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.

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

A great hope of British music falls heroically at the Somme

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

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The enigma of Einaudi

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

Richard Morrison • The classical landscape has undergone striking changes over the past 50 years

The Italian Job • Freddie De Tommaso may be taking opera stages across the world by storm but, the tenor tells Jeremy Pound, he’ll never stray from the music of his ancestral homeland

From prostitutes to poets • The operas of Umberto Giordano

Bach from the dead • Without a series of calamitous events, JS Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos might never have come to be, explains Clifford Hall

Bach ghosted • How the Brandenburgs managed to survive

Bright sparks • Rebecca Franks explores how some composers moved beyond music to apply their creativity to all sorts of scientific and practical inventions

A good ear? • Composing inventors

Peak performer • A spirited adventurer, cellist Gautier Capuçon recently performed while suspended by wires high above the Alps, as Anthony Cheng reports

Moving mountains • The intrepid Baquet

Hush little baby… • Why are lullabies so effective at encouraging babies to sleep? Musicologist and new mother Madeline Castrey investigates

Say no to silence • White noise machines

Pipe dreaming • Freya Parr joins Scottish smallpiper Brìghde Chaimbeul as she embarks on a collaboration with the Scottish Ensemble on the Isle of Skye

Scotland meets USA • Edinburgh Festival 2026

Tampere Finland • Pore-cleansing saunas and cute Moomins aside, the Finnish Lakeland city has a thriving musical identity, writes Claire Jackson

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari • George Hall explores a greatly underrated composer who united Italian and German influences in a range of colourful operas

WOLF-FERRARI Life&Times

Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez • Rob Ainsley basks in the warmth of the Spanish sun as he explores the finest recordings of this iconic piece for guitar and orchestra

Sublime technique and perfect poise

Continue the journey… • Five further works to explore after Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez

Reviews • Recordings and books rated by expert critics

Thrilling masterpieces revitalised • The Bamberg Symphony embarks on a gripping voyage, notes David Nice

Orchestral

Hillborg’s shimmering textures, perfectly shaped • Nicolas Altstaedt and Tamara Stefanovich are at home in the...