Music news in brief
A round-up of music related news from January 2026 including an award to a distinguished musician and the closure of a cathedral school…
Trust launches national choral music campaign
The Cathedral Music Trust has launched a national campaign to secure UNESCO Living Heritage recognition for English sacred choral music…
ELGAR: Light out of Darkness
The great joy of this disc is threefold. Firstly, we are treated to some pieces of Elgar that one rarely encounters, such as the three early settings of O Salutaris Hostia…
New album features Welsh composer Robin Stephens
An album of orchestral music by the Welsh-born and Manchester-based composer Robin Stephens is being released by Toccata on 6 March. The compositional career of Robin Stevens, who was born in 1958, is divided into two periods, separated by a period of illness. The...
HUW WATKINS: Symphony No. 2 | Fanfare for the Hallé
The Concerto For Orchestra again opens with the familiar…rippling woodwinds, and throughout, the sound world is identical to that of the Symphony – bursting with the same tricks of orchestration and rhythm…