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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LETTER of the MONTH

The full score • Our pick of the month’s news, views and interviews

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

Sound Bites

Rising Stars • Three to look out for…

Prokofiev’s Kijé sleigh-rides through the Russian snow

Also in December 1934

Oh, the lengths we have to go to…

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

John Rutter

Studio Secrets

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

Buried Treasure

The merry organ!

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

READERS’ CHOICE

READER’S CHOICE

Our Choices The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites

Richard Morrison • Musically this year, Christmas will be different, so let’s make the most of it

Maestro of the MOVIES • John Williams may be the most celebrated film composer alive, but there’s more to him than Star Wars . He tells Michael Beek about starting out, his concert works and his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic

Musical offerings • Works for people, places and plinths

Williams’s hidden gems • Five film scores you may not know

Daniel Hyde

An irregular Christmas • The chapel choir’s plans for 2020

A candle sings of simple things • Composer Freya Waley-Cohen introduces her beautiful new carol, specially commissioned for our readers by BBC Music Magazine

A musical ADVENT Calendar • We suggest 24 melodious ways to get you in the mood for Christmas

I have a song to sing, O! • Why are the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan so beloved by amateur dramatics? G&S veteran Daniel Jaffé explains their brilliance, as well as the joy of performing them alongside like-minded friends

I am the very model of a modern major G&S fan • Some of Gilbert and Sullivan’s more unexpected enthusiasts

RPS Music Awards 2020 • This year’s victorious conductor Dalia Stasevska talks to Freya Parr about her hugely successful first year with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Royally honoured • The RPS Award recipients in full

Longyearbyen Svalbard • Oliver Condy heads north and beyond the Arctic Circle for a chamber music festival rich in atmosphere and top-quality performances

Snowy adventures

Adolphe Adam • You may know him largely for one carol and a popular ballet but, says Christopher Cook, there’s much more to the French composer

Adam’s style

ADAM Life&Times

Orgelbüchlein Johann Sebastian Bach • Paul Riley embarks on a liturgical journey as he chooses the finest recordings of Bach’s collection of intricately crafted organ preludes

The composer

Artist and instrument in harmony

Three other great recordings

Continue the journey… • We suggest further works to explore after JS Bach’s Orgelbüchlein

Welcome

An eloquent and deeply moving Tavener tribute • Steven Isserlis made a promise to the late composer to record his final works, and the result is magical, says Christopher Dingle

An interview with Steven Isserlis

Christmas • Terry Blain unwraps a selection of this year’s very best seasonal choral offerings

JS Bach’s joyful glow...