Schott Music

We are delighted to announce that future works by British composer and jazz-trombonist Alex Paxton will be published by Schott Music! 🎶🍓

His energetic, genre-blending music—described as “unbridled joy… full of pulsating energy”

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Stephen Hough plays Grieg's Piano Concerto The BBC SSO celebrates 90 years with music by Grieg, Tippett and Ayanna Witter-Johnson.

Tippett's 'A Child of Our Time' tonight with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth leading the National Youth Choir of Scotland and a distinguished quartet of soloists: Pumeza Matshikiza, Beth Taylor, John Findon and Ashley Riches

📻Tune in at 7:30! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We are delighted to share that two of our composers have been nominated in this year’s #ivorsclassicalawards

In the choral category, Julian Anderson’s Nothing At All, for eight unaccompanied voices, in the chamber category, John Casken’s Mantle for piano and wind quintet

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✨OUT TODAY!✨British Piano Concertos🎹

A new album celebrating the rich sound world of 20th-century British music. Featuring Sir Michael Tippett’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Performed by pianist Clare Hammond, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and George Vass.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra open their season with the Scottish premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth's 'for Laura, after Bach'

in memory of their former leader Laura Samuel.

Listen on BBC Radio 3 tonight at 19:30
➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Calling all musicians and creatives – final call for Tippett Foundation Grants 2025!

Are you planning a performance or recording of music by Michael Tippett? The Tippett Foundation is now accepting final applications for 2025.

🗓 Apply by 30 September 2025
📖 Guidelines: tippettfoundation.org.uk

🚨OUT TODAY🚨The @lporchestra.bsky.social's latest album! Tippett’s "A Child of Our Time"

With Ed Gardner, the London Adventist Chorale, Nadine Benjamin, Sarah Connolly, Kenneth Tarver and Roderick Williams.

Listen here: open.spotify.com/album/1gO6pZ...

BBC Proms: Barruk, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Kuusisto review - vague incantations, precise laments Every year, the Royal Albert Hall proves complicit in the magic of the quietest utterances if, as Barenboim put it, you let the audience come to you and don’t try too hard. Pekka Kuusisto is the ultim...

★★★★ #BBCProms #KatarinaBarruk #NorwegianChamberOrchestra, #PekkaKuusisto - Vague incantations, precise laments, as a first-half mix of #Sámi songs and string things falters, but #Shostakovich scours the soul - review @davidnice.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

A weekend highlight at the BBC Proms: a programme of folk songs and dances, featuring Tippett’s “Triumph”, a paraphrase from “The Mask of Time” and a selection of Grainger works🎶

The @londonsymphony.bsky.social wind and brass shone under the direction of Ryan Bancroft — bravo!

The great Russian composer and pianist Rodion Shchedrin has died at the age of 92.

www.schott-music.com/en/blog/rodi...

Oulu Sinfonia Open | Oulu Sinfonia Oulu Sinfonia Open presents three unforgettable concerts at the Hupisaari Open-Air Theatre with Rumon Gamba. Thu.14.8.2025 starting at 17.00.

Tippett and Bryars at the Hupisaari Open-Air Theatre today🎭

The Oulu Sinfonia perform Tippett's 'Little Music' in programme of British composers, chosen by Chief Conductor Rumon Gamba

🌜At 10pm, the night closes with Bryars' The Sinking of the Titanic

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BBC Radio 3 - Classical Live, Steve Martland's Street Songs from Edinburgh plus Stravinsky from the Proms Summer music making from across Europe including highlights from the BBC Proms

📻Tune in to BBC Radio 3 at 1:00pm today to hear Steve Martland's Street Songs!

Performed by The Kings Singers and Colin Currie at the Edinburgh International Festival earlier this month🎪

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Three Premieres in three countries today!

🎶Huw Watkins - Stolen Songs: James Gilchrist, Adrian Adlam, Kirche St. Georg

🎼Gavin Bryars - String Quartet No. 6: Quatuor Béla, Eglise d'Ayn

🎻Julian Anderson - String Quartet No. 4: US premiere; Escher Quartet, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

We are very sad to hear that Amelia Freedman CBE has passed away. Her visionary leadership shaped the Nash Ensemble into one of the UK’s foremost champions of British music. The ensemble became a lifelong home for many, commissioning over 330 works from 225 composers.

Tribute: nashensemble.org.uk

Ryedale Festival presents Tippett's Crown of the Year! A rarely heard chamber cantata, described by Sir Andrew Davis as one of Tippett’s greatest works

Brought to life by star singers and the Ryedale Ensemble✨ Pre concert talk with Oliver Soden

ryedalefestival.com/event/crown-...

⭐Read the latest Schott Spotlight⭐

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As festival season begins, we're taking a look at what's coming up in the world of contemporary classical music!

YouTube video by Darragh Morgan Gerald Barry - Etudes

🚨OUT NOW🚨 Gerald Barry's Etudes for solo violin, performed and recorded by Darragh Morgan🎻

WATCH HERE: youtube.com/watch?v=gMwb...

FIND OUT MORE HERE: bvcj6.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/mr/sh/1t6...

🎻 World Premiere Tonight!
Sebastian Hilli's Violin Concerto "1977"

With the extraordinary Pekka Kuusisto as the soloist, joined by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Nicholas Collon ✨

Watch the livestream here👉 worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/...

Joy, sorrow and accordions: Ksenija Sidorova Accordionist extraordinaire talks about performing a new concerto by Bulgarian composer Dobrinka Tabakova, and taking it home to the Sofia Philharmonic in June.

Joy, sorrow and accordions: Ksenija Sidorova talks to Simon Cummings about performing a new concerto by Bulgarian composer Dobrinka Tabakova
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Jack Sheen, London Symphony Orchestra - The Panufnik Legacies IV Listen to The Panufnik Legacies IV by Jack Sheen, London Symphony Orchestra.

🚨New Album Alert🚨
Panufnik Legacies IV – out 6 June 🎶
Featuring music by Daniel Kidane and others!

Pre-order now 👉 lnk.to/ThePanufnikL...

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Presenting the newest album in our Panufnik series...🥁
Panufnik Legacies IV!

Get to know the new single with composer Cassie Kinoshi! Just imagine Nina Simone meets self love, and all in an orchestral composition.

Go have a listen ahead of the album release on 6 June:
lnk.to/ThePanufnikL...

BBC - BBC National Orchestra of Wales - BBC NOW Digital Concerts BBC NOW Digital Concerts

✨Tune in to the live broadcast of BBC NOW's concert this evening at 19:30✨

Featuring the UK premiere of Jörg Widmann's Violin Concerto No. 2 with soloist Carolin Widmann🎻

Also in the programme: Mozart's Figaro Overture and Mendelssohn's 5th Symphony

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

Fantastic premiere of Huw Watkins' Concerto for Orchestra with @thehalle.bsky.social last weekend — and a great pre-concert talk with @tommckinney.bsky.social and Sir Mark Elder!

Catch the BBC Radio 3Live in Concert broadcast on 5 June at 19:30.

📻Tune in: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Crossing the Border Steve Martland, Steve Martland Band · Martland · Song · 2015

Died #OTD in 2013, English composer & teacher, Steve Martland. His string ensemble work, Crossing the Border, premiered in Gdansk in October 1991. The composer conducted the Warsaw Academy Symphony Orchestra. open.spotify.com/track/4IuJsG... #britsymphyear

This afternoon at Wigmore Hall🎶
Ensemble intercontemporain, conducted by Ustina Dubitsky, with Hanzhi Wang perform a new work for accordion by Katherine Balch — whose evocative scores embrace everyday sounds and weave them into extraordinary tapestries of instrumental colour and energy⚡️

Hello Bluesky!
If you're in Leeds, don't miss a special memorial performance for Alexander Goehr tomorrow at @universityofleeds.bsky.social 🎶

University of Leeds students will perform Sandy’s 'manere' 🎻

📆 2 May 2025 | 🕕 18:00
📍 Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds