Weekly Highlights
This week's classical highlights
Week of 14 September 2026
Here are this week's highlights from the calendar which still have ticket availability!
Thu 17 September · 19:30
Kazuki conducts Mahler’s 2nd Symphony
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra · Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Birmingham · from £27.5
Mahler intended this massive work to represent the cycle of life, death, and what follows, ending in a transcendent choral finale. With Kazuki Yamada guiding a huge orchestra and chorus, it is a rare chance to sit inside a wall of sound that is both overwhelming and profoundly human.
Thu 17 September · 19:30
The Journey: 25 Years of Tenebrae
Tenebrae · St Martin-in-the-Fields, London · from £10
Fri 18 September · 19:00
North Wales International Music Festival
BBC National Orchestra of Wales · St Asaph Cathedral, St Asaph
Escape the rush with an evening of music dedicated to the natural world and the soaring sound of the harp. You will hear the familiar, tranquil melodies of The Lark Ascending alongside Beethoven’s celebration of the countryside, all performed within the intimate, historic surroundings of the cathedral.
Sat 19 September · 19:15
Bluebeard’s Castle + Oedipus Rex
Welsh National Opera · Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
This pairing offers two stark perspectives on destiny and hidden secrets through some of the twentieth century’s most haunting music. You get the psychological tension of a locked-door mystery followed by a Greek tragedy, making it a powerful introduction to the darker, more theatrical side of the operatic stage.
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