1925 in British music

This is a summary of 1925 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

 * 3 April – Gustav Holst's opera At the Boar's Head is premiered in Manchester.
 * date unknown
 * After a spell of ill-health, Gustav Holst returns to teach at St Paul's Girls' School.
 * William Walton dedicates the score of his Portsmouth Point to his patron Siegfried Sassoon, who had recommended it be published by Oxford University Press.

Popular music

 * Mai Jones – "Blackbirds"

Classical music: new works

 * Frank Bridge –
 * "Golden Hair", for voice and piano
 * "Journey's End", for tenor or high baritone and piano
 * The Pneu World, for cello and piano
 * Songs of Rabindranath Tagore (3), for voice and piano, or voice and orchestra
 * Vignettes de Marseille, for piano
 * Winter Pastorale, for piano
 * Eric Coates – 2 Light Syncopated Pieces
 * Walford Davies – Men and Angels, for chorus and orchestra, Op. 51
 * Frederick Delius – A Late Lark, for voice and orchestra
 * Edward Elgar –
 * "The Herald", part-song
 * "The Prince of Sleep", part-song
 * Gustav Holst –
 * "God Is Love, His the Care", for choir
 * Hymns (4) for Songs of Praise, for choir
 * Motets (2), for choir
 * Ode to C.K.S. and the Oriana, for choir
 * Terzetto for flute, oboe and viola
 * Herbert Howells – Piano Concerto No. 2
 * John Ireland – Two Pieces for Piano (1925)
 * Ernest John Moeran – Bank Holiday
 * Ralph Vaughan Williams –
 * Concerto Accademico for violin and strings
 * Flos Campi, for viola, wordless choir, and small orchestra
 * Hymns (5) for Songs of Praise, for choir
 * Two Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan, for voice and piano
 * Three Songs from Shakespeare, for voice and piano
 * Three Poems by Walt Whitman, for baritone and piano
 * William Walton – Portsmouth Point, concert overture
 * Peter Warlock – "A Prayer to St Anthony"

Opera

 * Armstrong Gibbs – Blue Peter
 * Gustav Holst – At the Boar's Head

Musical theatre

 * Betty in Mayfair, with music by Harold Fraser-Simson and lyrics by Harry Graham
 * Charlot's Revue of 1925
 * Dear Little Billie, with music by H.B. Hedley & Jack Strachey and lyrics by Desmond Carter
 * Love's Prisoner with music, book and lyrics by Reginald Hargreaves
 * On with the Dance, written and composed by Noël Coward and Philip Braham

Publications

 * William Wallace – Richard Wagner as he lived

Births

 * 17 February – Ron Goodwin, film composer (d. 2003)
 * 8 March – Dennis Lotis, South African-born singer (d. 2023)
 * 22 March – Gerard Hoffnung, cartoonist, comedian, musician (d. 1959)
 * 23 March – Monica Sinclair, operatic contralto (d. 2002)
 * 18 June – Johnny Pearson, composer, orchestra leader and pianist (d. 2011)
 * 16 July - Johnny Brandon, singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
 * 2 September – Russ Conway, pianist (d. 2000)
 * 20 September – James Bernard, film composer (d. 2001)
 * 1 October – Alan Styler, operatic baritone (d. 1970)
 * 11 October – David Hughes, operatic tenor (d. 1972)
 * 31 December – Daphne Oram, composer and electronic musician (d. 2003)

Deaths

 * 1 March - Thomas Bidgood, conductor, composer and arranger, 66 (suicide)
 * 22 March – Marie Brema, concert mezzo-soprano, 69
 * 1 April - Francis William Davenport, composer and music writer
 * 13 November – Edward Frank Lambert, composer (born 1868)