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 ...

Classical music’s supposed barrier to entry isn’t its tradition, but our fractured attention spans. While the industry hides behind self-referential marketing and smartphone screens, true connection ...

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Copland’s score acts as a much-needed sigh and a stretch – a motherly reassuring stroke in this concert with Marin Alsop and the Philharmonia. There are some tender moments, though the ensemble ...

A deliciously meaty Beethoven Violin Concerto from Augustin Hadelich and the Berlin Philharmonic. The orchestra feels like its playing differently – perhaps more on point. (Sacrilege to say, I know.

Right from the off Lamsma’s reading of Britten’s Violin Concerto has a distinct narrative line. The hesitations in the opening subject hint at melodrama. As the subject develops, so the quality ...

If Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony was the composer complying with authorities with a poker face masking sardonic material, then his Tenth Symphony is the horror laid ...

The big draw for this concert with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra is clarinettist and conductor Martin Fröst, rebelliously unconventional, and someone who knowingly trades on it. This isn’t ...