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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Wigglesworth takes on BSO top job • Bournemouth names Englishman as chief conductor

Bournemouth batons • The BSO’s chief conductors

Bonang goes Pythagoras’s theory of numerical harmony

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

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RisingStars • Three to look out for…

Posh frocks and Figaro for Glyndebourne’s first night

Also in May 1934…

Vivian Fung • Juno Award-winning composer Vivian Fung has amassed a large and varied catalogue of orchestral, operatic, chamber and solo works on a variety of themes, often giving voice to under-represented people and places. The premiere of the Canadian’s Songs for the Next Generation takes place at New York City’s Kaufman Music Center on 30 May.

Music to my ears • The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites…

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

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To the power of four

FAREWELL TO…

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN • Conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy tells us the best pieces of musical medicine to soothe the soul

MAY RELEASES

Richard Morrison • Why some composers happen to be the best writers about music too

Northern light • From her first piano lesson, composer Errollyn Wallen has lived and breathed music; and though inspired by a range of styles, her composing is a deeply personal expression, as she tells Kate Wakeling

Compositions of purpose • Five vital works by Errollyn Wallen

Mark Elder

Norwegians wooed • Elder and the Bergen Phil

THE BIG 400! • BBC Music Magazine has reached its 400th issue! To celebrate, we look back over eight milestone issues since the very first in 1992

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Aviananthems • From Vivaldi to Messiaen, composers have often been inspired by birdsong. But accurately mimicking chirrups and tweets in music is far more difficult than it sounds, finds Tom Stewart

A little cuckoo • The most iconic call

Music to die for • From wrathful Verdi to ethereal Fauré, there are many different ways to compose a Requiem, as Jeremy Pound discovers

Parting notes • How to write a Requiem

The mighty Sampson • As soprano Carolyn Sampson turns 50, she tells Ashutosh Khandekar about the development of her voice through a remarkable catalogue of recordings

Music and maths • A beautiful symmetry

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Ibiza Spain • Despite its reputation as the world’s clubbing capital, the sunny island of Ibiza has much to offer classical music fans, finds Claire Jackson

Sergei Taneyev • Though emotionally reserved in person, the Russian revealed his latent passion through his deftly crafted music, explains Daniel Jaffé

TANEYEV Life&Times

Claudio Monteverdi Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda • To mark our 400th issue, Paul Riley turns the clock back 400 years to when Venetians were thrilling to the novel sounds of a knightly battle

An enthralling confrontation

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