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LETTER of the MONTH
New evidence questions date of Beethoven’s deafness • Research into the composer’s ‘conversation books’ casts light on his hearing decline
Vladimir Ashkenazy brings glittering career to a close
THE MONTH IN NUMBERS
Rising Stars • Three to look out for…
Sound Bites
Enrique Granados drowns in the English Channel
Also in March 1916
Wind power on the rise as AAM goes green
DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…
Rhian Samuel
Studio Secrets • We reveal who’s recording what and where...
REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings
Buried Treasure • Conductor Gergely Madaras introduces three rarities from his own collection
Will we run out of tunes?
FAREWELL TO…
Music to my ears • What the classical world has been listening to this month
CRITIC’S CHOICE
CRITIC’S CHOICE
Our Choices • The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites
Richard Morrison • Why Arts Council England should stop lecturing and start listening
Voice of a century • Enrico Caruso set the standard against which all great tenors have since been measured. George Hall celebrates a legend whose voice changed opera houses and recording studios forever
The Mario Lanza effect • Hollywood’s popular Caruso biopic
Vocal recall • Roberto Alagna on Caruso’s voice
Noriko Ogawa
Ogawa on disc
The beating heart • Founded 100 years ago, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has always prided itself on bold ambition and appetite for the new. Richard Bratby looks at how the ensemble has been shaped by its conductors and Midlands home city
The CBSO at 100
Symphony Hall
Renaissance Man • Few conductors can segue from Hollywood to Holst, MGM musicals to Massenet with the ease of John Wilson. Jessica Duchen meets him as he reforms an iconic super-orchestra and embarks on a new series of recordings
Sinfonia scores
Star of the East • Encouraged by Shostakovich, Sofia Gubaidulina ignored criticism from Soviet authorities to become a world-renowned composer. Daniel Jaffé hears her story
Power of three
Great Gubaidulina
Riga Latvia • The new Riga-Jurmala Music Festival hopes to put Latvia on the map as a destination for world-class orchestras, discovers Rebecca Franks
Latvia’s Edinburgh
Grazyna Bacewicz • One of Poland’s most brilliant composers, Bacewicz is finally taking her rightful place on the international stage, says John Allison
Bacewicz’s style
BACEWICZ Life&Times
Préludes Claude Debussy • From sunken cathedrals to drunken minstrels, Debussy’s depictions for piano captivate Francis Pott in his search for the best recordings
The composer
Eloquent, characterful playing
Three other great recordings
Continue the journey… • We suggest further works to explore after hearing Debussy’s Préludes
Welcome
Triumph and tragedy in a memorable Tenth • This recording of Shostakovich by the late Mariss Jansons is a fitting testament to the conductor’s talents, says Stephen Johnson
An interview with Nikolaus Pont
Orchestral
This persuasive Pastoral is enlightening • Stephen Johnson hears Vaughan Williams’s Third Symphony in a new way
From the archives • Andrew...