A courageous and perfectly timed season opener from the LPO, meeting the need of the moment with precision craft. This was an exceptional performance, not simply because of resolute attention to ...

Nigel Short: I’m a risk-taker. It works out sometimes. Not all the time. Tenebrae began with no plan, no name and a dinner Nigel Short tried to get out of. Twenty-five years on, the choir marks its ...

Nil Venditti has been appointed as Chief Conductor of Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Her first season of concerts in her new role will start in Autumn 2027. The Italian-Turkish conductor is contracted for ...

Nicky Spence shone, Dolly Parton got a tribute at ‘world’s greatest classical music festival’, and the BBC turned in a polished Last Night as the Corporation continues to search for £500m of savings.

Twenty-two classical and operatic events from across the UK worth clearing your diary for in September 2026. It goes without saying that none of what follows is exhaustive, more Thoroughly Good.

Core Radio 3 is down on its previous quarter, though its ‘brand extension’ sees a modest increase. This week’s BBC press release about the recent RAJAR figures calls Radio 3’s most recently reported ...

Nadia Boulanger’s Fantasy for piano and orchestra is an interesting demonstration, and Rachmaninov’s second symphony a solid read. Biased view incoming. Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony is the finest of ...

Rachmaninov’s Paganini Variations is a combative affair, but Kirill Gerstein, Thomas Søndergård and the RSNO ride it out, almost. The inclusion of Oliver Knussen’s concert opener Flourish with ...

Let’s not split hairs over a wobbly fugue, this was jaw-dropping stuff from Samuel Hudson, the Philharmonia and the Three Choirs Festival Chorus 📸 Three Choirs Festival There are some concerts you go ...

From a signature Mendelssohn to Janáček’s fevered final quartet, Opus13 play like a group with little to prove and everything still to say.

Ahead of her Ronnie Scotts debut, pianist Beatrice Nicholas talks to Thoroughly Good. Beatrice Nicholas is a British concert pianist and composer. She performs the traditional classical canon, and she ...

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.