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

Government accounces culture rescue package • £1.57 billion fund gives hope to the UK’s venues, museums and galleries

Sound Bites

Hewitt at last receives Gold Medal from Wigmore Hall

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

Dvorák and his family set foot in the New World

Rising Stars • Three to look out for…

Also in September 1892

Bows are landed in Japanese fiddle fracas

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

Unsuk Chin

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

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

Buried Treasure • Cellist Inbal Segev uncovers three recordings from her own record collection

The visionary Butterworth

FAREWELL TO…

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

READER’S CHOICE

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

Richard Morrison • The the post-viral struggle to bring music back will be hard and grim

The Gentle Giant • Béla Bartók’s greatness may have been overshadowed by his modesty and by his more gregarious and outgoing contemporaries but, argues Jessica Duchen, the Hungarian’s staggering talent rose above them all

Torn in the USA • Five more unhappy exiles

Capturing culture • How Bartók collected folk songs

Unknown Bartók • Six gems to discover

Jennifer Johnston

Food for thought • Dishes inspired by musicians

Food, glorious food! • Away from the concert stage, many great musicians are known for indulging their taste buds, as our gallery of gourmands shows

Close connections • For music ensembles, trying to peform together over the internet can be unwieldy and unsatisfactory. But, says Brian Wise, there are solutions out there

Tempo change • A brief history of speed

Made in China • Throughout the past decade, classical music has been undergoing a surge across China thanks to conductor Long Yu’s dynamism and his passionate faith in the country’s young talent. Oliver Condy reports

Misery under Mao • The Cultural Revolution

15 regrettable compositions • Julian Haylock explores the sorry tales of pieces that, for one reason or another, would go on to haunt their own composers

Birmingham England • England’s second biggest city boasts a classical music scene whose vibrance and inclusivity is matched by few others, says Richard Bratby

Birmingham Town Hall

Florent Schmitt • It only he had learnt to keep his mouth shut, this fine French composer might be more favourably regarded today, says Roger Nichols

Schmitt’s style

SCHMITT Life&Times

Symphonic Dances Sergei Rachmaninov • Terry Williams seeks out the best recordings of the composer’s final orchestral masterpiece, full of vibrant colour and driving rhythms

The composer

Fleet-footed, yet full of substance

Three other great recordings

Continue the journey… • We suggest works to explore after Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances

Welcome

A Cleveland Orchestra celebration to behold • The American ensemble honours its past and looks to the future with this mighty three-disc debut release, says Terry Blain

An interview with Franz Welser-Möst

Orchestral

An exhilarating Ninth to remember...