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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David Pickard announces BBC Proms departure • Festival director to leave this coming October after ten eventful seasons in post

Tabakova swarms to success at Ivors Classical Awards

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

SoundBites

RisingStars • Three to look out for…

Mahler makes his hotly anticipated New York debut

Also in January 1908…

Salonen’s interpretation makes perfect scents

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

Jessie Montgomery

StudioSecrets • We reveal who’s recording what and where…

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

MyHero • Pianist Martin James Bartlett salutes the songcraft of composer Reynaldo Hahn

The personal touch • Bach’s 48 preludes and fugues are much more than examples of Baroque brilliance – rather, they’re a direct link to the man and his mindset, says Tom Service

FAREWELL TO…

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

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

Richard Morrison • As we say goodbye to a tough year, what do we hope for music in 2024?

La Vie Bohème • Angela Gheorghiu has recorded an album of Puccini’s little-known songs to mark the centenary of the composer’s death. The star soprano speaks to Christopher Cook about a lifetime dedicated to the great Italian’s music

Rome, sweet Rome • Puccini’s public commission

Bucharest and beyond • More legendary Romanian musicians

Miloš Karadaglić • With the release of his new album Baroque, the Montenegrin continues his quest to take the guitar to hitherto unexplored genres, writes Claire Jackson

Changing Chaconne • Transcribing JS Bach

The third man • The genesis of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending can be traced back to a meeting between the composer and violinist-dedicatee Marie Hall. But, asks Andrew Green, who arranged this auspicious collision?

All aboard! • Jeremy Pound invites you on deck to discover how boats, from river barges to ocean liners, have inspired many composers across the ages

Choral oarsmen • When King’s got bumped

Notes on the water • Performances afloat

Maestro: love, life and music… • Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Jamie Bernstein talk to Michael Beek about bringing her family’s story, and her father’s music, to the screen

Listening pleasures • The music of Maestro

Great Scots • For 50 years, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra has been making its mark – under Maxim Emelyanychev, the future looks bright too, writes Michael White

Born to conduct • Maxim Emelyanychev

Spiritual rebirth • Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the mugham tradition is thriving in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku, finds Simon Broughton

Uzeyir Hajibeyov • Father of mugham opera

Lucerne Switzerland • The stunning lakeside city attracted Rachmaninov and Wagner, and is now home to a...