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  • BBC Music Magazine3 min read
    Richard Morrison
    When people want to mock my inky profession, they usually wheel out that old insult: ‘Nobody ever erected a statue to a critic.’ To which I always reply: ‘Oh, but they did!’ Go to Zwickau in Germany and you will find a fine statue of Robert Schumann,
    BBC Music Magazine1 min read
    Bournemouth Batons
    Dan Godfrey (1893-1934) Richard Austin (1934-39) Montague Birch (1939-47) Rudolf Schwarz (1947-51) Charles Groves (1951-61) Constantin Silvestri (1962-69) Paavo Berglund (1972-79) Uri Segal (1980-82) Rudolf Barshai (1982-88) Andrew Litton (1988-94) Y
    BBC Music Magazine1 min read
    Norwegians Wooed
    He’s not only in Manchester: Mark Elder is principal guest conductor of Norway’s Bergen Philharmonic too. He began his Hallé season with Mahler’s Ninth, and repeated it in Bergen earlier this year, proving the strength of the Norwegian connection. ‘H
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    Vivian Fung
    I was born and raised in Edmonton, Canada. I’m first-generation Canadian – my parents emigrated from Hong Kong after they got married. I grew up as any good immigrant family would, with eager parents who wanted their child to do well. I started piano
    BBC Music Magazine1 min read
    Compositions Of Purpose
    Mighty River was composed to mark the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. Wallen’s evocative orchestral score blends contemporary classical idioms with several spirituals. As she describes, ‘It is an innate human instinct to be free,
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    May TV&Radio
    First performed by Bach in Leipzig on Good Friday 1724, the St John Passion has been close to Gareth Malone’s heart ever since he played the iconic Evangelist as a young music student – a somewhat propitious role for the nation’s much-loved choirmast
    BBC Music Magazine1 min read
    Parting Notes
    ‘When you experience personal loss,’ reflects composer Michael John Trotta (above), ‘within a couple of weeks everybody else’s lives have gone back to being the same. However, there’s something that you yourself can never quite put back together. I t
    BBC Music Magazine1 min read
    Beware Your Agent
    In the early 1950s, Neville Marriner (see April issue), pianist Antony Hopkins and violinist Alan Loveday travelled the country to play trios at local music societies. I recall the chairman of the Newport (Shropshire) Music Society announcing shortly
    BBC Music Magazine1 min read
    Bonang Goes Pythagoras’s Theory Of Numerical Harmony
    Did Pythagoras get it wrong? In the 6th century BC, the great polymath showed that certain numerical ratios between sounds are what makes music sound pleasant to us – and dissonance occurs when there’s a deviation from such ratios. But scientists in
    BBC Music Magazine2 min read
    Three Other Great Recordings
    There’s something immensely organic about the way René Jacobs unfolds the narrative’s ineluctable trajectory in his version recorded in 2000. And for a conductor so often associated with a certain operatic flamboyance, some of the ‘agitato’ moments p
    BBC Music Magazine2 min read
    To The Power Of Four
    Elizabeth Maconchy’s 13 string quartets belong at the centre of our musical lives. They should be at the heart of every string quartet’s repertoire, and at the core of concert hall promotion. They are musical experiences that we listeners need in our
    BBC Music Magazine2 min read
    Farewell To…
    Born 1942 Pianist and conductor ‘That young man can play the piano better than any of us,’ enthused Arthur Rubinstein on hearing an 18-year-old Maurizio Pollini play his way to victory in the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1960.
    BBC Music Magazine1 min read
    Music And Maths
    ‘People talk about the relationship between music and maths, and I wonder if that’s to do with patterns.’ As the daughter of maths teachers, Carolyn Sampson has the facility to absorb patterns in music which, she tells me, makes learning complex work
    BBC Music Magazine5 min read
    Have Your Say…
    Write to: The editor, BBC Music Magazine, Eagle House, Bristol, BS1 4ST Email: music@classical-music.com Social media: contact us on Facebook and Twitter I was fascinated by The Magnificent Seven (April), in which Ben Goldscheider chose seven works h
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    Europe
    Dresden, Germany, 9 May – 9 June musikfestspiele.com Dresden is pondering the theme of ‘Horizons’: cellist and artistic director Jan Vogler believes that the perception of classical music is changing, ushering in transformation. Over 60 events coloni
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    The 2024 Awards winners!
    On your FREE CD Schoenberg Violin Concerto Brahms Serenade No. 2 Performed by violinist Ernst Kovacic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra PLUS! Claire Jackson interviews composer Anna Clyne about her many influences,
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    Continue The Journey…
    Though Monteverdi may have proudly claimed the credit for reinventing the ‘agitated style’ in music, the subject – and lively depiction – of battles had been popular for some time. For instance, from the 1580s we have La battaglia by Monteverdi’s Ven
    BBC Music Magazine3 min read
    The Magnificent Seven
    Pick a theme… and name your seven favourite examples Hungarian Gábor Takács-Nagy came to fame as the leader of the Takács Quartet, with whom he played for 17 years. In 2002, he turned to conducting and is currently music director of the Manchester Ca
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    Music To My Ears
    In March, Bang & Olufsen hosted a celebration in Mayfair of the 2024 BBC Music Magazine Awards nominees. Performing at the event was last year’s Premiere Award winner Fenella Humphreys, who charmed the audience with solo violin works by Bach, Debussy
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    Evocative Debussy And Spellbinding Stravinsky
    Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version); Debussy: Jeux; Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune Orchestre de Paris/Klaus Mäkelä Decca 4870146 64 mins Few ballet scores manage to encapsulate such a varied and arresting range of emotions as Petrushka. But the s
    BBC Music Magazine1 min read
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    Available from 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
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    Flute From The Hip
    Perceive its Beauty, Acknowledge its Grace Shabaka Hutchings (flutes), Jason Moran (piano), Nasheet Waits (drums), Carlos Niño (percussion) plus guests Esperanza Spalding (bass), Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (strings) et al Impulse! 602465050356 46:45 mins
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    MyHero
    Alexandre Tharaud admires the unswerving integrity and unique sound of fellow pianist Piotr Anderszewski Singers are my most inspiring guides. They open the way for me; they are my true teachers. I also listen to many pianists, but I’m always on the
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    BBC Music Magazine
    Plus our favourite birdsong (see p42) Editor Charlotte Smith Australian Magpie Deputy editor Jeremy Pound Collared Dove Acting reviews editor Steve Wright Willow Warbler Acting content producer Freya Parr Kookaburra Cover CD editor Alice Pearson Wren
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    Aviananthems
    Consider the song of the nightingale. Clangorous, bizarre and almost psychedelic in its complexity, this small brown bird’s voice is truly remarkable but really nothing like the sweet, mellifluous crooning you might imagine if you’d never heard one f
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    A Little Cuckoo
    Perhaps the best-known birdsong of all – or at least the most imitable – is that of the cuckoo (pictured above, calling). The soft but far-carrying two-note song of the male is an iconic sound of spring, albeit one that is fading fast from the Britis
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    SoundBites
    Esa-Pekka Salonen says he will not be continuing as music director of the San Francisco Symphony when his contract expires next year. ‘I do not share the same goals for the future of the institution as the Board of Governors does,’ was the blunt expl
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    Northern Light
    ‘It can be very irritating, being a composer,’ laughs Errollyn Wallen. ‘You’re always trying to solve these ridiculous problems that you’ve set yourself. And sometimes you just want a day off, but the music won’t let you.’ Be it going for a walk or d
    BBC Music Magazine4 min read
    Rest Of The World
    United Arab Emirates, year-long abudhabifestival.ae Not for Abu Dhabi the defining constrictions of time and place. It’s a festival with year-round global aspirations that, two decades since its foundation, boasts a performance of Mahler’s Symphony N
    BBC Music Magazine2 min read
    TANEYEV Life&Times
    LIFE: Sergei Taneyev is born on 25 November in the Russian city of Vladimir. He begins piano lessons at five, and at nine enters the Moscow Conservatory. TIMES: The Treaty of Paris is signed between Russia and France, Britain and the Ottoman Empire,

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