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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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.

Radio 3 goes for Baroque with new scheme • Ensemble Molière is named first ever New Generation Baroque Ensemble

Budapest performance gets a shot in the arm…

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

Sound Bites

Rising Stars • Three to look out for…

Vierne’s Carillon chimes well with the Paris public

Also in November 1929

Roulette composer has a cunning little fix on…

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

Hannah Peel • As well as creating her own work, Hannah Peel has also written for film and TV with her unique blend of electronic and classical textures. Her most recent album Fir Wave – which develops sounds from Electrosonic, a 1972 album by Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop – was nominated for a Mercury Prize.

Studio Secrets • We reveal who’s recording what and where…

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

Buried Treasure

Money, money, money…

FAREWELL TO…

Music to my ears • What the classical world has been listening to this month

Our Choices • The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites

Richard Morrison • Is it time to put our favourite operas on hold and explore the unfamiliar?

The Great All-rounder • Composer, author, painter and, of course, one of our most formidably talented pianists, Stephen Hough tells Jessica Duchen about the many challenges to be looked forward to, and faced up to, the other side of his 60th birthday

Hough-a-dozen to try • Six essential recordings

Polymath of the piano • Hough’s other enthusiasms

Laurence Cummings • THE BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE INTERVIEW

Making an early start • The Academy of Ancient Music

Voice of calm • Through its innovative ENO Breathe programme, English National Opera is assisting people suffering breathing problems and anxiety issues caused by Covid-19, as Rebecca Franks discovers

Talk of the devil • Dante Alighieri’s vivid depictions of hell in The Divine Comedy have inspired numerous composers through the centuries; on the 700th anniversary of the writer’s death, Claire Jackson takes us on a tour

Dante’s anniversary • Some celebratory events

From Variety to Verismo • George Hall visits 1900s London, where a variety palace with major ambitions provided the unlikely stage for an Italian opera’s premiere

Ruggero Leoncavallo • The father of verismo

Projected lives • Long before Amadeus graced the silver screen, filmmakers were drawn to the great composers, especially during the golden age of the biopic

A grave concern • Cemeteries may seem an unlikely setting for either concerts or opera, but music among the headstones is increasing in popularity, as Brian Wise reports

Dead serious • Works set in graveyards

Bath England • Once a centre for decadent pleasures to rival Las Vegas, the Georgian city is now a serene destination for music making, says Michael White

Thomas Linley the Elder

Josquin Desprez • Admired across Europe in his lifetime, the...