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

A most singular jingle

Johann Strauss II conducts a ‘monster concert’ for peace

The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites…

Concert Heaven Concert Hell • Top artists recall their best and worst performances

MyHero • Pianist Min Kwon salutes the musical curiosity of Stewart Copeland, composer and former drummer of The Police

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN • Pick a theme… and name your seven favourite examples

MASTER THE ART OF KNITTING

Richard Morrison • With their lust for power, political figures make great operatic subjects

Hidden depths • As one of the world’s leading viola soloists, Timothy Ridout is on a mission to give his instrument its deserved place at the front of the stage, as he tells Rebecca Franks

Time for T • A new opera about Margaret Thatcher reveals the human side of a formidable prime minister, writes Charlotte Smith

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Cometh the Hour • Decades before today’s iconic event, Glastonbury hosted a festival whose first ever outing included a rare opera sensation, writes Andrew Green

All in good taste • Music and food have enjoyed each other’s company since time immemorial. Georgia Mann explores this tasty partnership

Cosmicchords • For his epic touring shows, physicist Brian Cox has returned to his musical roots to capture the wonders of the universe, as he tells Clifford Hall

Britten in Colour • Clare Stevens meets artist Jane Mackay, whose many paintings inspired by Benjamin Britten’s music go on display at Aldeburgh this summer

Bucharest Romania • Rebecca Franks visits a city that, belying its tough economic past, welcomes classical music’s finest to its festival and competition

Carl Maria von Weber • Over a short life and in a quiet, unheralded way, Weber spearheaded a revolution in the world of German opera, as Paul Riley sets out

WEBER Life &Times

Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 5 • Amid the misery of World War II, the British composer’s work offered a sense of calm and even optimism to some, as Terry Blain relates

A uniquely atmospheric account

Continue the journey… • Five works to explore after Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony

Reviews • Recordings and books rated by expert critics

An intellectual journey superbly captured • The Iceland Symphony Orchestra is wonderful in Arvo Pärt symphonies, writes Michael Church

Orchestral

Terrific Telemann from highly intuitive players • This is a beautiful showcase for Ashley Solomon’s Florilegium, says Nicholas Anderson

Concerto

An elegant journey into the operatic underworld • Christophe Rousset’s Les Talens Lyriques are impeccable in Lully, enthuses George Hall

Opera

A mighty finale of colossal choruses • Kate Bolton-Porciatti is wowed by this powerful ode to Orazio...