SOMM Recordings is to release a double CD set of Stanford’s last opera, The Travelling Companion on September 27th, 2019. This is the first commercial recording of any of Stanford’s nine completed operas. The recording was made by SOMM during a live performance of the opera by the New

The Lyrita record labelhas released a first recording of Stanford’s Mass Via Victrix (Op. 173) in May 2019. (Lyrita SRCD 382).The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and their Chorus and soloists are conducted by Adrian Partington. The sixty-eight minute work was written by Stanford in 19

The 2019 Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester is to present Stanford’s Songs of Sea in a concert at Gloucester Cathedral with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony on Friday August 2nd. 2019. Martyn Brabbins will conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra with Roderick Williams as baritone so

The Dante Quartet recorded Stanford’s String Quartets Numbers 1 and 6 on March 5th and 6th, 2019 at St. Nicholas Church in Thames Ditton to complete their cycle of Stanford’s String Quartets for SOMM Recordings. This is the first project to record the complete cycle of Stanford’s Quar

Stanford’s first opera, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, is to be given in a concert performance at 5.00pm on Monday 28th October, 2019 at the Wexford Opera Festival in Ireland. The Veiled Prophet was completed in February 1879 and given its premier in Hanover, Germany on 6th February