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.

Please Note: Our digital edition does not include the cover mount items or supplements you would normally find with printed copies

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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.

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

At just 16, Yehudi Menuhin joins Elgar to make recording history

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The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites…

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

MyHero

I’m real, so give me a tick • Spotify’s new method of distinguishing AI-generated music from that made by real people is laudable… but sadly flawed, says Tom Service

FAREWELL TO…

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN • Conductor Sakari Oramo selects compelling works by Sibelius and his Finnish successors

Richard Morrison • The BBC Proms has a rich tradition of welcoming genres beyond classical

NEW YORK! NEW YORK! • As Gustavo Dudamel prepares to move from LA to the Big Apple, the charismatic conductor tells Richard Morrison how he’ll be making a brand new start of it with one of the planet’s great orchestras

Operatic ambition • Taking on a new lyrical world

WELCOME TO THE PROMS • It’s time again for a sensational summer of music! Explore the world’s greatest classical music festival with our complete guide to the 2026 programme

NationalTreasures • Andrew Green visits the Royal Albert Hall Archive and discovers an abundance of items from the iconic venue’s venerable history

Supporting Cast • Yunchan Lim is one of the world’s most famous pianists – and his legions of devoted fans are there for every note, reports Simon Broughton

Extreme adoration • Music’s most ardent fans

Opera heroine • Before Wagner set up shop, Princess Wilhelmine of Bayreuth turned the small German town into a major artistic hub, as Michael White relates

Beyond Wagner • Home of Baroque

Heart & Soul • Celebrating his 70th birthday, American composer Kenneth Fuchs talks to Michael Beek about the power of self-belief

On art and music • Fuchs & Frankenthaler

Perth Australia • It may be many miles from the fashionable East Coast, but Western Australia’s capital city is teeming with culture, writes Andrew Green

Richard Rodney Bennett • From youthful atonalism to Oscar-winning filmscores and suavely genial jazz, here was a composer who had it all, says Mervyn Cooke

BENNETT Life&Times

Roy Harris Symphony No. 3 • Terry Williams is captivated by the wide-open American landscape as he enjoys the best recordings of this 1930s orchestral masterpiece

A performance of thrilling power

Continue the journey… • We suggest five works to explore after Harris’s Symphony No. 3

Reviews • Recordings and books rated by expert critics

A performance of dramatic contrasts • Rouvali’s daring recording brings early Shostakovich to life, says Erik Levi

Orchestral

Colourful concertos for an array of instruments •...