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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LETTER of the MONTH

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Andrei Kymach wins BBC Cardiff Singer of the World • Ukrainian baritone’s Donizetti, Bizet and Rachmaninov secures competition glory

Winners and finalists

Unfinished symphony to raise money for cancer cure

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

Rising Stars • Three to look out for…

Sound Bites

Milan’s La Scala welcomes its first opera audiences

Also in August 1778

Farnon’s supersonic supertonics fly again

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

Daniel Kidane

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

Great artists talk about their past recordings • This month: SOL GABETTA Cellist

Buried Treasure • Violinist Augustin Hadelich introduces three rarities from his record collection

The Fifth Dimension

Cleobury swaps King’s for knight

FAREWELL TO…

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

CRITIC’S CHOICE

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

Richard Morrison • There’s still a lot to learn from the Victorians when it comes to music

The POWER of PUCCINI • His operas are some of the most popular ever written, moving audiences like no others. But the Italian composer was also a daring innovator whose creative genius took opera to new places, as Christopher Cook explains

Life in the fast lane • Puccini’s love of bikes, cars and boats

Puccini’s operas on disc • Our recommended recordings

Free kicks and French kisses • Puccini’s music in popular culture

Perfect Puccini • Seven leading performers and directors reveal which of the composer’s operas they wouldn’t ever want to live without

Jamie Barton

The magnificent mezzo • Barton’s blazing trail to the top

Sacred heart • Following the horrendous fire that raged through Paris’s Notre Dame in April, Edward Higginbottom pays homage to the magnificent cathedral’s important contribution to our musical history

The final chord

From where I sit • Olivier Latry on the evolution of Notre Dame’s legendary organ

Pushing the limits • Claire Jackson explores a wonderful array of new sounds being created by composers and musicians through the use of ‘extended techniques’

Extended listening • Five fine examples

The Sounds of Silents • His name and face are iconic, but what about the music? Jim Lochner explores the genius of Charlie Chaplin, an Oscar-winning composer

Chaplin at 130 • Celebrating the silent star

15 cinematic nights out • Geoff Brown heads to the movies to find out just what happens when film characters visit the opera house and concert hall

The Good Life Experience Wales • Oliver Condy packs his tent for three idyllic days of the best music, food, crafts and ale in a secluded, unspoilt corner of north Wales

This year’s line-up

Barbara Strozzi • Hannah French marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of a remarkable Venetian whose exquisite vocal works are without parallel

Strozzi’s style

STROZZI Life&Times

Symphony No. 8 Dmitri Shostakovich • Erik Levi names the best recordings of the Soviet composer’s powerful portrayal of the terror, destruction and bleak aftermath of World War II

The composer

Three other great...