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BBC Music Magazine

Jun 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… • Write to: The editor, BBC Music Magazine, Eagle House, Colston Avenue, Bristol, BS1 4ST Email: music@classical-music.com Social media: contact us on Facebook and Twitter

LETTER of the MONTH

WIN! 12 MONTHS OF PRIMEPHONIC

For classical music, home is where the heart is • Performers and broadcasters adapt to ensure that life still carries on

Sound Bites

Rising Stars • Three to look out for…

Franz Liszt gives the world’s first piano ‘recital’

Also in June 1840

Lockdown? Time for a little Ludwig learning

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

Andrea Tarrodi

We reveal who’s recording what and where...

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

Buried Treasure • Soprano Natalya Romaniw reveals three rarities from her own collection

The visionary Liszt • The young Liszt’s reputation as a dazzling pianist obscures his extraordinary composing talents that showed him to be ahead of his time, says Tom Service

FAREWELL TO…

Also remembered…

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 • After coronavirus, will live music performance ever return to normal?

King Arthur reigns supreme • The Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh’s incredible recording of Purcell’s opera is the culmination of years of experience

Nicky Spence

John Wilson

Ivo Kahánek

Benjamin Nicholas

Nicolas Altstaedt

Edmund Finnis

Elicia Silverstein

Andrey Gugnin

Glyndebourne

Our salute to a trailblazer • Not only has Jamie Barton set the opera world alight with her magnificent voice, but the mezzo has used her stardom to promote tolerance and equal rights, says

The Met’s At-Home Gala • Jamie Barton joined fellow singers online for a fine evening of opera

François-Xavier Roth • The French conductor finds freshness in familiar scores, he tells James Naughtie, by going back to their manuscripts and performing the music on original instruments

Pictures at an Exhibition

Sick notes • Covod-19's effect on classic music has led to comparisons with Spanish flu, the deadly 1918 pandemic that severely challenged musicians,says Brian Wise

Pestilence and pieces • Music during the plague

A stitch in time • Leading musicians and fashion designers are at last starting to realise that their respective art forms can benefit one another, as Claire Jackson discovers

Coco and Igor • An artistic affair

Choral devotion • Oliver Condy visits the Edington Festival, where a 14th-century priory plays host to a week of choral services, all performed by some of the UK’s top church musicians

Edington Festival • This year’s line-up

Lecce Italy • Founded by the pianist Beatrice Rana, a three-day chamber music festival shows this historic city at its very finest, says Jeremy Pound

Tito Schipa

Judith Weir • Malcolm Hayes explores the versatility, boundless imagination and wit of the UK’s first female Master of the Queen’s Music

Weir’s style

JUDITH WEIR Life&Times

The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Benjamin Brittten • Daniel Jaffé enjoys instrumental inspiration from...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 106 Publisher: Our Media Limited Edition: Jun 01 2020

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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… • Write to: The editor, BBC Music Magazine, Eagle House, Colston Avenue, Bristol, BS1 4ST Email: music@classical-music.com Social media: contact us on Facebook and Twitter

LETTER of the MONTH

WIN! 12 MONTHS OF PRIMEPHONIC

For classical music, home is where the heart is • Performers and broadcasters adapt to ensure that life still carries on

Sound Bites

Rising Stars • Three to look out for…

Franz Liszt gives the world’s first piano ‘recital’

Also in June 1840

Lockdown? Time for a little Ludwig learning

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

Andrea Tarrodi

We reveal who’s recording what and where...

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

Buried Treasure • Soprano Natalya Romaniw reveals three rarities from her own collection

The visionary Liszt • The young Liszt’s reputation as a dazzling pianist obscures his extraordinary composing talents that showed him to be ahead of his time, says Tom Service

FAREWELL TO…

Also remembered…

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 • After coronavirus, will live music performance ever return to normal?

King Arthur reigns supreme • The Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh’s incredible recording of Purcell’s opera is the culmination of years of experience

Nicky Spence

John Wilson

Ivo Kahánek

Benjamin Nicholas

Nicolas Altstaedt

Edmund Finnis

Elicia Silverstein

Andrey Gugnin

Glyndebourne

Our salute to a trailblazer • Not only has Jamie Barton set the opera world alight with her magnificent voice, but the mezzo has used her stardom to promote tolerance and equal rights, says

The Met’s At-Home Gala • Jamie Barton joined fellow singers online for a fine evening of opera

François-Xavier Roth • The French conductor finds freshness in familiar scores, he tells James Naughtie, by going back to their manuscripts and performing the music on original instruments

Pictures at an Exhibition

Sick notes • Covod-19's effect on classic music has led to comparisons with Spanish flu, the deadly 1918 pandemic that severely challenged musicians,says Brian Wise

Pestilence and pieces • Music during the plague

A stitch in time • Leading musicians and fashion designers are at last starting to realise that their respective art forms can benefit one another, as Claire Jackson discovers

Coco and Igor • An artistic affair

Choral devotion • Oliver Condy visits the Edington Festival, where a 14th-century priory plays host to a week of choral services, all performed by some of the UK’s top church musicians

Edington Festival • This year’s line-up

Lecce Italy • Founded by the pianist Beatrice Rana, a three-day chamber music festival shows this historic city at its very finest, says Jeremy Pound

Tito Schipa

Judith Weir • Malcolm Hayes explores the versatility, boundless imagination and wit of the UK’s first female Master of the Queen’s Music

Weir’s style

JUDITH WEIR Life&Times

The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Benjamin Brittten • Daniel Jaffé enjoys instrumental inspiration from...


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