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.

THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS

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LETTER of the MONTH

Survey reveals lack of classical music knowledge in UK • However, majority of Brits also say they would like the opportunity to learn more

The keys to a rounded performance

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

Rising Stars • Three to look out for…

RPS Music Awards 2019 • Following her victory at this year’s Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, conductor Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla talks to Freya Parr

The rest of the best • The Royal Philharmonic Society Awards recipients in full

Sound Bites

Vienna’s Musikverein stages its first concert

Also in January 1870

Music to help you work Verdi hard

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

Christopher Gunning

Studio Secrets • We reveal who’s recording what and where...

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

Buried Treasure • Oboist Xenia Loeffler introduces three recordings from her own record collection

The art of Rossini

FAREWELL TO…

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

CRITIC’S CHOICE

CRITIC’S CHOICE

Our Choices • The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites

Richard Morrison • We should be grateful that rapper Kanye West has written an opera

Missionpossible • Nicola Benedetti has never been afraid of a challenge. Just as well, given that the top violinist’s latest project is her most ambitious to date. She tells Richard Morrison her bold plans to put music at the heart of UK society

The power of youth • UK music education foundations

From the recording studio • The best of Benedetti’s recent discs

Lawrence Power

20 years of Radio 3 talent • A New Generation celebration

The joy of six • Post-war France saw the old order booted aside in an attempt to restore morale to a bruised nation. Roger Nichols reveals how, 100 years ago, a group of young composers ushered in a bright new dawn

Best of The Six • The French group’s finest music

Winds of change • Over the centuries, social upheavals and changing musical fashions have both ravaged and transformed the English organ. Daniel Moult tells its story

Great sounds • Six vital English organs

15 categories of conductor • Studying great maestros past and present, Jeremy Pound gives a spotters’ guide to character types regularly seen on the podium

Megève France • Under the towering presence of Mont Blanc, Freya Parr visits a quiet town’s eclectic new festival celebrating music, art, food and cinema

Megève’s delicacies

Morton Feldman • The American composer has a cult following, says Claire Jackson, thanks to his radical experiments with musical time and form

Feldman’s style

FELDMAN Life&Times

Violin Concerto • Steph Power is entranced by all manner of dazzling soundworlds as she explores the best recordings of this 20th-century virtuoso showstopper

The composer

A truly phenomenal experience

Three other great recordings

Continue the journey… • Further works to enjoy after listening to Ligeti’s Violin Concerto

Reviews • 110 CDs, Books & DVDs rated by expert critics

Welcome

Epic vision makes this Samson the best yet • Berta Joncus delights in a glorious new take on Handel’s oratorio from John Butt, the...