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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THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS

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LETTER of the MONTH

Psappha to close following Arts Council funding cut • Manchester contemporary music ensemble says shortfall ‘too great a challenge’

How to make a million • The Britten Sinfonia approach

Windsors and losers on a mixed Eurovision night for GB

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

SoundBites

RisingStars • Three to look out for…

Striking musicians reduce the BBC Proms to silence

Also in July 1980…

Japan gets tough on rogue platform pianists

Does composer’s moustache hide a royal secret?

Emily Hall

We reveal who’s recording what and where…

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

MyHero • Conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya tells us why she thinks Anton Rubinstein deserves to be a more celebrated figure

Berio’s gift for listening • Rather than reject the composers of the past, Berio celebrated memories of masterpieces which continue to haunt anyone who hears his work, 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 • The AI revolution is here, but how will it affect the musical world?

WELCOME TO THE PROMS • It’s time for a summer of music! Explore the world’s greatest classical music festival with our complete guide to this year’s wonderful season of concerts

BBC Music Magazine’s Proms Picks • Members of our editorial team name the concerts they won’t want to miss this year

Away from the Albert Hall • This year’s ‘Proms at’ events

It’s ‘Leb wohl!’ from him… • Ratttle bids a Mahlerian farewell

Rite from the heart • Time to sacrifice the music stands

About Last Night… • Marin Alsop leads a Prom to remember

Once a Prom a time… • From Horrible Histories to Doctor Who, Clare Stevens takes a whistlestop tour of children’s Proms through the last 30 years

Tales from the past • Horrible Histories Proms

Eric Whitacre • The American composer shares with Jeremy Pound how writing a work that charts the death of a close friend from cancer took him into previously uncharted emotional territory

Sweet singing in the choir • The joy of writing for voices

A titan without ego • For many, conductor Otto Klemperer will be remembered as the steady and reliable champion of classic repertoire, but in his youth the German was a dashing advocate of the new, writes Andrew Green

Otto Klemperer live • A concert-goer’s view

The fight to be heard • Exiled from their homeland by the Taliban, Afghan musicians are striving to promote a rich musical heritage, writes Simon Broughton

Instrument of evil • The Taliban and music

Hidden treasures • After spending two decades searching the archives for neglected operas, conductor Charles Peebles recalls the risks and challenges of bringing them to the stage

Lost in translation • Does language matter?

Making Tracks • Composer, synth player and Radio 3 presenter, Hannah Peel is forging a multi-faceted career while also giving crucial breaks to fellow musicians, as she tells Tom Stewart

Rawness and drama • Music in Northern Ireland

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