study No.3, 1970)
4) Five Bagatelles (1964)
5) Mosaic (Study No.6 1980)
World Premiere Recording
6) Haydn Variations (1983)

World Premiere Recordings

John Foulds
Sonata for Cello and Piano Op.6
Ernest Walker
Sonata in F minor for cello and piano Op.41
York Bowen
Sonata in A major for cello and piano Op.64

The British Music Society's concert of Victorian Music performed during the Centenary year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee - 2 June 1997

Maconchy: Sun, Moon and Stars
Three Songs
LeFanu: I am Bread, Penny for a Song Whitehead: Awa Herea
Cresswell: Words for Music.Lumsdaine: A Norfolk Songbook Lilburn: Three Songs
Farquhar: Six Songs of Women
Joubert: The Turning Wheel
R. R. Bennett: Garland for Marjory Fleming

Issued in honour of John Joubert's 70th birthday in March 1997

1. Temps Perdu - Variations for String Orchestra Op.99
2. Sinfonietta Op.38
3.The Instant Moment - song-cycle for Baritone and String Orchestra to words by D. H. Lawrence, Op.110

Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
Phantasie in C minor
James Friskin (1886-1967)
Phantasie in E minor
John Ireland (1879-1962)
Phantasie in A minor
E.J. Moeran (1894-1950)
Piano Trio in D major

Partsongs for unaccompanied
mixed chorus by:

E.J. Moeran
Songs of Springtime plus six other Partsongs
Arthur Benjamin
Three Mystical Pieces
Edgar Bainton
In the Wilderness, Night, Open thy Gates
Leslie Heward
The Witches’ Sabbath

Viola Sonatas by
Edgar Bainton and
Julius Harrison
Programme also includes Three Pieces by Frank Bridge.

Four Romantic Pieces, Op.95 -
played by Kenneth Leighton

Sonata for Four Hands Op.92 -
played by Kenneth Leighton
and Colin Kingsley