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WIN! 12 MONTHS OF PRIMEPHONIC
British government announces EU touring agreement • Deals with 19 countries confirmed, but eight others are still to be resolved
Fifty kettledrums proves a large number to beat
THE MONTH IN NUMBERS
Sound Bites
Rising Stars • Three to look out for…
Sydney’s new opera house is given a royal send-off
Also in October 1973
Meet Bach, your well-tempered shopping guide
DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…
Cecilia McDowall
Studio Secrets • We reveal who’s recording what and where...
REWIND Great artists talk about their past recordings • This month: ALICE SARA OTT Pianist
Buried Treasure • Cellist Anne Gastinel introduces favourite recordings from her own collection
Variously inspired
FAREWELL TO…
Music to my ears • What the classical world has been listening to this month
READER’S CHOICE
READER’S CHOICE
Our Choices • The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites
Richard Morrison • Let’s hear it for those pandemic heroes who kept the music playing
The show must go on • Andrew Lloyd Webber has been relentless in his drive to get music and theatre back on track after the pandemic. As he releases a new recording of orchestral suites to highlight the issue, the composer shares his thoughts with Stephen Moss
Keeping it in the family • The Lloyd Webbers at home
Suite music • Introducing the three showcased shows
Héloïse Werner
Quartet with a difference • The Hermes Experiment
Tribute to a stage genius • As the opera world mourns Graham Vick, one of its most talented, innovative and inspiring directors, conductor Alpesh Chauhan remembers his friend and mentor in the company of Richard Bratby
Graham Vick greats • Four notable productions
Four hands good • Julian Haylock explores the harmonious history of piano four hands, in which two players share up-close-and-personal moments on one keyboard
Four hands… and feet • Works for two organists
A sinister exchange • In 1936, conductor Sir Thomas Beecham and his London Philharmonic Orchestra visited Germany and became pawns in a Nazi propaganda coup, as Erik Levi relates
A toll of destruction • How two great halls fell
Opening chords • Though Mozart-like prodigies are few and far between, teaching children music before they have started school has been shown to have many benefits. The key to it, finds Paul Robson, is all about enjoyment
Where to start? • Four leading methods
Chicago United States • Terry Blain finds a great deal has already happened this year at the famed ‘Windy City’, home to a wealth of first-class musical events
Georg Solti
Nikolai Myaskovsky • In his lifetime he was the Soviet Union’s most honoured symphonist, yet his heartfelt music expressed a personal tragedy, says David Nice
Myaskovsky’s style
MYASKOVSKY Life&Times
Cello Suite No. 1 • Inspired by Mstislav Rostropovich, Britten created a pinnacle in the cello repertoire says Jo Talbot, who finds which players scale its heights
The composer
Poetic perception from Wispelwey
Three other great recordings
Continue the journey… • We suggest five works to explore after Britten’s Cello Suite No....