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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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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 ...

Dani Howard’s Concerto for Brass, SIGNAL, is a must-listen. Howard’s writing engages and delivers every time. Her trombone concerto for Peter Moore, premiered by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic ...

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, ...

A scrapbook in sound: voices, reflections and field recordings from Three Choirs Festival 2026 in Gloucester — a postcard from two life-enhancing days.

From a signature Mendelssohn to Janáček’s fevered final quartet, Opus13 play like a group with little to prove and everything still to say.

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 ...