Twenty-two classical and operatic events from across the UK worth clearing your diary for in September 2026. It goes without saying that none of what follows is exhaustive, more Thoroughly Good.

Britten Sinfonia’s residency is the latest in a run of work across the East of England that demonstrates the ensemble’s commitment to serving its community.

48 hours in Lahti to hear Sibelius played by a band that knows exactly what to do with it, inside Sibelius Hall, with its studio ambience that takes no prisoners and rewards all. There’s not a great ...

A ten-year plan, not a slogan: Music@Malling’s Thomas Kemp on why ‘growth in every postcode’ needs the arts to be treated as infrastructure. With a new Prime Minister, the political mood music has ...

Nadia Boulanger’s Fantasy for piano and orchestra is an interesting demonstration, and Rachmaninov’s second symphony a solid read. Biased view incoming. Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony is the finest of ...

Bruch’s First Violin Concerto, completed in its present form in 1867, is one of the most popular of the romantic concertos — and like its partner in crime written by Mendelssohn forty years earlier, ...

Out of all this year’s Proms, Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F major is the most problematic. The sound is immediate. We’re all made to feel included. The inattentive will finish the work feeling ...

Horowitz’s latest whodunnit feels like Agatha Christie lost in the jungle — a sleek, sharply plotted puzzle where everyone’s a suspect and the danger looks just a little too beautiful to be real. It’s ...

A scrapbook in sound: voices, reflections and field recordings from Three Choirs Festival 2026 in Gloucester — a postcard from two life-enhancing days. Inside Sibelius Hall, where the silences are as ...

Smyth’s The Forest is an earnest curiosity — an hour-long tale that shows the composer’s tenacity more than dramatic instinct, and one that presents challenges to any director trying to bring it fully ...

A run-down of the entire BBC Proms season with catch-up links to every broadcast available via BBC Sounds. Every concert from BBC Proms 2024 reviewed with a link to BBC Sounds A run-down of the entire ...