New releases coming out in September 2026
Among the new releases this month is an historic recording of Elgar’s oratorio The Apostles and an album from LSO Live featuring Ralph Vaughan Williams’s expansive Symphony No 1, A Sea Symphony..
BRITISH MUSIC FOR STRINGS V
This latest issue in a valuable series finds the SKP in rejuvenated form, and they give excellent performances throughout. The repertoire, likely to be unfamiliar to the vast majority of listeners, is a fascinating and generous collection…
RICHARD BLACKFORD: The Black Lake
Both of these works deal with tragedy and yet the music is not tragic; it is moving, unmistakably contemporary and ultimate life-affirming…
£200K award to restore London concert hall
Sinfonia Smith Square has been awarded £200,000 from the Wolfson Foundation to support the restoration and renewal of the Grade I listed Smith Square Hall in Westminster…
Orchestra announces three London performances
The London Symphony Orchestra has announced three performances taking place at LSO St Luke’s and the Barbican, bringing together artists whose work moves fluidly between orchestral music, jazz, theatre, spoken word and visual storytelling…