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

The full score • Our pick of the month’s news, views and interviews

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

Sound Bites

Rising Stars • Three to look out for…

Mephistopheles endures a truly diabolical reception

Also in March 1868

Organists inject a little joy into vaccine roll-out

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

Anna Clyne

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

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

Buried Treasure • Violinist Esther Yoo introduces some favourite recordings from her own collection

Breath of life

FAREWELL TO…

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

READER’S CHOICE

Our Choices The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites

Richard Morrison • London’s conductor exodus will bring fresh opportunities for the city

Mozart REVEALED • The years since Mozart’s death have not been kind to historical truth. Romanticised tales of a tortured, poverty-stricken genius have warped our views of the composer and his music. Mozart biographer Jan Swafford uncovers the man behind the myths

The write stuff • One of Mozart’s mischievous letters

Mozart and the Miserere • A spurious tale of genius memory?

Pekka Kuusisto

Keeping it in the family • The multi-faceted Kuusistos

VOTE NOW and help award the best classical recordings of the past 12 months

An irresistible talent • As fine a composer as she was a singer, Pauline Viardot was respected and adored by Europe’s greatest musicians, discovers Jessica Duchen

Exploring Viardot • Five of her best works

Major capital • As both a magnet for the great performers and a creative melting pot, London has been one of the great cities of music for several centuries, explains Michael White

Home thoughts • London Unwrapped

A spot of turbulence • Richard Wigmore delves into the world of Sturm und Drang, in which 18th-century literary and musical emotions turned tempestuous

Creating a storm • Klinger’s eponymous play

Worcester and Hereford England • With fine musical offerings at either end, a cycle ride between these two cathedral cities makes a great way to explore the area, says Rob Ainsley

Edward Elgar, cyclist (and composer)

Anatoly Lyadov • History may regard him as a wasted talent, but the small amount that Lyadov did achieve had a significant impact, as Daniel Jaffé explains

Lyadov’s style

LYADOV Life&Times

Symphony No. 7 Jean Sibelius • Sibelius’s final surviving symphony is a single-movement work of organic, seamless beauty. Stephen Johnson chooses the best recordings

The composer

A detailed, dramatic performance

Three other great recordings

Continue the journey… • We suggest further works to explore after Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7

A lost masterpiece of English opera revived • Julian Perkins and Cambridge Early Opera dust off John Eccles’s 1706 Semele – and it’s a scintillating triumph, says Berta Joncus

Welcome

An interview with Julian Perkins

Orchestral

A most impressive symphonic journey • Bayan Northcott finds power and nuance in the latest ‘Haydn 2032’ recording

BACKGROUND TO… John Adams’s...