On the 7th of November 2025 Sony Classical released the single "Epilogue" through streaming media. The 4 minute track, a reflective composition for piano and violin played by Rachel Portman and Niklas Liepe, is the closing part of the "Tipping Points" violin concerto released in 2024. On release of the single Rachel Portman commented "Excited to share my new single Epilogue, a call to arms for our forests, with sublime violin playing by Niklas Liepe".
The new single is the 6th in a series of singles published in 2025, all songs are planned for release on an upcoming album in 2026, in collaboration with instrumentalists Niklas Liepe and Martin Fröst.
On Saturday November 1st 2025 Rachel Portman will join Edith Bowman on the BBC 3 radio show 'Sound of Cinema', broadcast at 16:00 UTC.
Edith Bowman is the new presenter of Sound of Cinema, BBC's flagship programme celebrating film music. Her debut show on 1 November includes an exclusive conversation with Oscar-winning composer Rachel Portman, with future guests set to include Alan Silvestri, Dame Emma Thompson and Graham Norton.
Edith said: “Film and music are two of my passions that I’m very lucky to enthuse about in my work. I’m excited to add Sound of Cinema to that, and to share so much incredible music with the audience.”
On the 3rd of September 2025 soprano Alexandra Marie performed a program featuring works by women composers, spanning from the early twentieth century to the present. Part of this performance at the Southwest Regional Library-Pembroke Pines included a song by Rachel Portman titled 'There Will Be A Place', a composition that premiered in London on the 20th of January 2024 at a performance by soprano Lucy Crowe and pianist Anna Tilbrook. A recording of the performance by Alexandra Marie can be viewed here.
On the 5th of September 2025 Sony Classical released the single "The Swallow" through streaming media. The 3:33 minute track is a reflective composition for piano and violin, and is played by Rachel Portman and Niklas Liepe. On release Rachel Portman commented "Every year I feel moved to see the first swallow arrive at the farm after its long arduous flight from sub-Saharan Africa. This song is written for the first swallow, chattering outside my window, waiting on the telegraph wire for a fellow one to join".
The new single is the fifth in a series of singles published in 2025, after "Hannah's Song" (February 28th), "Eventide" (April 10th), "Moment In Time" (May 16th) and "June" (June 27th). All songs are planned for release on a new upcoming album in 2026, in collaboration with instrumentalists Niklas Liepe and Martin Fröst.
On Saturday September 13th 2025 at 17:00 Rachel Portman will join Jess Gillam in an episode of "This Classical Life" on BBC radio 3, to share some of her favourite music, on the same day her new work ‘The Gathering Tree’ receives its world premiere at the BBC Proms. Rachel's wide-ranging music choices include Handel, Steve Reich and Joni Mitchell. Jess has music from Tchaikovsky, the mysterious Italian baroque composer Bernardo Storace, and American saxophonist Eddie Barbash.