BMR

Dedicated to the promotion of classical music composed by British and Irish composers, from earliest-known to present day.

Broadcasts will be online daily from this site programmes playable on demand, and eventually each day's programming will be available for the following seven days.

The daily sequence will be:

Magazine 2 hours
Concert - live or recordings, 2 hours
Specialist programmes, 2 hours

This is a period of Test broadcasts and BMR will be fully operational later this year.

We are experimenting with media players to see which works best and in what browsers.

BMR will be grateful for all and any comments on this aspect which we ask you to send to:

broadcast@britishmusicradio.net

Support BMR with your DONATION

British Music Radio :
Mission Statement

Our mission is to broadcast British Classical Music because we believe in its quality and its value.

We aim to make available the heritage of the musical culture of the British Isles, and especially to promote discovery - and re-discovery. We also want to encourage young performers to feature this repertoire in their programming, and concert organisers to work with us to promote such music.

British Music Radio is not-for-profit, all surplus funds will be invested into its development.

British Music Recital Series 2010-2011

BMR has recorded two of the series:

On 16th May, Miriam Kramer and Nicholas Durcan featured in a programme of Elgar and Walton Sonatas. Marvellously played, and recorded for broadcast later.

On 4th July, the first event with Mark Bebbington, partnered with the renowned Coull Quartet in music by Ireland, Ian Venables and Elgar. Again, a marvellous recital and BMR is confident listeners will be thrilled by the result, again to be broadcast later.

We will be announcing future events
in due course.

Current Broadcast Programme

This Test broadcast is a live concert recorded at the Festival of British Music at the Hotham Arts Centre, Bognor Regis, on 23rd September 2006.

The Festival Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Goodchild, played:

Walton:     March, Crown Imperial
Vaughan Williams (orch Gordon Jacob):     English Folk Songs Suite
Stanford:    Songs of the Sea - Mark Wildman (baritone), and Festival Male Chorus

Elgar:    Enigma Variations

+ encore: Goodwin:    633 Squadron

Are you a Music Society, Trust or individual who shares our vision and who has a proposal which will result in undervalued British works being given a hearing?

If so, we would very much like to hear from you! It could be performance, or funding support, or research - BMR exists to work with you.

Or have you ideas or a proposal e.g. for a programme, feature or series? Would you like to devise or present material on BMR?

CONTACT BMR at:

broadcast@britishmusicradio.net

Become a BMR SUBSCRIBER

We have two types of Subscriber:

General: Someone who listens regularly to our output of British Music (and that's people all over the world) and who wants to support our general running costs. We are asking you to subscribe £2 a month or £20 a year so that we can have regular support. To find out more contact general@britishmusicradio.net

Initiative: These Subscribers are people, institutions etc who want to support the performance of rarely-played works and their recording and broadcast. This is the creative end of BMR, a means of real partnership between audience and performers. This process will involve identification of works, research, editing and preparation, rehearsal and performance plus recording and broadcast. Such effort will progress according to costings and funding.

Please talk to us about any aspect of the Initiative process, from suggestion through to funding at:

initiative@britishmusicradio.net

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Instead of a long list of links to many hundreds of pages, we've chosen to link you to those sites that have those links. But if there is one you feel we should display contact

links@britishmusicradio.net

BBC Radio 3 Daily Schedule
British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
Ralph Vaughan Williams Society
British Music Society
British Music Information Centre
Music Web Internatiomal - British Composers
The British Music Page - EasyWeb
British Classical Composers Database
[See Also English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh]
History of British Women Composers
The British Composers Project

Playlist Play Walton: Crown Imperial

Vaugah Williams: Folk Somg Suite

Stanford: Somgs of the Sea

Elgar: Enigma Variations

Encore!

Emma Kirkby and Anthony Rooley

Mark Wildman with Festival Orchestra
cnducted by Anthony Goodchild

Miriam Kramer and Nicholas Durcan 2006

British Music Festival Orchestra
conducted by Anthony Goodchild

Caspian Quartet

Mark Bebbington

Close Company

Festival Chorus
conducted by Anthony Goodchild

The Consort of Musicke

British Music Chamber Orchestra
conducted by Anthony Goodchild

Angela Brownridge

Miriam Kramer and Nicholas Durcan 2010

British Music on Video around the World

Holst: Mars The Bringer of War
17 August 2009 - Introduction and performance of the two-piano version by Mei-ting Sun and Koji Attwood at the 2007 International Society of the Friends of György Cziffra concert, at Yamaha Artist Services, Inc. in New York City.