Classical Music Reviews
Dialogues: Julien Van Mellaerts and Dylan Perez
This should have been a great disc, I loved Dylan Perez’s playing when he appeared with Nicky Spence at Thaxted, My Father’s Son, Baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and Perez appeared in Opera Holland Parks series […]
Kazuki Yamada & CBSO launch 2026/27 season with Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony celebrating the CBSO Chorus’s 1000th performance
CBSO Chorus (Photo: Andrew Fox) Tonight (17 September 2026), the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by music director Kazuki Yamada launches their 2026/2027 season at Symphony Hall in Birmingham with a performance of Mahler’s […]
Choral music is flourishing in Taiwan: composer Will Todd on his experiences collaborating with the Soochow University Alumni Choir in Taiwan
Will Todd & Soochow University Alumni Choir Composer Will Todd has been collaborating with a choir in Taiwan, the Soochow University Alumni Choir, first performing his Mass in Blue in 2024 then writing a commission […]
Takemitsu, Ravel & The Blue Guitar: Music@Malling opens ten days of music in historic venues in Kent
Marc Chagall’s East or Memorial Window for Sarah d’Avigdor Goldsmid, at All Saints’ Church, TudeleyBy Ian Alexander – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 Music@Malling brings outstanding musicians to historic venues in and around West Malling in […]
Classical Music News
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 […]


