Opera North appoints new music director and chair
Leading arts organisation Opera North has announced two significant appointments as it continues to ensure opera remains a vital part of the cultural offering…
LSO to premiere Soundtrack to the Apocalypse next month
British saxophonist and composer Soweto Kinch is doing some interesting work with the London Symphony Orchestra leading to a world premiere next month…
Gordon Jacob’s music thriving in Japan
Conductor Douglas Bostock has long championed Gordon Jacob’s music in concerts and recordings from his first contact with him in 1982 until the end of his life…
English poet’s birthday marked with a recital
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s fifth great-grandson will mark the poet’s 254th birthday with a recital at his Highgate resting place…
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..
£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…