BBC Music Magazine

BBC Music Magazine is a must for anyone with a passion for classical music. Classical music connoisseurs and new enthusiast alike will enjoy the fascinating features and reviews of over 120 new works in every issue.

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The full score • Our pick of the month’s news, views and interviews

BBC sells Maida Vale Studios… but the music will play on

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

SoundBites

RisingStars • Three to look out for…

OCTOBER 2003 Disney and Gehry give the LA Phil a flash new home

Also in October 2003…

Blooming voices make their recorded debut

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

MEET THE COMPOSER Thomas Simaku

StudioSecrets

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

MyHero

All the sounds of his age

FAREWELL TO…

Music to my ears • What the classical world has been listening to this month

Our Choices The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites

OCTOBER RELEASES

Richard Morrison • Despite the hardships of the times, Handel lived his life to the fullest

Guitarhero • With Sean Shibe you can always expect the unexpected, but there’s nothing frivolous about this boundary-pushing musician, as Michael Beek discovers

In Julian Bream’s footsteps • But not riding his coat tails…

Sean Shibe in the studio • The first six album recordings

Kit Armstrong

Essential lessons • Armstrong on Alfred Brendel

Wonder Woman • Broadcaster Clemency Burton-Hill’s Year of Wonder series is inspiring a whole range of devoted listeners through a new book club run by the Boise Philharmonic; Rebecca Franks joins one of their sessions

Wonderwall • Inspirational books

For the masses • Conceived during the pandemic, The English Concert’s Handel for All project aims to make all of the composer’s works freely available online, as music director Harry Bicket tells Clive Paget

Singing for supper • Birth of the oratorio

Walk of Fame • From Beverly Hills to Brentwood – passing Palm Springs – Brian Wise reveals the former famous musical inhabitants of California’s City of Angels

Golden State sounds • Capturing California

A secret language • With her disparate range of inspirations, from sean-nós singing to artificial intelligence, composer Jennifer Walshe is at once an ancient and modern advocate for all things Irish, as she tells Tom Stewart

Relying on instinct • Free improvisation

Icons Rediscovered 2023-24 London Season

Season’s greetings LIVE MUSIC GUIDE 2023/24 • It’s full steam ahead as ensembles and venues usher in a packed new year

KINGS PLACE

Europe

USA & Canada

Rest of the World

Spetses Greece • Charlotte Smith visits the island paradise with a proud naval history, newly enhanced by a Music Academy for young performers

Charles Villiers Stanford • The man who taught many of Britain’s finest talents deserves greater far recognition as a composer in his own right, says Terry Blain

Stanford’s style

STANFORD Life&Times

Carl Orff Carmina Burana • Frolics on the lawn and a rowdy pub session entertain Jeremy Pound as he hunts for the best recordings of Orff’s characterful choral work

A scintillating Orff experience

Continue the journey… • We suggest five further works to explore after Orff’s Carmina...