BBC Music Magazine - 20 Mrz 2025
YUJA WANG
AURORA ORCHESTRA
THE GENIUS OF DUKE ELLINGTON
Stewart Copeland
Start with a bang
100 reviews by the world’s finest critics
Jeff Goldblum on the music that has shaped his life
Violinist James Ehnes
Cherubini’s Médée
Soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha’s concert hell
Yaaaawn... why it’s OK to be bored during a concert
Death at the keyboard
Full April listings inside
Welcome
Anthony Cheng
Mervyn Cooke
Ariane Todes
Yuja Wang
Cover: Yuja Wang
A new dawn
The art of sound
The art of memory
Call of the wild
Building a Library
The Full Score
Royal Philharmonic Society Awards
Out of focus
Musical Destinations
In the beginning…
Composer of the Month
Music that Changed Me
April Radio 3 highlights
Crossword and Quiz
Richard Morrison
Radio & TV
Letters
Recording of the Month
Abel Selaocoe
Stewart Copeland
Aurora Orchestra
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Musicians in AI stand
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Holst house gets Grade II uplift
Carnegie Hall witnesses a top pianist’s fatal final concerto
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Lights, camera… composers!
FAREWELL TO…
Violinist James Ehnes selects pieces to play for sceptics who don’t believe they’ll like classical music
Engaging with classical music takes work – and it’s not elitist to say so
The Accidental Pianist
The Accidental Pianist
Pianistic perfection
RPS Music Awards 2025
And the winners are…
Over 40 years, the producer Andrew Keener has enhanced hundreds of recordings with his skills. Anthony Cheng uncovers the secrets of his craft The art of sound
Over 40 years, the producer Andrew Keener has enhanced hundreds of recordings with his skills. Anthony Cheng uncovers the secrets of his craft The art of sound
A young upstart?
In the beginning…
In the beginning…
Starters for ten
Quiz answers
Aurora Orchestra has been pushing boundaries for 20 years, not least through its daring memorised performances, writes Rebecca Franks A new dawn
Aurora Orchestra has been pushing boundaries for 20 years, not least through its daring memorised performances, writes Rebecca Franks A new dawn
New kids on the block
The art of memory
Keeping the score
Call of the wild
Call of the wild
When animals sing
Out of focus
Out of focus
It’s good to be bored...
Barcelona Spain
Gaudí’s Casa Batlló
Duke Ellington
Ellington’s style
DUKE ELLINGTON Life×
Luigi Cherubini
The composer
A darkly powerful presentation
Three other great recordings
Continue the journey…
A reminder of music’s life-affirming power
Welcome
Performer’s notes
This complete Pulcinella is a real glut of musical riches
Ravel
Schubert
Censored Anthems
Sibelius
Lalo • Widor
A ‘lost’ cello concerto worth discovering
Barber • Sibelius
Stewart Goodyear • Mendelssohn • Schumann
Lalo • Saint-saëns • Sarasate
Stephen Hough
Tchaikovsky
Walton
Beyond
Ravishing Baroque treasures unearthed
Berta Joncus applauds this collection of rare arias from soprano Roberta Mameli
Ponchielli
Stravinsky
Tippett
Weldon
A dreamy song selection to mark the end of an era
The King’s Singers are impeccable in a final set with bass Jonathan Howard, says Ashutosh Khandekar
Britten • Rainier
Gavin Higgins
Fauré
Elgar
Lassus
Schubert/beatles
Clive Osgood
Joanna Marsh
Habanera
Górecki
An outstanding survey of Górecki’s string quartets The Silesian Quartet deliver an incisive performance of the composer’s chamber works, says John Allison
Christopher Cerrone
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Yellow Butterfly
R Strauss
Changes
Ludovico Einaudi
Piano Nocturnes brought into the light enjoys this glowing reappraisal of John Field by Alice Sara Ott
Guess Who?
Fantasie
BRIEF NOTES
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April round-up
A plucky Persian set
From the archives
A rare front row seat...
Unboxed
Our critics cast their eyes over the latest selection of books on all things music
Portable home cinema projectors for a top view
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