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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BBC Music Magazine

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Hough leads Leeds on a new path • Piano competition set for major changes in 2027

Shostakovich salutes a violin great’s 60th… a year too early

Also in Setember 1967…

Music to my ears

Concert Heaven Concert Hell • Top artists recall their best and worst performances

MyHero

Why the fortepiano rules

FAREWELL TO…

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN • British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber picks the most marvellously memorable works by Edward Elgar

Richard Morrison • How can we stop music from being eroded at our schools and universities?

Heart&Sol • The Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta tells Charlotte Smith why, even after 20 years as one of the world’s leading string players, she’s always ready to learn more

Playing with guts • On the merits of different strings

The unknown Rondine • The final, definitive version of Puccini’s bittersweet opera never quite found its audience… until now, writes Alexandra Wilson

Puccini variations • The obsessive revisionist

Space Oddities • For centuries, visionary types have converted all manner of locations into dazzling concert venues, writes Andrew Green

Let’s go outside… • Extreme performances

Full of beans • As his vocal ensemble marks its 40th anniversary, I Fagiolini founder Robert Hollingworth is in the mood to celebrate, he tells Andrew Stewart

Mind the gap • On just intonation

Session man • The life of a session musician is often stressful and rarely credited… but never dull, reveals Thomas Bowes, veteran of many a film score

Tales from the studio • Musicians share their stories

No practice, please! • The art of sight-reading

Makingwaves • From the first Proms broadcast to Apollo 8’s Earthrise relay, Colleen Wheelahan explores classical radio’s most momentous moments

False prophet • Edison’s bad bet

EDUCATION GUIDE

Oxford united • Natasha Loges reports on how the famous university’s sparkling new Schwarzman Centre has brought together its music resources under one hugely impressive roof

Calgary Canada • Home of the Honens International Piano Competition, Canada’s third city is forging a fine artistic reputation, writes Charlotte Smith

Panufnik’s style

Andrzej Panufnik • A life split between his native Poland and in exile in the UK brought drama and colour to the music of a modern great, writes Erik Levi

PANUFNIK Life&Times

Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 • Rebecca Franks tells the story of this deeply complex and disturbing work as she selects the finest of the many recordings available today

A performance of total commitment

Continue the journey… • Five more works to explore after Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8

Welcome

Caribbean concertos played with panache • The Chevalier de Saint-George and Thierry Pécou make uniquely striking musical companions, writes Christopher Dingle

Performer’s notes Romuald Grimbert-Barré

Sophisticated de Falla from Dudamel • This refined 150th-annivesary tribute is a triumph, writes Erik Levi

Orchestral

A delightful final...