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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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.

Winners announced at Ivors 2024 • Outstanding composers honoured at star-studded bash

Interest rates in Ives raised as bank notes local composer

Hollywood music mania spreads to station

Parisian pipe dreams

Flat Puccini in Milan

RisingStar • Today’s up-and-coming talent offer advice for their peers

Stalin’s operatic storm-out strikes fear in Shostakovich

Also in January 1936…

Music to my ears

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

MyHero

Having a whale of a time

FAREWELL TO…

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN • Pick a theme… and name your seven favourite examples

Richard Morrison • If you could travel to any year in musical history, which would it be?

Blue horizon • Star of the 2024 Last Night of the Proms, soprano Angel Blue has taken the opera world by storm on both sides of the Atlantic – it’s a long way from local beauty pageants in California, as she tells Ashutosh Khandekar

Aiming to impress • Top pageant performances

Race to the top • Black operatic divas

Anthony McGill

Education is power • Anthony McGill’s Juilliard work

Analysing Amadeus • Using today’s psychoanalytic methods, what can we learn, asks Rebecca Franks, about the mind of Mozart, perhaps the greatest musical genius of all?

Between the notes • Mozart’s musical persona

Musical formula • Anecdotally, the scientific mind is often drawn to music says Naomi Yandell, who approaches six eminent scholars for their thoughts on its attraction

Chemistry and chords • Alexander Borodin

When music bites • Stephen Johnson explores satire in music, revealing how composers have used their craft to comment on the social and political worlds in which they live

Chorus of disapproval • Four satirical operas

Beyond Hyacinth • Though known chiefly for her brilliant portrayal of a social climber on TV’s Keeping Up Appearances, Patricia Routledge was once also a successful mezzo, as the actress recalls with Michael White

Pitch, Pace and Power • How song can help speech

Star-Spangled Bangers • As Donald Trump is sworn in as America’s 47th president this month, Terry Blain looks back at the music that has shaped presidential inaugurations

Anthem for America • The Star-Spangled Banner

Lessons for life • It’s official: playing an instrument is good for your mind and body. But, asks Ariane Todes, what other life skills can musicians teach us?

Tools for the future • Playing in youth ensembles

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Eisenstadt Austria • Rebecca Franks heads to the Austrian town...