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

Gardner heads for the London Philharmonic • Orchestra names Brit as its new principal conductor to replace Jurowski

Malice in Sunderland as bagpiper told to keep quiet

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

Rising Stars • Three to look out for…

Sound Bites

Beethoven documents pain over encroaching deafness

Also in October 1802

Tree’s company for environmental choir

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

Cheryl Frances-Hoad • Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s first success as a composer came at 15 when she won the Lloyds Bank BBC Composer of the Year. She went on to study at the universities of Cambridge and London. Four discs of her music have been released, and on 27 Sept her new piano concerto, Between the Skies, the River and the Hills, is out on Rubicon.

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

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

Buried Treasure • Pianist Lucy Parham introduces us to three rarities from her own collection

Let’s hear it for Bruckner • Far from being meandering repetitive bore-fests, Bruckner’s symphonies are wonderful, strange and enigmatic works of genius, insists Tom Service

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 • Musicians need to examine their own contribution to climate change

The power of two • Husband and wife team Sir Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kožená have made music together for years, but their newest recording is their most personal project to date. Ivan Hewett meets them in Berlin and finds out what makes them tick

Kožená and Rattle on disc • Five unmissable recordings

From podium to piano • Maestros who returned to the stool

Omer Meir Wellber • As the Israeli conductor prepares to take over at the BBC Philharmonic, he talks to James Naughtie about the importance of great music in our shifting political landscape

Opening bars • Wellber’s first BBC Phil season

2019/20 NEW SEASON GUIDE • A sneak preview of the very best live performances in the UK and abroad

The Flanders Symphony Orchestra • The Flanders Symphony Orchestra prepares to welcome the brilliant Kristiina Poska as its next chief conductor, the latest in a long line of outstanding Estonian maestros

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

OperaVision • From Acher to Zajc and Antwerp to Zagreb, OperaVision serves up a brilliantly diverse selection of operas from Europe and beyond – free, live and on demand

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

The Grange Festival • A summer festival like nothing you have seen before. Experience world-class opera in a spectacular English country house setting that is second to none

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment • Playing instruments from the time the music was written, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment makes old music new

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra • Join the CBSO as it begins the first of two very special centenary seasons with music director Mirga Gražinyte -Tyla

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

Barbican Centre • An outstanding international programme brings together great artists, orchestras and ensembles from classical, contemporary and...