Join soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn for the launch of Claires new album Cocteaus Music, an intimate programme exploring Jean Cocteaus extraordinary artistic world. Featuring music by Poulenc, Milhaud, Auric and Delage, Claire will perform selected works and discuss the writings, friendships and creative circle of one of 20th-century Frances most compelling cultural figures. A little more about Cocteaus music Jean Cocteau was not a composer in the conventional sense, but music ran through his artistic world. His writing, films and collaborations were closely bound up with figures such as Satie, Stravinsky and Les Six, creating an atmosphere that is elegant, theatrical, surreal and unmistakably French. Claire Booths new album Cocteaus Music invites listeners into that world a place where poetry, myth and sound meet, and where music becomes part of Cocteaus strange, luminous imagination.

Join composer, songwriter and conductor Mike Batt at Presto Music for a special event celebrating his new release, Symphony No. 1 Ukraine , performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. This powerful 37-minute symphony is melodic, dramatic and deeply expressive a bold new orchestral work written in response to the invasion of Ukraine, but designed to resonate far beyond its original inspiration.

Join us for an evening with conductor Michael Waldron, founder of the London Choral Sinfonia and award-winning young composer Edward Picton-Turberville to celebrate their new album Eden: The Music of Edward Picton Turberville , launching on Orchid Classics, June 2026. Interwoven with live performance and listening extracts, the pair discuss the creation of the album and reveal their approach to recording and capturing its spellbinding soundscape.