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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BBC Music Magazine

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FREE ONE MONTH TRIAL to the digital edition • BBC Music Magazine is a must-read for anyone with a passion for classical music. Every issue brings the world of classical music to life, from interviews with the greatest artists and features on fascinating subjects, to all the latest news and opinions from around the music world.

Errollyn Wallen gets royal approval • Popular composer is named Master of the King’s Music

Musical catisfaction is just a whisker away, says RSPCA

The fiddle at Lidl helps fruit and veg to grow

The taste of Puccini

Sounds of the 1960s to be revived in London

Rising Star • Today’s up-and-coming talent offer advice for their peers

Mickey and Stokowski join forces for Disney’s Fantasia

Also in November 1940…

Music to my ears • The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites…

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

MyHero

Small is beautiful

FAREWELL TO…

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

Richard Morrison • Even the best composers sometimes produced less than wonderful works

Magnetic north • The Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang is always drawn to a challenge – and, as she tells Ariane Todes, making difficult choices has helped her to grow as a musician

A work of epic proportions • Elgar’s Violin Concerto

A return to Bach • The joy of Baroque playing

Freya Waley-Cohen

The little things • In memory of Oliver Knussen

Giacomo of all trades • Though Puccini wrote little else other than opera, what he did compose away from the stage provides some fascinating insights, reveals Adrian Mourby

Away from the stage • Non-operatic Puccini

Power players • As the US prepares for the presidential election, Jeremy Pound names the candidates vying for the position of history’s most musical world leader

Governmental notes • White House support acts

Bons chants • The nuns of Notre-Dame de Fidélité are preserving the sounds of Gregorian chant for future generations, reports John-Pierre Joyce

All together now • The history of chant

The hit parade • Over the past 30 years, classical percussionists have emerged from orchestral ranks and into the spotlight as leading soloists, writes Anne Templer

A global family • Five main instruments

Good vibrations • Born without sight, pianist Ethan Loch has developed a finely tuned – and synaesthetic – sense of hearing, as he reveals to Claire Jackson

The right touch • Braille sheet music

Ostrava Czech Republic • Steve Wright visits Czechia’s third city and finds a former industrial stronghold celebrating the 2024 Year of Czech Music in some style

An industrial revolution

Thomas Tallis • The Tudor era was rarely a safe place to be but, explains Terry Blain, its greatest composer had the guile and talent to survive its many perils

Tallis’s style

TALLIS Life & Times

Turandot Giacomo Puccini • No-one shall sleep, says Alexandra Wilson, until she has solved...