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

Live music returns to concert halls and opera houses • Tentative steps are being made to bring performance back to venues

A very different season

Revealing the roots of a great composer

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

Sound Bites

Rising Stars • Three to look out for…

Elgar lends his composing talents to the Polish cause

Also in July 1915

German pianist puts himself in the driving seat

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

Jennifer Higdon • Over the last two decades Jennifer Higdon has become one of the busiest and most-performed composers in the US, as well as the winner of a Pulitzer Prize and three Grammys. Several recordings are in the pipeline, not to mention the forthcoming Philadelphia premiere of her new chamber opera, Woman With Eyes Closed.

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

REWIND Great artists talk about their past recordings • This month: SANDRINE PIAU Soprano

Buried Treasure

Vive la différence!

FAREWELL TO…

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

READERS’ CHOICE

READERS’ CHOICE

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

Richard Morrison • Coronavirus is going to change the world’s classical music scene forever

The great adventurer • Whether exploring the Silk Road or ranging from Bach to bluegrass, there are few paths that cellist Yo-Yo Ma fears to tread. As he tells Helen Wallace, crossing musical and cultural boundaries are as important to him as ever

Yo-Yo Ma: the story so far • A colourful career in brief

A joyful musical partnership • Kathryn Stott on 35 years in tandem

Paavo Järvi

The Pärnu Music Festival • Top concerts on the Baltic coast

The Perfectstorm • Musical storms, real and metaphorical, are often a composer’s calling card says Malcolm Hayes, who guides us through some of the most vivid

Big bangs • Some tools of the trade

Home comforts • Leading classical musicians explain to us how they have faced up to the coronavirus lockdown by shifting the concert stage to their own living rooms

A Manns for all seasons • Andrew Green tells how the arrival of a workaholic German conductor at Crystal Palace in 1854 gave classical music in the UK a major boost

A blazing finale • Crystal Palace succumbs to fire

Major minors • Whether they were little darlings or complete tearaways, all of these children grew up to be great composers. Can you name them?

Tetbury England • When summer turns to autumn, a fine festival welcomes classical music fans to this characterful Cotswold town, reports Jeremy Pound

A region of riches

Franz Lehár • George Hall looks at the life and music of a composer who brought both huge popularity and a new respect to the world of operetta

Lehár’s style

LEHÁR Life&Times

Romeo and Juliet Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • From the sound of flashing blades to one of music’s most recognisable love themes, Jessica Duchen revels in Tchaikovsky’s fantasy-overture

The composer

A heart-on-sleeve experience

Three other great recordings

Continue the journey… • We suggest works to explore after Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and...