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LETTER of the MONTH
Domingo Hindoyan named as RLPO chief conductor • Highly rated Venezuelan to succeed Vasily Petrenko from September 2021
Saying it with flowers, lockdown-style
THE MONTH IN NUMBERS
Sound Bites
Rising Stars • Three to look out for…
Cage bemuses New York with the sound of silence
Also in August 1952
In search of love, dolphins head for song school
DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…
Iain Farrington
Studio Secrets • We reveal who’s recording what and where...
REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings
Buried Treasure • Pianist Anna Fedorova uncovers three rarities from her own record collection
Riddle of the Ring
FAREWELL TO…
Music to my ears • What the classical world has been listening to this month
READERS’ CHOICE
Our Choices • The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites
Richard Morrison • The BBC Proms has no excuse not to reform its Last Night traditions
THE PEOPLE who shaped the THE PROMS • To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Proms, Michael White introduces the extraordinary figures, past and present, who have moulded and changed this august and unique music festival
Proms in the Park • How the Last Night moved outdoors
Meet the Promenaders • The Albert Hall’s standing army
Me, myself and I • Solo performers at the Proms
“If I want to play in tune, I have to feel in tune! Because my body is all I’ve got” • THE BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE INTERVIEW
Big waves • Theremin repertoire to discover
Game changers • With its players from BME backgrounds, Chineke! is shining a light on the lack of diversity within the rest of the classical music world, says Richard Morrison
Five of the best • BME composers to explore
Scales of the unexpected • From contrabassoons to harmonicas, we take a look at some of the more unusual concertos to have found their way into the concert hall over the centuries
Honks & hyacinths • Five concerto oddities
Allure of the East • Culminating in rich portrayals of Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov and Ravel, the ‘exotic’ Orient inspired countless composers, says Stephen Johnson
Intoxicating tales • Five operas inspired by 1,001 Nights
Hollywood dreams • Film composer Alexandre Desplat talks to Michael Beek about realising boyhood ambitions – and his foray into the concert hall
Sydney Australia • Among the many cultural thrills the Australian city has to offer are some of classical music’s most impressive venues, discovers Clive Paget
Dame Joan Sutherland
Carl Czerny • Though cursed for his tricky piano exercises, the Austrian provided a vital link between generations of composers, says Chris de Souza
Czerny’s style
CZERNY Life&Times
A German Requiem Johannes Brahms • Natasha Loges explores Brahms’s unique reflection on the journey towards the grave and the afterlife as she compares the best recordings
The composer
A masterclass in perfect pacing
Three other great recordings
Continue the journey… • We suggest works to explore after Brahms’s A German Requiem
Overlooked sonatas brought into the light • Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s first volume of works by four contemporaries of Beethoven is very special, says...