Themed ‘Celebrate with Elgar’, the 2025 Elgar Festival taking place from Saturday 24 May until Sunday 1 June will bring together world class professional musicians and artists alongside local choirs and ensembles. Tickets are now on sale for the festival which aims to...
A set of original sketches and drafts by Sir Edward Elgar for one of his best-known compositions, the Introduction and Allegro for Strings, has been acquired by the British Library. Elgar completed the work in February 1905 and conducted the first performance a few...
The British Music Society AGM took place online and in person on 22nd February 2025 at 5.30pm followed by a great performance Ruth Gipps’s Symphony No. 2 given by Ealing Symphony Orchestra. About 17 members attended the AGM either in person or online. For John Talbot,...
The Royal Philharmonic Society has presented an Honorary Membership to composer and conductor Sir James MacMillan ahead of its annual awards which will be held in Birmingham for the first time. The Honorary Membership was presented to MacMillan onstage at Glasgow City...
Eleven-time Grammy-nominated sitarist, composer and producer, Anoushka Shankar releases her latest single We Burn so Brightly from her third and final instalment of mini-album trilogy. The complete album will be released on 14 March, but now we can listen to two...
The continuing collaboration of SOMM Recordings and Lani Spahr has produced another release of long forgotten and neglected recordings which highlight Sir Adrian Boult’s life-long championing of the music of Edward Elgar. On 17 February, 1918, in wartime London,...
