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

Dame Jane Glover leads the way in New Year Honours • Groundbreaking conductor one of several classical musicians named in 2021 awards

Honourable mentions • New Year Honours 2021

Alexander Olleson takes BBC Young Chorister crown

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

Sound Bites

Rising Stars • Three to look out for…

Chopin sails home from a miserable Majorcan break

Also in February 1839

Ethel Smyth gets her big Prison break

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

Joseph C Phillips Jr

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

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

Buried Treasure • Soprano Marina Rebeka shares some favourite recordings from her collection

It’s good to be irregular

FAREWELL TO…

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

READER’S CHOICE

READER’S CHOICE

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

Richard Morrison • Igor Stravinsky’s ability to adapt to his circumstances can inspire us all

Greatest Hits • Dame Evelyn Glennie enjoys an international status matched by no other percussionist. As she releases a new disc of concertos written specially for her, she takes Claire Jackson on a guided tour of the instruments that have helped her to build her unique career

Beating a path • Five other leading percussionists

The best of Evelyn Glennie • Five essential albums to explore

Emmanuelle Haïm

Le Concert d’Astrée • 21 years of Baroque success

His Majesty’s pleasure • The Palace of Versailles’s opera house wasn’t completed until 1770, by which time revolution was afoot. Paul Riley charts its chequered history

A royal celebration • 2021’s anniversary events

A memorabilia occasion • Interest in classical music antiques and collectibles has soared in recent years, discovers Jeremy Pound, as he contemplates joining in the fun

A grand adventure • For three years, Sophy Roberts crossed Russia in search of its pianos, each with a connection to its country’s tragic history and cultural soul

Remote keys • Russia’s piano makers

Stadium of stars • New York’s Lewisohn Stadium was one of America’s most important and popular classical music venues – until its demolition in 1973. Brian Wise tells its story

Vanished venues • Lost halls of the US

Back to school • Andrew Stewart discovers how, during the pandemic, Britain’s ensembles have been placing themselves at the heart of education

Klosters & Andermatt Switzerland • Michael White heads up into the Swiss Alps to experience a brace of new, ambitious arrivals to Europe’s summer music festival scene

Devilishly attractive

Giuseppe Verdi • The Italian composer was a great patriot, says Alexandra Wilson , but to what extent were his operas shaped by the politics of his era?

Verdi’s style

VERDI Life&Times

Frauenliebe und -leben Robert Schumann • Natasha Loges explores the finest recordings of a 19th-century song cycle that vividly traces the ups and downs of love’s tortured...