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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Paavo Järvi takes on London Philharmonic top job • Estonian is named as chief conductor with centenary season on the horizon

Purcell celebrates his queen’s birthday in opulently regal style

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

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Let’s get back to the bar

FAREWELL TO…

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

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Richard Morrison • Singing Haydn’s optimistic choral music is a life-enhancing experience

Haydnseek • Over the course of nearly 40 years and more than 100 works, Haydn took the symphony into totally new territory. But how to go about exploring this huge and groundbreaking body of music? Let Nicholas Kenyon be your genial guide…

O Brother, where art thou? • Michael Haydn’s symphonies

Hens, bears and miracles • Five nicknamed symphonies

RPS Music Awards 2025 • Rebecca Franks meets trombonist Peter Moore who, against the odds, is championing his instrument on the solo stage

And the winners are… • This year’s Royal Philharmonic Society Awards recipients

Sounds of seduction • Just how erotic can music be? Jessica Duchen gets hot under the collar as she explores the most passionate pieces and sensual songs

Seriously unsexy • Music that should be erotic… but isn’t

National treasure • Composer Bryce Dessner found fame in The National but, writes Tim Greiving, classical music was there from the beginning

Freedom in France • A beautiful life

Fantastic Four • Quatuor Diotima celebrate 30 years of innovative programming this year but, asks Ariane Todes, just what is the secret of their enduring success?

HOMES&ANTIQUES • Celebrate timeless design, with Homes & Antiques magazine

Identity crisis? • The role of the quartet

Push and pull • Despite its reputation as a niche instrument, the accordion is taking its place in the concert hall, as Ksenija Sidorova tells Claire Jackson

Box of tricks • Top accordion works

Game on… • Poppy Bingham charts the amazing rise of video game music – from Pac-Man’s basic chiptunes to the sweeping scores of today

Nicolas Horvath • On Assassin’s Creed

Isle of Wight UK • Clare Stevens is entranced by fabulous Baroque performances and beautiful seaside scenery at the first ever Fairest Isle Festival

Avril Coleridge-Taylor’s style

Avril Coleridge-Taylor • Despite her outstanding talent and steely resolve, the British composer often found acceptance hard to come by, says Leah Broad

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Life&Times

Johannes Brahms Eight Lieder and Songs, Op. 58 • From the composer’s hundreds of vocal works, Andrew Green picks out a set that reveals his genius as a songwriter at its magical best

A uniquely vivid Brahmsian portrait

Continue the journey… • Works to explore after Brahms’s Eight Lieder and Songs, Op. 58

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A unique and fiercely inventive soundworld • Patricia Kopatchinskaja meets Márton Illés’s...