Category: News
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New Classical Music Chart Published
Ta Da! The first new Classical Music Chart from the Official Charts Company is dominated by a reassuring presence, but underneath is found a predictable mix of orchestral sounds that stretch the definition of classical a great deal.
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Humphrey Burton (1931 – 2025)
Reduce classical music’s exposure and you don’t merely rearrange a schedule — you relegate an art form. No television executive ever defends that kind of decision.
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Class Ceiling: Data, discomfort and barriers
A day-long conference staged by Revere Arts on access in classical music revealed systemic blind spots, uncomfortable truths and the barriers still shaping who gets to belong.
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77TH ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL MARKS 50 YEARS SINCE BRITTEN’S DEATH
A preview of the 2026 Aldeburgh Festival: six world premieres, a major Pelléas et Mélisande, modernist centenaries, and a revitalised Britten–Pears artist-development vision marking fifty years since Britten’s death.
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Ulster orchestra’s new chief conductor announced
Ulster Orchestra names Anna Handler as Chief Conductor. A strategic appointment — and a moment for the orchestra to assert its identity more boldly.
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Ivors Classical Awards 2025 – Vidal, Grime, and Clyne secure key awards
The Ivors Classical Awards are never really about trophies. They’re about how an industry sees itself: noble, embattled, faintly addicted to the romance of struggle. Last night at the BFI, that story was told again — with a few new plot twists.
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NYO appoints Alpesh Chauhan as Principal Conductor and Music Advisor
The NYO has appointed Alpesh Chauhan as its Principal Conductor and Music Advisor. The fixed role for a conductor is a first for the ensemble.
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Construction to begin on Edinburgh’s first concert hall in a century
Nine years after the project was first announced, the Dunard Centre completes its transition from aspiration to construction
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Sir Keir Starmer on Radio 3’s Private Passions: heartfelt but a little hollow
Sir Keir Starmer’s Private Passions appearance is part love-letter to music, part soft-focus politics. He’s evidently warm in his advocacy of music education, but the committment is light on detail, for all the obvious reasons.
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RAJARS 2025: Everybody’s down and its not a disaster
Radio 3’s apparent slump isn’t a crisis; it’s a reminder that measurement no longer tells the full story. The audience hasn’t disappeared — it’s moved into spaces that RAJAR can’t see and the BBC now controls. What looks like decline is really transition: from live radio to on-demand, from shared experience to personal choice.