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Extra funding for first new concert hall in 100 years
Scottish First Minister John Swinney has pledged an extra £20m towards the cost of building the first new concert hall in Edinburgh in a century…
Calling all TikTok content creators
TikTok and Southbank Centre have partnered to launch a new classical music program called Crescendo…
Thangam Debbonnaire to head new opera trade body
Former shadow culture secretary Thangam Debbonaire is to lead a new trade body representing the UK’s opera sector…
Composer Adrian Sutton dies aged 58
Adrian Sutton, award-winning composer of the music for War Horse, the National Theatre’s play based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel, has died aged 58.
Nature and rivers inspire new British commission
Pollution, climate change and the rebirth of nature were the inspiration for a new work by British composer Libby Croad commissioned for The Dionysus Ensemble…
Obituary: composer Geoff Cummings-Knight
The composer Geoff Cummings-Knight has died at the age of 78…
A German in Whitchurch
As the glorious Llangollen Canal meanders through the borders of Cheshire, Shropshire and North Wales it touches the hidden gem of Whitchurch. I discovered that it was here that the composer Sir Edward German was born in 1862…
JOHN IRELAND: Piano Works
This is a most rewarding issue from a leading advocate of Ireland’s piano scores, and one endorsed by the John Ireland Trust, who contributed to its production…
MICHAEL FINNISSY: Piano Music
Although this handsomely-presented set of four discs cannot possibly encompass all his output for the piano, it is a happy celebration for the composer’s 80th year…
WALTON: Cello Concerto – Symphony No 1 | Scapino
Walton, John Wilson, Chandos – the recommendation writes itself. But there is also the appearance of Jonathan Aasgaard as soloist in the concerto…