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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THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS

BBC Music Magazine

Czech masterpieces, but with an American tinge • Julian Haylock introduces string quartets by Dvořák and Janáček, performed by the Pavel Haas Quartet

When Harry met Antonín Dvořák’s voice of America

Have your say…

Young stars shine in blazing Carl Nielsen Competition • Our pick of the month’s news, views and interviews

An occasion of burning passions and flickering emotion

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

Sound Bites

Rising Stars • Three to look out for…

Florence Price’s Symphony makes history in Chicago

Also in June 1933

Paisley refit gives MacScagni a Scottish twist

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

Anne Dudley

Studio Secrets

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

Buried Treasure

Memory games

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 • British music has thrived under our Queen – but has she encouraged this?

AWARDS 2022 WINNERS! Scaling the heights • Igor Levit’s On DSCH is an achievement of monumental proportions – an intellectual and physical marathon, as the Russian-German pianist reveals to Rebecca Franks

A wolf at heart • Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja has found her perfect pack in Camerata Bern on her album of folk-infused 20th- and 21st-century works, as she explains to Charlotte Smith

Illuminated pleasures • Music imitates art in Coll’s work

Newcomer Award Freddie De Tommaso

Opera Award Karen Kamensek

Chamber Award Sitkovetsky Trio

Choral Award John Butt

Vocal Award Kateřina Kněžíková

Orchestral Award John Wilson

Premiere Award Elena Urioste and Tom Poster

BBC Music Magazine Personality of the Year Nicky Spence

Pavel Haas Quartet

Pavel Haas (1899-1944) • Janáček’s ill-fated star pupil

National treasure • As Elizabeth II celebrates her Platinum Jubilee this month, Andrew Green investigates the elusive origin and irresistible rise of Britain’s national anthem

The anthem overseas

Work in progress • Unfinished scores left by the great composers often represent the height of their creative development; so, asks David Threasher, is there any point to the thankless task of trying to complete such works?

Mozart’s Requiem • Completing a masterpiece

The shock of the new • Psappha, the Manchester-based contemporary music group, is now 30 years old and has brought 500 works into existence. Its outgoing artistic director Tim Williams shares the highlights with Tom Stewart

Castles and seabirds • Tim Williams’s final bow

Prussia Cove, Cornwall • In the 50 years since its inception, the International Musicians Seminar has cultivated a strong sense of community, finds Charlotte Smith

Erich Korngold • Embracing youthful stardom, Nazi censorship and Hollywood success, the Austrian’s story was truly remarkable, says Jessica Duchen

KORNGOLD Life&Times

Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 3 • Terry Williams finds the best recordings of Brahms’s Third, one of the composer’s greatest triumphs yet one of his most paradoxical pieces

A fleet and deeply felt performance

Three other great recordings

Continue the journey… • We suggest five...