About Cardiff Recorded Music Society

If you enjoy music, then you will enjoy coming to Cardiff Recorded Music Society. We are a friendly Society with a common interest in music. Most of the presentations are of classical music but occasionally we have presentations of Jazz and musicals. We meet in Splott Methodist Church with its entrance in Burnaby Street. The venue is warm and bright and has a good acoustic.
Splott Methodist Church
Our many presenters include musicians, broadcasters, and academics, as well as our own members. The programmes are wide ranging and are presented in a warm friendly atmosphere. We have first class audio equipment and can play recordings from most formats. Quality of reproduction has always been important, but more important is the quality of the performance, and many presenters have played recordings from the earlier days of recording.

History

The Society started in 1944, when a small group of enthusiasts met to share their interest in recordings of Classical Music. In those days the records were Saleboard78rpm shellac records and the technical officers were able to boast that they could play a Beethoven symphony on 10 discs with no-one able to spot the joins.In these early days the Society had a secondary attraction as a dating agency where, over the years,10 married couples first met.

The Society has met in a number of venues in the City. An early venue was the YMCA, but this had to be abandoned when the room above the meeting room was let to a marching band on the same evening!
Our longest stay was in the Unitarian Church West Grove. This venue had difficult access for disabled members and the poor acoustics made it difficult to hear speakers from the back of the hall. There was no problem from marching bands but one evening the organist came in to practice! We knew we had to move when we arrived one evening and found a "For Sale" notice on the church!

 

Edward Greenfield, OBE.
Edward Greenfield OBE

Edward Greenfield OBE is our longest serving President and has been a great supporter of the Society. Ted was music critic for the Guardian newspaper and is joint editor of the Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music. He has been coming to Cardiff RMS for over 30 years, occasionally in the company of well respected performers and his visits have always been interesting and popular with members. Cardiff RMS are proud to have been associated with "the nicest man in the music world" and wish him a long and happy retirement.

 

 

Cardiff Recorded Music Society and St David's Hall

"Wynne Lloyd Series"

In addition to our weekly programmes, the Society presents a monthly series of Wynne Lloyd with Anthony Freudprogrammes in the St Asaph Room at St David's Hall, on Thursday afternoons. These were started in 1991 by Wynne Lloyd, when the Society presented a programme of music throughout the day on December 6th, the Bicentenary of Mozart's death. Other topics have covered opera (Viva Bel Canto and Viva Verdi, Voices of the Century) and festivals. This year we are continuing the series on Thursday afternoons from September to April. You can view the programme here.