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The fullscore • Our pick of the month’s news, views and interviews
Orchestral musicians join forces in support of Ukraine
THE MONTH IN NUMBERS
SoundBites
RisingStars • Three to look out for…
Sibelius’s dissolute lifestyle leads to the surgeon’s table
Also in May 1908
Let us entertain you, say Ludwig and Robbie
DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…
Peter Seabourne
StudioSecrets
REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings
Buried Treasure
Why write about music?
Music to my ears • What the classical world has been listening to this month
Our Choices • The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites
Richard Morrison • Russia’s military action is further damaging its declining music scene
The Passionate Pilgrim • Stephen Johnson traces Vaughan Williams’s spiritual journey through ten great masterpieces which remain profoundly pertinent to our time
Five of the best • Performances around the UK
Views from the podium • Sir Mark Elder and Sir Antonio Pappano sit down with Andrew Green to share their experiences and insights from conducting Vaughan Williams’s symphonic works
Labour of a lifetime • For Vaughan Williams, The Pilgrim’s Progress represented a deeply personal journey that inspired several works, writes Geraint Lewis
The Pilgrim on disc • Recordings of the opera
Felix Klieser
Felix Klieser’s top albums • Five recordings to explore
Manchester United • As the candles are lit on its 50th birthday cake, Manchester Camerata is planning to celebrate with friends far beyond its traditional concert audiences, as Jeremy Pound discovers during a packed two-day visit
Meet the maestro • Gábor Takács-Nagy
Master of reinvention • Stephen Sondheim transformed musical theatre through his groundbreaking works – yet he never appreciated his true impact, writes James Inverne
Five great recordings • Sondheim in the studio
FESTIVAL GUIDE 2022
UK Summer Opera
Europe
North America
Rest of the World
Coventry England • As it marks the 60th anniversary of a famous premiere, the UK’s City of Culture aims to have plenty to sing about, reports Claire Jackson
Philip Larkin
Iannis Xenakis • The Greek composer’s multi-faceted approach and unique ingenuity helped shape music of often crushing intensity, says Steph Power
Xenakis’s style
XENAKIS Life & Times
George Butterworth Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad • Clare Stevens picks the best recordings of this masterpiece inspired by AE Housman’s lyrical poems of love and loss in rural England
Three other great recordings
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Reviews • Recordings and Books rated by expert critics
An interview with Klaus Mäkelä
Orchestral • A winning, charming Bruckner Second
From the archives • Andrew McGregor delves into Warner Classics’s colourful celebration of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
Concerto • Nuance and spontaneity in this Bach and Vivaldi
Opera • Colour and character in this tenor’s curtain raiser
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Choral & Song • A sublime Vaughan Williams songbook
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Chamber • Podger and...