BBC Music Magazine - 12 Jun 2025
LET THE PROMS BEGIN!
CASTRATI: A PAINFUL HISTORY…
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Full July listings inside
Welcome
Jeremy Pound
Abigail Frymann Rouch
Peter Somerford
Elim Chan conducts at The Proms
Welcome To The Proms!
Redemption songs
High achievers
Harmonic healing
Riffs & Rhapsodies
Composer of the Month
Path to the podium
The Prom squad
Building a Library
The Full Score
Musical Destinations
El Sistemas go!
Music that Changed Me
July Radio 3 highlights
Crossword and Quiz
Richard Morrison
Radio & TV
Letters
Music and healing
Orchestral heavy metal
July reviews
Recording of the Month
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And now, over to the Albert Hall…
A dreamy occasion for all concerned
Opera countertenor soars to Eurovision win
Poignant Nilsson Prize honours late director
Horror at the Met, as violinist goes missing from her seat
Also in July 1980…
Concert Heaven Concert Hell
The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites...
Myhero
Dead, but still composing
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
The joy of live music is as much about the venue as the performers
WELCOME TO THE PROMS
WELCOME TO THE PROMS
OUR PROMS PICKS
Thursday 4 September
Sunday 7 September
Filming the Proms is a delicate operation, involving hours of planning by a team of highly skilled technicians, as Andrew Green discovers The Prom squad
War games
Proms 2025 on TV
resonus classics
Coming Soon
High achievers
High achievers
The last castrato
What’s in a name?
El Sistemas go!
El Sistemas go!
Fountain of Youth
Riffs & Rhapsodies
Riffs & Rhapsodies
Sting in the tail
Harmonichealing
Harmonichealing
Music as medicine
Social prescribing
Redemptionsongs
Redemptionsongs
Through the decades
Path to the podium
Path to the podium
Saluting Sir Neville
Vancouver Washington, US
Wine and Jazz Festival
Henriëtte Bosmans
Bosmans’s style
BOSMANS Life×
The work
Ferruccio Busoni
The composer
Three other great recordings
Continue the journey…
Kurtág’s life’s work is in the safest of hands
Welcome
Performer’s notes
A remarkable selection of Sibelius symphonic works
Malcolm Hayes is impressed by the surefootedness and attention to detail in this Finnish performance
Beach
Captivating performances for an unusual pairing
Vienna Mandolin Stories
Momentum 2
Dalit Hadass Warshaw
Salieri satire is brought to stylish life enjoys this studio take on the composer’s colourful banned opera
Janáček
Henderickx
No holds barred in this intense St John’s recording Ashutosh Khandekar is impressed by new music director Christopher Gray’s ambitious album debut
Arnold
Felix Mendelssohn
Songs in Surround
Natasha Loges
Brahms
An imaginative tribute to an iconic legend of Lieder
An appetising selection of cello works Pablo Ferrández serves up a perfectly played and curated menu, says
Moonlight Variations
Britten • Shostakovich
Haydn
Honey-coloured Cow
L’entropia
In the Mirror
Elgar
Meisinger
A thrilling modern take on Purcell keyboard gems Kate Bolton-porciatti believes pianist Cristian Sandrin has set the bar with these complete works
Firedove
Organised Delirium
Roma Eterna
Life-affirming Blues... Taj Mahal and Keb Mo join forces for an elegant melting pot that will raise your spirits
Jazz
Tajmo
Our critics cast their eyes over the latest selection of books on all things music
From the archives looks over this month’s reissued and live archive recordings
Pollini’s perfect pianism These virtuosic accounts of Chopin by a teenage Maurizio Pollini remain revelatory
Chopin
Unboxed
We recommend…
Three to look out for
JULY’S RADIO 3 LISTINGS
Last Musician of Auschwitz
THE QUIZ
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