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Classical Music Reviews
One Community, No Exclusions: Music for Change supporting You Are Loved’s mission to reduce deaths from suicide and drugs in the LGBTQ+ community
On 20 November 2026 at St Marylebone Parish Church, Music for Change returns for its second edition. The event, presented by Big Gay Out and Song in the City, is a fundraising concert for You Are […]
Deeply problematic, both aesthetically & ethically: Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone from English National Opera at London Coliseum
Du Yun & Royce Vavrek: Angel’s Bone – English National Opera at London Coliseum [Photo: Tristram Kenton] Du Yun & Royce Vavrek: Angel’s Bone; Allison Cook, Rodney Earl Clarke, Matthew McKinney, Mariam Wallentin, Keith Pun, […]
Schubert’s Baritone: A celebration of Johann Michael Vogl – James Newby & Joseph Middleton at Wigmore Hall
Vogl and Franz Schubert, caricatured by Franz von Schober (c. 1825) Schubert’s Baritone: A celebration of Johann Michael Vogl; James Newby, Joseph Middleton; Wigmore HallReviewed 13 October 2026 An imaginative exploration of Schubert’s important relationship […]
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Less is more: Elena Langer’s Ariadne & Purcell’s Dido hit home in finely abstract productions, a real ensemble achievement from English Touring Opera
Purcell: Dido & Aeneas – Michael Lafferty, Samantha Price – English Touring Opera [Photo: Richard Hubert Smith] Elena Langer: Ariadne; Jessica Cale, Kieron-Connor Valentine, director: Anna MorrisseyPurcell: Dido & Aeneas; Samantha Price, Michael Lafferty, ISabelle […]
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 […]
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