Chandos releases Sir Arthur Bliss’s Metamorphic Variations and Miracle in the Gorbals with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Michael Seal.

Chandos releases Sir Arthur Bliss’s Metamorphic Variations and Miracle in the Gorbals with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Michael Seal.

Oct 18, 2025 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews, Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss – died fifty years ago, on March 27, 1975

Not only Outstanding but important, the first time that Arthur Bliss’s final orchestral work, Metamorphic Variations, has been recorded complete, despite two previous studio recordings conducted respectively by Barry Wordsworth and David Lloyd-Jones. Bliss...
BBC Proms 2025 – BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Arthur Bliss’s The Beatitudes, Ruth Gipps’s Death on the Pale Horse, and Lukas Sternath plays Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Prom photo 3/Chris Christodoulou.

BBC Proms 2025 – BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Arthur Bliss’s The Beatitudes, Ruth Gipps’s Death on the Pale Horse, and Lukas Sternath plays Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Prom photo 3/Chris Christodoulou.

Sep 7, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss – died fifty years ago, on March 27, 1975

BBC Proms 2025 – BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Arthur Bliss’s The Beatitudes, Ruth Gipps’s Death on the Pale Horse, and Lukas Sternath plays Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio...
BBC Proms 2025 – BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Arthur Bliss’s The Beatitudes, Ruth Gipps’s Death on the Pale Horse, and Lukas Sternath plays Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Prom photo 2/Chris Christodoulou.

BBC Proms 2025 – BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Arthur Bliss’s The Beatitudes, Ruth Gipps’s Death on the Pale Horse, and Lukas Sternath plays Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Prom photo 2/Chris Christodoulou.

Sep 7, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss – died fifty years ago, on March 27, 1975

BBC Proms 2025 – BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Arthur Bliss’s The Beatitudes, Ruth Gipps’s Death on the Pale Horse, and Lukas Sternath plays Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio...
BBC Proms 2025 – BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Arthur Bliss’s The Beatitudes, Ruth Gipps’s Death on the Pale Horse, and Lukas Sternath plays Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

BBC Proms 2025 – BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Arthur Bliss’s The Beatitudes, Ruth Gipps’s Death on the Pale Horse, and Lukas Sternath plays Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Sep 7, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss – died fifty years ago, on March 27, 1975

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Sunday, September 7, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London “Bliss’s cantata The Beatitudes was commissioned to mark the opening of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962. As the building of the cathedral was an act of...
Arthur Bliss’s music for the Alexander Korda-produced film Things to Come (released 1936) based on H. G. Wells’s novel The Shape of Things to Come. The LSO recorded the soundtrack, and this Suite some twenty years later, the composer conducting.

Arthur Bliss’s music for the Alexander Korda-produced film Things to Come (released 1936) based on H. G. Wells’s novel The Shape of Things to Come. The LSO recorded the soundtrack, and this Suite some twenty years later, the composer conducting.

Apr 5, 2025 | Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss – died fifty years ago, on March 27, 1975, Videos

Little Pomp if plenty of Circumstance – maybe Elgar’s “Quick March” titling is taken too literally here, by Stanley Pope (especially), Sir Ernest MacMillan, and Sir Arthur Bliss. Also Bliss’s own Welcome the...