Category: Features
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RPS Awards 2026: Classical is a sector that knows what it wants
The Royal Philharmonic Society Awards were a stylish affair full of wit, polish and verve. Classical music as self-assured and defiant. There’s still work to be done, and a timely message for some to keep checking their spam folder.
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Edinburgh International Festival 2026: there’s more to this creative risk than meets the eye
The 2026 Edinburgh International Festival programme is bold, substantial, and confident. And it poses a big uncomfortable question.
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An International Piano Competition. In Hastings.
Rachmaninov played in Hastings twice. What the Hastings International Piano Competition does that legacy is a more complicated question.
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Podcast – Composer & Sound Artist Ruby Colley
Ruby Colley’s new album Hello Halo — released 14 November 2025 alongside a short documentary film — distils a project that began in live performance. Premiered at King’s Place in February and revisited at the Aldeburgh Festival in June of this year, the work turns field recordings and family archive material into an exploration of…
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Palazzetto Bru-Zane: revealing the music hidden in a Venice casino
Hidden behind a brick wall and a steel door with a discreet intercom button down an alleyway in Venice, a wisteria-clad building is home to Palazzetto Bru Zane – a laboratory dedicated to unearthing lesser-known French Romantic music. But why in the heart in Venice?