BBC Proms returns in summer 2026

BBC Proms returns in summer 2026

Apr 24, 2026 | News

The BBC Proms returns in summer 2026, presenting eight weeks of world-class music from an array of leading orchestras, conductors and soloists from across the UK and around the world. A season-long celebration of American music marks 250 years since the signing of the...
EDMUND RUBBRA: Choral Music

EDMUND RUBBRA: Choral Music

Apr 24, 2026 | CD reviews

The Chapel Choir of Merton College, Oxford Benjamin Nicholas conductorFrançois Cloete and Owen Chann organ DELPHIAN DCD34332 [58] Since his death 40 years ago, Edmund Rubbra’s music remains on the outskirts of the repertoire. Much still deserves an airing but...
Festival to focus on composer Julius Benedict

Festival to focus on composer Julius Benedict

Apr 24, 2026 | News

A week-long Julius Benedict Festival, organised by Music in the Burnhams, is taking place in The Burnhams, North Norfolk from 19 to 24 July 2026. Presented in collaboration with the Museum of Music History, the festival will begin with an Evensong featuring St...
JIM AITCHISON: Piano Quintets

JIM AITCHISON: Piano Quintets

Apr 24, 2026 | CD reviews

Roderick Chadwick pianoKreutzer Quartet MÉTIER RECORDS mex 77141 Jim Aitchison is a composer known for his musical responses to visual art, and he is a visual artist in his own right. Aitchison’s first piano quintet, Margarete, has its relationship to Anselm Kiefer’s...
HAVERGAL BRIAN: Symphony No. 1 ‘The Gothic’

HAVERGAL BRIAN: Symphony No. 1 ‘The Gothic’

Apr 24, 2026 | CD reviews

Ole Schmidt conductorLSO, choruses and soloists HERITAGE  HTGCD 124 (2 CDs) Like, I suspect, some other BMS members I recall tumbling from the Albert Hall in May 1980 dazed by the power of the music I had just experienced. Now here is a remastered recording of...