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BBC Music Magazine

Dec 01 2019
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

Welcome

BBC Music Magazine

Have your say…

LETTER of the MONTH

Plácido Domingo leaves LA Opera and NY Met • Star ends key partnerships with US organisations following press allegations

English National Opera invites artists to draw the curtains

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

Rising Stars • Three to look out for…

Sound Bites

Handel’s coat button saves him in a sword fight

Also in December 1704

Root notes, swede music and a touch of glass

History just keeps on repeating itself…

Rebecca Saunders

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

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

Buried Treasure • Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen introduces three cherished recordings

The world of wobble

FAREWELL TO…

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

CRITIC’S CHOICE

The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites

Richard Morrison • What’s so wrong with listening to classical music simply to ‘relax’?

The 50 GREATEST COMPOSERS of all time • Who do today’s leading composers rate as the finest? We asked 174 of them that very question and here, in their own words, we present the fascinating results

Music missing in action • Composers who failed to make the cut

In search of the best • BBC Music Magazine’s previous polls

OUT NOW ON NONESUCH

And the winner is... • Could it be anyone else? Johann Sebastian Bach tops the list with music of breathtaking brilliance

How they voted • So who were the 174 composers who took part in our poll? Over the next three pages, we list them all and the five composers each voted for

Poll chancers • The composer votes that surprised us

Iván Fischer

Hungarian fantasies • Fischer and the BFO on disc

The big bang • What are percussion’s most exciting and precarious orchestral moments? Amanda Holloway talks to ten players about the bars that get their hearts pumping

Beat masters • Five percussionists who became conductors

All in good taste • Opera is packed with sex, violence and risqué material, so do audiences need to be warned? Brian Wise explores the rise of movie-style ratings for productions

Aisle be gone • Music’s famous walkouts

Singapore • Slowly but surely, Western classical music is earning itself a loyal fan base in this young city state, finds new resident Elizabeth Davis

Music in miniature

Hildegard von Bingen • The 12th-century nun’s influential work represents an important development in the history of music, says Fiona Maddocks

Sense of style

HILDEGARD Life&Times

Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’ Felix Mendelssohn • From stormy scenes to lively dances, Terry Williams gazes northwards as he names the best recordings of a Romantic symphonic masterwork

The composer

A lean and balanced performance

Three other great recordings

Continue the journey… • Further works to explore after Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ Symphony

Welcome

Shostakovich sonatas reveal ferocious talent • David Nice is impressed by pianist Andrey Gugnin’s technical prowess as he takes on some of the composer’s most testing works

An interview with Andrey Gugnin

Orchestral

Rattle’s best of British is an unadorned pleasure • Malcolm Hayes finds there is no need for...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 138 Publisher: Our Media Limited Edition: Dec 01 2019

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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

Welcome

BBC Music Magazine

Have your say…

LETTER of the MONTH

Plácido Domingo leaves LA Opera and NY Met • Star ends key partnerships with US organisations following press allegations

English National Opera invites artists to draw the curtains

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

Rising Stars • Three to look out for…

Sound Bites

Handel’s coat button saves him in a sword fight

Also in December 1704

Root notes, swede music and a touch of glass

History just keeps on repeating itself…

Rebecca Saunders

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

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

Buried Treasure • Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen introduces three cherished recordings

The world of wobble

FAREWELL TO…

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

CRITIC’S CHOICE

The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites

Richard Morrison • What’s so wrong with listening to classical music simply to ‘relax’?

The 50 GREATEST COMPOSERS of all time • Who do today’s leading composers rate as the finest? We asked 174 of them that very question and here, in their own words, we present the fascinating results

Music missing in action • Composers who failed to make the cut

In search of the best • BBC Music Magazine’s previous polls

OUT NOW ON NONESUCH

And the winner is... • Could it be anyone else? Johann Sebastian Bach tops the list with music of breathtaking brilliance

How they voted • So who were the 174 composers who took part in our poll? Over the next three pages, we list them all and the five composers each voted for

Poll chancers • The composer votes that surprised us

Iván Fischer

Hungarian fantasies • Fischer and the BFO on disc

The big bang • What are percussion’s most exciting and precarious orchestral moments? Amanda Holloway talks to ten players about the bars that get their hearts pumping

Beat masters • Five percussionists who became conductors

All in good taste • Opera is packed with sex, violence and risqué material, so do audiences need to be warned? Brian Wise explores the rise of movie-style ratings for productions

Aisle be gone • Music’s famous walkouts

Singapore • Slowly but surely, Western classical music is earning itself a loyal fan base in this young city state, finds new resident Elizabeth Davis

Music in miniature

Hildegard von Bingen • The 12th-century nun’s influential work represents an important development in the history of music, says Fiona Maddocks

Sense of style

HILDEGARD Life&Times

Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’ Felix Mendelssohn • From stormy scenes to lively dances, Terry Williams gazes northwards as he names the best recordings of a Romantic symphonic masterwork

The composer

A lean and balanced performance

Three other great recordings

Continue the journey… • Further works to explore after Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ Symphony

Welcome

Shostakovich sonatas reveal ferocious talent • David Nice is impressed by pianist Andrey Gugnin’s technical prowess as he takes on some of the composer’s most testing works

An interview with Andrey Gugnin

Orchestral

Rattle’s best of British is an unadorned pleasure • Malcolm Hayes finds there is no need for...


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