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BBC Music Magazine

Mar 01 2020
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

Welcome

BBC Music Magazine

Have your say…

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...


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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

Welcome

BBC Music Magazine

Have your say…

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...


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