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

Jewish musicians remembered in new exhibition • The Royal Academy of Music to tell the tragic story of Arnold and Alma Rosé

Here’s a litter bit of music we made earlier…

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

Rising Stars • Three to look out for…

Sound Bites

Pianist Van Cliburn causes a major shock in Moscow

Also in April 1958

Violinist teams up with Schubert and Baaach

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

Edward Gregson

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

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

Buried Treasure • Flautist Ana de la Vega introduces three lesser-known works from her collection

A little night music

FAREWELL TO…

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

READER CHOICE

READER CHOICE

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

Richard Morrison • The dilemmas of planning my two-year-old daughter’s music education

Agony & Ecstasy • Pianist Angela Hewitt reaches the culmination of her Bach Odyssey this summer with medals and prizes in the UK and Germany. Yet her remarkable journey has recently suffered a major setback, finds Claire Jackson

Pilgrims’ progresses • More major musical journeys

Keyboard warrior • Five Bach masterpieces to head for

Sharon Isbin

Five female guitarists

Brief Encounter • How do you attract first-timers to concerts? Classical music newbie Ian Taylor heads to the Royal Festival Hall to see if its new scheme can get him hooked

Continue the journey • Roderick Williams’s tips

The only way is app! • Should you ditch your sheet music and embrace tablet technology? Concert pianist Lucy Parham tests the latest score-reading apps

Wrong turns

Foot servants • Page-turning kit to buy

Out of the ordinary • Whether it be coffee houses, tax returns or AGMs, composers have wrought remarkable music from the unremarkable. Geoff Brown goes in search of works that celebrate life in its most mundane forms

Existing in a vacuum • Instruments contrived from everyday objects

FESTIVAL GUIDE 2020

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Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany • The Richard Strauss Festival celebrates the German composer while providing an idyllic escape from the daily grind, finds Michael Beek

Fantasy in the foothills

Felix Mendelssohn • Wagner’s attempts to tarnish his reputation did not prevent Mendelssohn becoming Romantic music’s guiding light, says Stephen Johnson

Mendelssohn’s style

MENDELSSOHN Life &Times

Parsifal Richard Wagner • With unshakeable resolve, Michael Tanner sets out in his noble quest to find the finest recordings of Wagner’s final operatic masterpiece

The composer

A Parsifal touched with...