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Innovative repertoire, worthy winners & talent development: looking back at the final of BBC Young Musician
BBC Young Musician final, 20206 – Sofia Demetriades [Photo: BBC / Betsan Evans] It was heartening to hear three such talented young people in the BBC Young Musician 2026 final and to experience such imaginatively […]
Complexity & beauty: soprano Paula Sides & pianist Sergey Rybin explore songs on the cusp of Modernism & Romanticism in Of Love & Transience
Of Love & Transience: Berg, Ullmann, Korngold, Strauss; Paula Sides, Sergey Rybin; VOCES8 RecordsReviewed 2 November 2026 Viktor Ullmann’s settings of Elizabeth Barrett Browning translated by Rilke provide the powerful centrepiece in a recital that […]
London Piano Festival (2): Mozart Gala
London Piano Festival (2): Mozart Gala Charles Owen, Katya Apekisheva, Junyan Chen, Tom Poster, Martin James Bartlett (pianos). King’s Place, 31.10.2026 Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K 426. Sonata in D, K 381. […]
Music made with & by people, where they live & work, is what keeps orchestral music alive & relevant: Orchestras Live’s 2026 Impact Review
Orchestras Live: Culture Sounds [Photo: Chiara Dellerba] Orchestras Live is the charity that works to bring the thrill and connection of live orchestral music to people who might not otherwise encounter it, and to use those […]
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Last Night of the Proms 2026: Sheridan Smith, Beverley Knight and Ward Thomas join the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and the BBC Singers in a tribute to Dolly Parton
Last Night of the Proms takes place at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 12 September, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds and in two parts on live TV: Part 1 on […]
AVIE maps an American pulse before an autumn of contrasts
NEWS • 7 August 2026 • Source: AVIE Records AVIE Records has opened its late-summer schedule with Rhythm Nation, a new album from New York’s PUBLIQuartet that treats rhythm as a meeting place rather than a boundary. Contemporary commissions […]
LSO Associate Artists reshape the concert format this autumn
NEWS • 4 August 2026 • Source: Baxter PR / London Symphony Orchestra Three autumn projects from London Symphony Orchestra collaborators will bring choral theatre, multidisciplinary performance and orchestral jazz to LSO St Luke’s and the Barbican. Tangram and […]
£200,000 Wolfson grant advances Smith Square restoration
NEWS • 3 August 2026 • Source: Sinfonia Smith Square Sinfonia Smith Square has secured a £200,000 grant from the Wolfson Foundation for the restoration of its Grade I listed Westminster home. The award supports Doors Open: Transforming Lives […]
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