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
The full score • Our pick of the month’s news, views and interviews
THE MONTH IN NUMBERS
Sound Bites
Rising Stars • Three to look out for…
Mephistopheles endures a truly diabolical reception
Also in March 1868
Organists inject a little joy into vaccine roll-out
DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…
Anna Clyne
Studio Secrets • We reveal who’s recording what and where...
REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings
Buried Treasure • Violinist Esther Yoo introduces some favourite recordings from her own collection
Breath of life
FAREWELL TO…
Music to my ears • What the classical world has been listening to this month
READER’S CHOICE
Our Choices The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites
Richard Morrison • London’s conductor exodus will bring fresh opportunities for the city
Mozart REVEALED • The years since Mozart’s death have not been kind to historical truth. Romanticised tales of a tortured, poverty-stricken genius have warped our views of the composer and his music. Mozart biographer Jan Swafford uncovers the man behind the myths
The write stuff • One of Mozart’s mischievous letters
Mozart and the Miserere • A spurious tale of genius memory?
Pekka Kuusisto
Keeping it in the family • The multi-faceted Kuusistos
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An irresistible talent • As fine a composer as she was a singer, Pauline Viardot was respected and adored by Europe’s greatest musicians, discovers Jessica Duchen
Exploring Viardot • Five of her best works
Major capital • As both a magnet for the great performers and a creative melting pot, London has been one of the great cities of music for several centuries, explains Michael White
Home thoughts • London Unwrapped
A spot of turbulence • Richard Wigmore delves into the world of Sturm und Drang, in which 18th-century literary and musical emotions turned tempestuous
Creating a storm • Klinger’s eponymous play
Worcester and Hereford England • With fine musical offerings at either end, a cycle ride between these two cathedral cities makes a great way to explore the area, says Rob Ainsley
Edward Elgar, cyclist (and composer)
Anatoly Lyadov • History may regard him as a wasted talent, but the small amount that Lyadov did achieve had a significant impact, as Daniel Jaffé explains
Lyadov’s style
LYADOV Life&Times
Symphony No. 7 Jean Sibelius • Sibelius’s final surviving symphony is a single-movement work of organic, seamless beauty. Stephen Johnson chooses the best recordings
The composer
A detailed, dramatic performance
Three other great recordings
Continue the journey… • We suggest further works to explore after Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7
A lost masterpiece of English opera revived • Julian Perkins and Cambridge Early Opera dust off John Eccles’s 1706 Semele – and it’s a scintillating triumph, says Berta Joncus
Welcome
An interview with Julian Perkins
Orchestral
A most impressive symphonic journey • Bayan Northcott finds power and nuance in the latest ‘Haydn 2032’ recording
BACKGROUND TO… John Adams’s...