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Classical music

October 2026

  • The Frankfurt Radio Symphony stand, each with their instrument, in a large room with floor-to-ceiling windows

    Shostakovich Symphony No 8 album review – composer’s cry of despair in a remarkable and resonant new recording

  • Susan Tomes, a woman with short grey hair and wearing a purple shirt, sits at a grand piano and smiles at the camera

    Women and the Piano album review – Tomes brings her poetic instincts to a rewarding compilation

  • Choristers in white robes holding lit candles sing inside St Paul's Cathedral

    double quotation markAbide with me: English choral music is a living part of our cultural heritage – we should cherish it

    Jonathan Davies
  • Tom Service

    Tom Service on music
    double quotation markOnly connect: two composers who put humans at the heart of their music, and the conductor who didn’t

    Tom Service

  • George Fenton, Oscar-nominated British composer for more than 100 films, dies aged 76

  • Celibidache was a musical visionary, an uncompromising perfectionist – and my father

  • Barkouf review – Offenbach’s lost operetta is a quirky shaggy dog story

  • The Yellow Tie review – John Malkovich gives major hauteur as legendary record-hating maestro

  • Scottish Ensemble review – singular sounds from an ever-adventurous string orchestra

  • Notes and queries
    Why are national anthems almost always orchestral?

  • First look review
    Behemoth! review - Pedro Pascal classical music drama hits all the wrong notes

  • Parsifal review – bunkers, CCTV and fembots in elusive vision of Wagner’s mystical masterpiece

  • Geneva Lewis: Barber, Zorn, Glass album review – virtuosity and warmth

  • Beth Taylor: The Deeps Have Music album review – seamless legato and a gift for storytelling

September 2026

  • Tom Service

    Tom Service on music
    double quotation markStart spreading the news… New York’s opera giveaway shows UK politicians how to be brave

    Tom Service
  • Paraorchestra performance: two dancers move on a wooden floor as a seated crowd watches under stage lights

    Paraorchestra; Sinfonietta/Jonny Greenwood review – Reich’s kaleidoscopic music bursts into life

  • Conductor Edward Gardner raises a baton, leading the London Philharmonic Orchestra

    LPO/Edward Gardner review – Britten’s pacifist War Requiem lands with a bitterness and snarling irony

  • Primary school pupils sit playing clarinets during a music session

    Arts Council England doesn’t need ‘swagger’, it needs reform

  • Hallé/Wong review – MacMillan’s new symphony centres a great concert hall’s birthday celebrations

  • Honegger: Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher album review – faultless recording of an eclectic masterpiece

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