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On October 16, Anna Clyne releases her portrait album, Mythologies, via AVIE Records, featuring five works by Clyne recorded live by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with soloists Jennifer Koh and Irene Buckley and Conductors Marin Alsop, Sakari Oramo, Andrew Litton, and André de Ridder.

Classic FM is teaming up with the Stay at Home Choir and Boosey & Hawkes for a special digital event celebrating the 20th anniversary of Karl Jenkins’s The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace.

Eighty-two years after its composition, a gem of the harp repertoire is finally available in a published edition by Boosey & Hawkes.

Ned Rorem, a titan of American classical music, turns 100 on October 23, 2023. Explore his vast catalog with our newly published guide to his works.

On August 29, Washington Performing Arts and the United States Air Force Band co-present a YouTube Live event exploring the history of flight and exploration, alongside Christopher Tin’s new oratorio To Shiver the Sky, based on the life of Amelia Earhart, and recently released on Decca Gold.

The premiere recording of Eric Whitacre’s The Sacred Veil, setting texts on love, life and death by Charles Anthony Silvestri, is released this month on Signum Classics. Performed as at its premiere by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the 53-minute score is Whitacre’s largest-scale work to date.

Jonathan Cross examines Stravinsky’s relationship with myth, faith and memory, 50 years after his death in 1971. Repertoire includes Oedipus Rex, Symphony of Psalms and a sequence of memorials stretching from Funeral Song to his own Requiem Canticles.

Chamber arrangements of beloved Bernstein classics, including a new edition of the Candide Overture for string orchestra, are now available for socially distanced performances.

The world premiere recording of Anna Clyne’s cello concerto DANCE, performed by cellist Inbal Segev, conductor Marin Alsop, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, has been met with international critical acclaim.

In August, Boosey & Hawkes and The Juilliard School co-presented a live score reading on YouTube of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic Symphony, with conductor David Robertson and musicians on the recording providing Live Chat commentary.

David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s one-act comedy Vinkensport, or the Finch Opera, is brought to the screen in October as part of Houston Grand Opera’s digital season. In December, Little’s powerful monodrama Soldier Songs is reimagined as a film by Opera Philadelphia for their new streaming service, the Opera Philadelphia Channel.

Boosey & Hawkes announces the signing of Serbian-Canadian composer Ana Sokolovic. The two-time JUNO Award winner, whose critically acclaimed operas have been performed around the world, will serve as composer-in-residence with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal for the next three seasons.

James MacMillan’s new Vidi aquam cascades across the 40 voice parts heard in Tallis’s choral masterpiece Spem in alium. The ORA Singers’ new recording is released on Harmonia Mundi on 21 August and the world premiere is livestreamed from Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall on 16 September.

September sees Mark Simpson travelling to Norway for a special feature at the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival, both as composer and performer. Highlights include Norwegian premieres of his ensemble works Straw Dogs and Geysir.

Digital products are now available directly from The Shop at Boosey.com and the ABRSM Shop for the first time.

SingFinzi2021, a new online singing competition, is announced by The Finzi Trust and Boosey & Hawkes to celebrate composer Gerald Finzi’s 120th birthday in 2021.

Composer Christopher Tin marks his signing to Decca Gold—his major label debut—with a new album release on August 21, To Shiver the Sky.

The international fall release of Brown’s new illustrated children’s book—with original music composed by the author—will be accompanied by concerts worldwide. A special US premiere of the symphonic suite is planned to take place in Brown’s hometown of Portsmouth.

Opera companies have seen theatres closed due to the COVID-19 crisis, with streamed performances offering a lifeline to audiences in lockdown. Now international companies are planning ahead towards gradual reopening with chamber opera repertoire.

A new album of piano works released by Nonesuch Records features pieces by Boosey composers Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, and John Adams, whose work I Still Play is also the titular track.