Why compose? After a career in film & TV, composer Gavin Greenaway is developing his own voice with Skylines, the new album from his Cloud Chamber duo with Caroline Dale

It's coming home! Elgar collection of New Jersey businessman Arthur Reynolds donated to the Hallé

Beyond Coppélia and Lakmé: Bru Zane to release premiere recording of Delibes's Jean de Nivelle

War, politics, love, & brotherhood: Kieran Rayner & Gamal Khamis's What If? at the Bloomsbury Festival allows the audience to decide the narrative

Following its centenary celebrations last year, the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra becomes resident at Brighton Dome

The Continuo Foundation awards £108,000 in its 12th round of grants

Bass Brindley Sherratt to be artistic director of The Grange Festival following Michael Chance's retirement

Recorder player Tabea Debus joins York Early Music Festival as guest artistic advisor

Collaborative music & art residency: Burgh House & Chamber Studio join forces with The Cosman Keller Art & Music Trust

A fresh take: youthful Daniel Dorn releases his debut album of Bach's Cello Suites in May 2027

Britten's War Requiem: Edward Gardner takes an uncompromising & severe view softened by the poetic attention to the words from soloists in London Philharmonic Orchestra's season opener

Misha Mullov-Abbado on harp, Belgian roots & Finizi anniversaries: CD launches this week

Relishing the challenge: mezzo-soprano Samantha Price on singing her first Dido in Purcell's opera on tour with English Touring Opera

Not quite the sum of its parts: starry casting with Carmen Giannattasio, Saimir Pirgu & Bryn Terfel fails to lift Oxford International Opera's debut with Puccini's Tosca

A sassy Carmen from Katie Bray in Blackheath Halls Opera's celebratory 20th anniversary production of Bizet's opera

Beyond the concert hall: NYCOS Singing Time launches in primary schools & NYCOS BSL Youth Choir makes debut at opening ceremony of Scottish Parliament

Between Breath and Brass: Hearing the Sheng in Contemporary London

Fogli d'album: Anna Bonitatibus & Adele d'Aronzo explore the barely tapped wealth of Rossini's occasional pieces

OutLoud! a new company amplifying queer stories launches with fun, campy production of Humperdinck's Hansel & Gretel

London Opera Company returns to Smith Square with full-scale performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

Unassuming charm & surprising sophistication: Bampton Classical Opera in the Italian version of Grétry's take on Beauty & the Beast

Manfred Honeck to become Philharmonia Orchestra's seventh principal conductor following on from Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Rehearsal studio, study, office, entertaining suite: Handel Hendrix House's new exhibition celebrates Handel's Brook Street residence

Choral music is flourishing in Taiwan: composer Will Todd on his experiences collaborating with the Soochow University Alumni Choir in Taiwan

Be still, and know that I am God: Choral Contemplations - Sacred Introits & Duets from Phoenix Consort & Adam Whitmore on Convivium Records

Darbar Festival: bringing the depth, discipline and sheer emotional power of Indian classical music to the widest possible audience

The belief that music, at its most vital, knows no borders: Icelandic record label/collective Bedroom Community is 20

Gerald Finzi: The Dance Continued - tenor Nick Pritchard & pianist Ian Tindale on their love for a composer whose work has followed them since their early collaboration at college

The engaging Mr Polly: tenor Robin Bailey shines in the title role of Edward Longstaff's new opera based on H.G. Wells at Tête à Tête

Scotland's tragic queen: Louisa Petaï & Louis Mander's Eight Days evokes the last days of Mary, Queen of Scots at Tête à Tête

From Mozartian connections in Salzburg & Vienna, to London success: Joseph Wölfl's Duos for Harp and Piano from Duo Praxedis on Toccata Classics

The young German conductor Patrick Lange announced as Opera North's next music director

Superbly realised: Elements from saxophonist Huw Wiggin & harpist Oliver Wass

The groundbreaking collaboration between the National Children’s Choir of Great Britain & learning disability charity Soundabout is now in its fourth year

An artist without the slightest spark of genius? Your chance to judge as Gothic Opera revives Fromental Halévy's rarely performed La Dame de Pique

Beyond Authenticity: The many voices of Period Performance at the Lammermuir Festival, some thoughts from joint artistic director James Waters

Reinventing the semi-opera: Vache Baroque collaborates with Out of Chaos to turn The Tempest into an evening of fun, modern theatre

Here Comes Everybody: composer Alastair White begins his Finnegans Wake project with an overture at London Irish Centre with Ensemble Exposé & Roger Redgate

By turns illuminating & compelling: the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on terrific form in Britten & Vaughan Williams at the BBC Proms

A new way of listening to the harpsichord: Katarzyna Kowalik's Meditations for Harpsichord

moon landing: composer Helen Caddick & textile artist Margo Selby's immersive cross-genre piece

Inside the Orchestra: the chance to find out what an orchestra sounds like when you are sitting inside it.

A highly intelligent & rather imaginative recital: Handel's Italians - Italian castrati in the London oratorios from Carlo Vistoli on Harmonia Mundi

August on Planet Hugill: St Francis of Assisi in Salzburg, Grande Messe des Morts at the Proms, Die Entführung at Glyndebourne