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Aigul Akhmetshina’s thought-provoking – if not fully realised – reflections on Love

01/10/202601/10/2026 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Love Without Borders: A Journey in Three Chapters: Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano), Jonathan Palmer Lakeland (piano). Milton Court Concert Hall, London, 30.9.2026. (CC)

Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) and Jonathan Palmer Lakeland (piano) © Natalie Hass

Names on the roster of the twelfth Ballet Nights were, as usual, names to conjure with

01/10/202630/09/2026 by John O'Dwyer

United Kingdom Ballet Nights 012: 3rd Birthday Programme: Cadogan Hall, London, 28.9.2026. (JO’D)

Gareth Haw and Sangeun Lee in On The Nature of Daylight © Deborah Jaffe

Luxury War Requiem starts the new London Philharmonic season as Gardner pulls out all the stops

28/09/202627/09/2026 by John Rhodes

United Kingdom Britten, War Requiem: Natalya Romania (soprano), Paul Appleby (tenor), Benjamin Appl (baritone), London Philharmonic Choir (chorus director: Madeleine Venner), London Symphony Chorus (chorus director: Mariana Rosas), Tiffin Boys’ Choir and Girls’ Choir (director: James Day). London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 26.9.2026. (JR)

Britten’s War Requiem with the conductor Edward Gardner, LPO, soloists and choirs © Andy Paradise

English National Ballet’s triple bill of dance at Sadler’s Wells is ‘rhythm itself’

27/09/202626/09/2026 by John O'Dwyer

United Kingdom English National Ballet’s Rhythm Riot (choreography by George Balanchine, Jae Man Joo and Micaela Taylor): Dancers of English National Ballet, English National Ballet Philharmonic / Maria Seletskaja (conductor). Sadler’s Wells, London, 24.9.2026. (JO’D)

English National Ballet dancers in Jae Man Joo’s *Auguries of Innocence* © Photography by ASH

Schubert 9–premiere (again): Leon Bosch, The Hanover Band at Cadogan Hall

24/09/202623/09/2026 by Alexander Verney-Elliott

United Kingdom Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Schubert: David Blackadder (trumpet), The Hanover Band / Leon Bosch (director). Cadogan Hall, London, 21.9.2026. (AV-E)

Leon Bosch conducts The Hanover Band at Cadogan Hall

At LSO St Luke’s, super-virtuoso performances of Feldman’s music were celebrated

20/09/202620/09/2026 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Morton Feldman, Unsettled Memory: Apartment House, Juliet Fraser (soprano), Eliza McCarthy (piano). LSO St Luke’s, London, 19.9.2026. (CC)

Manfred Honeck is the new Principal Conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra from September 2028

21/09/202619/09/2026 by Jim Pritchard

The Philharmonia Orchestra has announced the appointment of Manfred Honeck as its next Principal Conductor, beginning in September 2028

Chelsea Opera Group return with Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet in November

18/09/2026 by Jim Pritchard

Chelsea Opera Group present Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas

A concert performance in French with English surtitles
Cadogan Hall, London Sunday 1 November 2026, 5.30pm
4.15pm – Pre-concert talk with Simon Bainbridge
Duration – approx. 3 hours (incl. interval)

For more information click here

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