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.

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LETTER of the MONTH

FREE ONE MONTH TRIAL to the digital edition • BBC Music Magazine is a must-read for anyone with a passion for classical music. Every issue brings the world of classical music to life, from interviews with the greatest artists and features on fascinating subjects, to all the latest news and opinions from around the music world.

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

Library of larks takes flight as Little lends her support

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

SoundBites

RisingStars • Three to look out for…

World’s largest organ greets shoppers in Philadelphia

Also in June 1911…

Hair today, genealogical discrepancy tomorrow

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

MEET THE COMPOSER • The British composer strives to challenge the nature of what it means to make music, and her Multi-Story Orchestra project continues to capture the imagination. Their latest work, Verified, receives its world premiere at Bold Tendencies, Peckham, on 9 June as part of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust’s 20th-anniversary celebrations.

StudioSecrets

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

MyHero • Ben Gernon tells us why fellow conductor Colin Davis was the very best mentor he could possibly have asked for

Dare you open the door?

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 • Can classical concerts in unlikely settings attract new audiences?

Baroque star! • Rachel Podger’s album showcases several superb works for solo violin that preceded Bach’s masterful series of Sonatas and Partitas; she tells all to Charlotte Smith

Opera Award John Andrews

Chamber Award Martin Fröst

Choral Award Maxim Emelyanychev

Vocal Award Helen Charlston

Newcomer Award Abel Selaocoe

Concerto Award Hilary Hahn

Premiere Award Fenella Humphreys

Orchestral Award Agnieszka Duczmal

Crusading conductor • Over the past year Dalia Stasevska has devoted herself to helping her Ukrainian countrymen, from both on and off the podium, as she tells Rebecca Franks

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Master of the strings • Mutter on tennis’s Roger Federer

Vive la révolution! • Saint-Saëns’s five piano concertos bucked the trend of the French musical establishment – and, says Roger Nichols, remain a legacy to be reckoned with

A pianist’s perpective

Five of the best • Recommended recordings

A slave no more • Gayle Wood tells the remarkable story of the African-born violinist and composer Joseph Emidy, whose musical talent led to kidnap, life at sea and, finally, acclaim

London calling? • What might have been

Smoothoperator • Young conductor Oliver Zeffman applies his entrepreneurial zeal to every one of his ambitious and beautifully staged events, finds Michael White

A matter of Pride • Gay composers in history

Napa Valley California • Laurence Vittes enjoys a wide array of music al fresco while enjoying fine food and, of course, the local wine at the region’s flagship...