Category: News
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BBC Radio 3’s RAJAR Q2 2026: Breakfast Up, Unwind Up, Core Radio 3 Down
Core Radio 3 is down on its previous quarter, though its ‘brand extension’ sees a modest increase.
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News – Sir Anthony Hopkins signed by Decca Classics
Decca’s partnership with Sir Anthony Hopkins sees film-score sentiment rather than concert-hall risk doing a lot of marketing heavy lifting — and that’s precisely the point.
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Opinion – The BBC needs to save £500m. Classical music is not exempt.
Even if the BBC needs to save £500m, it won’t announce culling Radio 3 or the Proms, especially before the centenary of the Corporation’s ownership of it before next year. Will they?
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Podcast: 229 Franco Fagioli
Time with the most playful of interviewees, Franco Fagioli, recorded in Versailles in March 2026. Fagioli appears with Orchestra de l’Opera de Versailles at St Martin in the Fields on 13th June 2026.
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Podcast: Christophe Rousset on Lully, Mozart, and playing with rules
Christophe Rousset is a harpsichordist, conductor, and founder of Les Talens Lyriques. In this conversation, recorded in Paris, he talks about completing his twenty-year project to record all thirteen of Lully’s operas — a composer long dismissed as boring, and why that dismissal gets the history wrong.
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News – The Ivors goes big(ger): same(ish) room, different crowd
In years gone by, The Ivors Classicals had an ebullience that felt earned — a room full of people who normally worried about money and recognition, attending an event at which they could at least leave all of that behind for a few hours. With the ceremony refitted, rebadged and enlarged, will that atmosphere prevail…
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Podcast: Aldeburgh, Snape & Britten’s festival 50 years after his death
Fifty years after Britten’s death, Aldeburgh and Snape still honour the composer’s legacy. But how has the site, the Festival and the organisation adapted. What brings people back?
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News – Mrs T: The Iron Lady Sings in an exclusive preview in June
Excerpts from Sandbrook and Phibbs’ new opera Mrs T: The Iron Lady Sings will be performed at King’s Place in June. It’s an ambitious creative challenge too.
