Leeds Song Festival has announced its 2026 programme, with Director Joseph Middleton joined in recital by singers Dame Sarah Connolly, Roderick Williams and 2025 Gramophone Award-winner Huw Montague ...

Semyon Bychkov has been appointed as the next Music Director at the Paris Opera. The Russian-born conductor will join the company from August 1, 2026 as Appointed Music Director before coming into the ...

The King’s 2026 New Years Honours List has been announced, recognising outstanding contributions to music and the arts. Mezzo ...

From revamped classics to extravagant limited editions, the latest hi-fi launches push design and performance to bold new extremes ...

I support Wilson’s stance: that opera must be open to all; that it has been misrepresented by the media and mistreated by governments’ ...

The Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii has overcome blindness to achieve worldwide recognition and a contract with Deutsche Grammophon. Jeremy Nicholas meets him in advance of the release of his second ...

Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews, featuring Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou ...

Today’s most creative young artists are reshaping recording in their own image. Charlotte Gardner talks to some of the most innovative figures about what the art form means to them ...

Bach’s Cantata No 106 is remarkable for its consoling mood and ethereal sound world, dominated by recorders and violas da gamba. Mark Seow assesses a range of approaches to the work ...

A new contest in the heart of Europe promises to be more than a competition – a global platform for conductors and ideas It’s never been harder for promising conductors to break their careers – partly ...

As The Takács Quartet approach the end of their fiftieth anniversary, the ensemble has announced that cellist András Fejér will retire at the end of the 2025-26 season. Fejér is the last remaining ...