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The Gluepot Connection - New CD and Concert
New book on Alan Bush by Dr Joanna Bullivant
Talk at Oxford University
Re-broadcast of Alan Bush radio programme
Alan Bush programme on Australian Radio
Recent Concert of Alan Bush's Works in Cape Town
Stokes Meyer Sightreading Prize 2016
Alan Bush Composition Prize 2016
South Africa concert in September
October concert in South Africa
Ormskirk Music Society Concert
Concerts in June and July
Two new CDs
Appeal for funds for new Alan Bush CD
Alan Bush concerts in Russia and Belarus in April and May 2013
Lascaux Symphony on new CD
Alan Bush concerts in Russia in 2013
Alan Bush featured at John Ireland Festival in London in June
London performance of Dialectic in May
New CD - British Recorder Music
Two performances of The Winter Journey in Germany in December 2011
Alan Bush Composition Prize 2011
A Review of 24 Preludes for Piano and Ballet in Small Spaces
Alan Bush's Twenty Four Preludes and the Ballet In Small Spaces, May 2011
Red Strains: Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc after 1945
Performance of Corentyne Kwe-Kwe
New Publications of Alan Bush Compositions
German Production of The Press Gang
Alan Bush Composition Prize 2010
BBC broadcast of the 'The Winter Journey'
Memories of 'The Ferryman's Daughter'
Alan Bush Composition Prize 2009
Frank and Hilda Stokes and Marjorie Meyer Sight-Reading Prize 2009
Photos of the the Unveiling Party of the Alan Bush Bust
The Unveiling Party of the Alan Bush Portrait Bust by Ian Walters
December 2008 Performance of 'The Winter Journey'
September 2008 Concert
Alan Bush Composition Prize 2008
Frank Stokes and Marjorie Meyer Sightreading Prize 2008
Christ's College Memorial Service for Paul O'Higgins
Professor Paul O'Higgins
Alan Bush Bust Appeal
Two recent books on Alan Bush available now
Concert in September 2006
Forthcoming Books
London Concert in December
More performances of Concert Piece in Europe
Dimension to perform Three Concert Studies
Alan Bush Composition Prize 2006
Performance of Concert Piece for Cello and Piano in Munich
Birmingham Clarion Singers Concert
Concert at RNCM in November 2005
Upcoming Concerts
New CD by the London Piano Quartet
The Stokes and Meyer Memorial Prize for Sight-Reading
CD and Concert of Bush's Symphonies Nos 1 and 2
Northern Chamber Orchestra Concert
RNLI Concert Review
RNLI Concert in September
The Alan Bush Composition Prize 2003
Manchester International Cello Festival
Edna Iles Memorial Concert
April Chamber Concerts – Alauna Ensemble
Concert review of Sonatina for Recorders and Piano in Norwich
Violin Concerto CD selected CD of the year by critic
New Redcliffe CD - British String Quartets (No. 3)
Concert in January 2003 at the Purcell Room, London
Alan Bush Chamber Music – Volume 1 released
New CD - 'Alan Bush' - Re-issue of 1985 Hyperion recording
"In My Eighth Decade and Other Essays" available from Trust
Nancy Bush's book published
Virtual Alan Bush exhibition goes live
News Archive
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New CDs
Posted: 10 June 2000

New CD - "To All A Future World May Hold - Song Cycles by Alan Bush"
Performed by The Artsong Collective: Richard Black (piano), Wills Morgan (tenor), Paul Wilson (baritone), Phillida Bannister (mezzo-soprano), Moira Harris (soprano).
Released November 2000 on the Musaeus label.

This CD features:
Voices of the Prophets - Cantata for Tenor and Piano (Opus 41) (1953).
Four Seafarers' songs for Baritone (Opus 57) (1961).
Text from the Penguin book of folk songs.
Life's Span - Song Cycle for Mezzo Soprano and Piano (Opus 79) (1958, 1961 and 1974).
Texts:
1. A Child Asleep by Nancy Bush - 1958.
2. Learning to Talk by C Day Lewis - 1961.
3. The Long Noonday by Nancy Bush - 1974.
4. Beauty's end is in sight by C Day Lewis - 1974.
Woman's Life - Song Cycle for Soprano and Piano (Opus 87) (1977).
Poems by Nancy Bush:
1. Prologue.
2. Weaving Song.
3. Factory Day.
4. Epilogue.

The Artsong Collective have been admirers of Alan Bush's music since they first performed it in 1995. Only one of the four song cycles has previously been recorded and this will be the first recording devoted exclusively to Alan Bush's vocal compositions.

For further information and to obtain copies of the Artsong Collective CD contact:
Richard Black
The Artsong Collective
142B, Friary Road
London
SE15 5UW
United Kingdon
Telephone: 020 7277 7068
Email: richard@musaeus.co.uk

New CD - "Bush's Complete Organ Works"
Performed by Robert Crowley.
Pipework SCS655.
Issued November 2000.

This CD features:
Three English Song Preludes (Opus 40) (1952). Based on songs from the 13th, 15th and 17th centuries.
Two Occasional Pieces (Opus 56) (1960):
1. For a Solemn Occasion.
2. For a Festal Occasion. Dedicated to C.H.Trevor, Professor of Organ, Royal Academy of Music.
Prelude and Concert Piece for Organ (Opus 116) (1986).
Suite for Organ (Opus 117) (1986).
Sonata for Organ (Opus 122) (1987).

Robert Crowley has recorded the complete organ works of Alan Bush at the organ of St. Mary's Parish Church, Hitchin. Altogether Alan Bush wrote five organ pieces, including the three commissioned by Robert Crowley, who regards them as a striking contribution to the modern organ repertory.

Robert Crowley is currently Director of Music and Chapel Organist at St. George's School, Harpenden. He began his musical career as a chorister at St. Margaret's, Westminster. He studied the organ with Martindale Sidwell at the Royal Academy of Music (1974 - 1978), where he was awarded the Recital Diploma for Organ and won several prizes.

Pipework is a new label, specialising in organ music in general and 20th century organ music in particular.

To obtain the CD send a cheque/P.O. (made payable to Stephen Lewis Jones) for £10.99 including p&p to:
Stephen Lewis Jones
48 Compton Avenue
Leagrave
Luton
Bedfordshire
LU4 9AZ
United Kingdon
Telephone: 01582 503806

New CD - "The Swallow Book"
"The Swallow Book" also known as "The Prison Cycle" (for Mezzo Soprano and Piano) (Opus 19) (1939), composed with Alan Rawsthorne.
This recording features Alison Wells (soprano) and Martyn Hill (tenor) with Keith Swallow (piano). The songs are settings of poems by the German poet, Ernst Toller, who was imprisoned in about 1920 for his political activities.
To be released in 2001.

The Prison Cycle comprises an Introduction, written by Alan Bush, which consists of the following three lines: Sechs Schritte Her, Sechs Schritte Hin, Ohne Sinn" (translation) "Six paces forward, "Six paces back, Without any sense".

This is followed by the first song, also written by Alan Bush, about the poet's prison cell. Alan Rawsthorne then repeats the three lines in an Interlude, followed by the second song, composed by Rawsthorne, about a pair of swallows who built a nest outside Toller's cell window. The birds were subsequently destroyed by the prison authorities. The cycle ends with an Epilogue, by Alan Bush, which repeats the three lines yet again.

The recording of this work occupies 10 minutes of a CD issued by the Alan Rawsthorne Society which includes Rawsthorne's other songs and two song cycles by Gerard Shurmann.

To obtain the CD and/or further information contact:
Stephen Trowell
7 Tudor Gardens
Upminster
Essex
RM14 3DE
United Kingdon
Telephone: 01708 224795

Redcliffe Recordings
Two recordings, "Music By Alan Bush" (1984) and "British String Quartets" (1997) are available from Redcliffe Recordings.
Click here for details.