Category: Classical Music
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Preview – BBC Proms 2026 – 10 Recommended Concerts
10 recommended concerts from to see or listen to at the BBC Proms 2026.
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Preview – BBC Proms 2026 – A summer of superlatives awaits
A summer of superlatives awaits now that the BBC Proms season has been revealed.
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Review – Academy of Ancient Music’s The Chosen One at Milton Court
Academy of Ancient Music’s part-historiographical study, pinned to musical exploration, exposed the nearly always-overlooked route to JS Bach’s appointment as Thomaskantor, posing one delicious counterfactual question: what if Bach hadn’t got the job?
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Review – Key Changes: Radio 3’s Essential History of Classical Music
Key Changes confounds expectations — which, given what Radio 3 needs right now, is exactly what it needed to make.
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News – Thoroughly Good announces new partnership
Thoroughly Good announces a major new partnership, a new print title, and a subscription offer designed to bring classical music to new audiences.
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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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Review – Eurovision Classical Concerts
A selective tour of Europe’s radio orchestras — persuasive in parts, over-engineered in others
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Review – Phibbs Cello Concerto premiered by Guy Johnston
Joseph Phibbs’ new Cello Concerto is a study in compositional pragmatism: a concerto likely to travel well.