New release features long forgotten Elgar recordings
The continuing collaboration of SOMM Recordings and Lani Spahr has produced another release of long forgotten and neglected recordings of Elgar’s music…
Music news in brief
An historic music library – the largest in the North of England – reopened in January after undergoing a major redevelopment…
Award for Sir Simon Rattle at 70
The conductor, who turned 70 in January, is to receive the 2025 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize ‘in recognition of his lifetime dedication to music’…
Sheffield music hub awarded £3.5m funding
Plans to transform a Grade II* listed building in Sheffield city centre into a new music hub for the region has been boosted by £3.5m of funding from Arts Council England…
Versatile musician Elgar Howarth dies aged 89
Elgar Howarth, trumpeter, composer and later, conductor of repute, has died…
Music of British composer Anthony Hedges to be recorded
The piano music of British composer Anthony Hedges will be recorded in 2025 by the young English pianist Adam Davies…