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.
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THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS
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Czech masterpieces, but with an American tinge • Julian Haylock introduces string quartets by Dvořák and Janáček, performed by the Pavel Haas Quartet
When Harry met Antonín Dvořák’s voice of America
Have your say…
Young stars shine in blazing Carl Nielsen Competition • Our pick of the month’s news, views and interviews
An occasion of burning passions and flickering emotion
THE MONTH IN NUMBERS
Sound Bites
Rising Stars • Three to look out for…
Florence Price’s Symphony makes history in Chicago
Also in June 1933
Paisley refit gives MacScagni a Scottish twist
DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…
Anne Dudley
Studio Secrets
REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings
Buried Treasure
Memory games
FAREWELL TO…
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 • British music has thrived under our Queen – but has she encouraged this?
AWARDS 2022 WINNERS! Scaling the heights • Igor Levit’s On DSCH is an achievement of monumental proportions – an intellectual and physical marathon, as the Russian-German pianist reveals to Rebecca Franks
A wolf at heart • Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja has found her perfect pack in Camerata Bern on her album of folk-infused 20th- and 21st-century works, as she explains to Charlotte Smith
Illuminated pleasures • Music imitates art in Coll’s work
Newcomer Award Freddie De Tommaso
Opera Award Karen Kamensek
Chamber Award Sitkovetsky Trio
Choral Award John Butt
Vocal Award Kateřina Kněžíková
Orchestral Award John Wilson
Premiere Award Elena Urioste and Tom Poster
BBC Music Magazine Personality of the Year Nicky Spence
Pavel Haas Quartet
Pavel Haas (1899-1944) • Janáček’s ill-fated star pupil
National treasure • As Elizabeth II celebrates her Platinum Jubilee this month, Andrew Green investigates the elusive origin and irresistible rise of Britain’s national anthem
The anthem overseas
Work in progress • Unfinished scores left by the great composers often represent the height of their creative development; so, asks David Threasher, is there any point to the thankless task of trying to complete such works?
Mozart’s Requiem • Completing a masterpiece
The shock of the new • Psappha, the Manchester-based contemporary music group, is now 30 years old and has brought 500 works into existence. Its outgoing artistic director Tim Williams shares the highlights with Tom Stewart
Castles and seabirds • Tim Williams’s final bow
Prussia Cove, Cornwall • In the 50 years since its inception, the International Musicians Seminar has cultivated a strong sense of community, finds Charlotte Smith
Erich Korngold • Embracing youthful stardom, Nazi censorship and Hollywood success, the Austrian’s story was truly remarkable, says Jessica Duchen
KORNGOLD Life&Times
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 3 • Terry Williams finds the best recordings of Brahms’s Third, one of the composer’s greatest triumphs yet one of his most paradoxical pieces
A fleet and deeply felt performance
Three other great recordings
Continue the journey… • We suggest five...