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LETTER of the MONTH
WIN! 12 MONTHS OF PRIMEPHONIC
BBC New Generation Artists names its new recruits • Radio 3 scheme for brilliant young musicians welcomes 13 new members for 2021
New Generation Artists 2021
The beach is alive with the sand of music
THE MONTH IN NUMBERS
Sound Bites
Rising Stars • Three to look out for…
The sad mental decline of composer Ivor Gurney
Also in September 1922
Orkney composer explores earthy new style
DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…
Grace-Evangeline Mason
Studio Secrets • We reveal who’s recording what and where...
Great artists talk about their past recordings • This month: VÉRONIQUE GENS Soprano
Buried Treasure • Recorder player Dorothee Oberlinger introduces some of her favourite recordings
A modern major perspective
FAREWELL TO…
Music to my ears • What the classical world has been listening to this month
CRITIC’S CHOICE
Our Choices The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites
Richard Morrison • Let’s hope that there are better times ahead for music education in the UK
TIME FOR CHOPIN • For Beatrice Rana, the long months of lockdown in Rome have presented the ideal opportunity to get to know a composer who has strangely eluded her. The exceptional pianist tells Claire Jackson about her new recording
Rana on record • The story so far…
More for the Chopin list • Further recent recordings
The Juilliard Quartet
Harmonious lessons • The Juilliard School, New York
Unravelling Ravel • Roger Nichols delves into the pages of a comprehensive new guide to discover some rare facts and intriguing insights into the often secretive French composer
Speaking out • Ravel in his own words
The coast of success • Far from London, in the seaside town of Bournemouth, conductor Dan Godfrey formed an orchestra which by the early 20th century was a famous beacon for British music, as Andrew Green relates
A musician at arms • Lt D Godfrey (1831-1903)
Beethoven 2 Veg-o-Matic 0 • Forty years ago, Hooked on Classics saw the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra reach No.2 in the pop charts. Rob Ainsley recounts how Mozart and drum machines took classics to the disco… and the bank
Disco-beating classics • The chart-storming single
The Voice of Armenia • Michael Church explores the enduring influence of Komitas, the composer and pioneering folk-collector whose career met a brutal end
Discovering Komitas • Recommended recordings
Music for kicks • What pieces of classical music should football clubs play to inspire their players to victory? We asked eleven soccer-obsessed musicians just that…
That winning feeling • Turnage’s title tunes
Cambridge England • Gareth Thomas explores a famous university city that embraces both tradition and the latest innovation in its richly varied music making
King’s College Chapel
Antonín Dvorák • The Czech’s masterpieces are so fluent and beguiling that it is easy to overlook their other extraordinary qualities, says Stephen Johnson
Dvorák’s style
DVORÁK Life & Times
Symphonia Domestica • Taking inspiration from his everyday married life, Strauss composed a landmark in symphonic music; Terry Blain finds the best...