BBC Music Magazine - 7 Aug 2025
Itzhak Perlman
Arvo Pärt at 90
100 reviews by the world’s finest critics
DVOŘÁK’S CELLO CONCERTO
LIGHTS, CAMERA… WAGNER!
Tom Service
The British music students lured to bleak Soviet Russia
A fight at the opera
John Rutter: why the choral icon is loved the world over
Mark Kermode
Welcome
Jean-pierre Joyce
Paul Hillier
Jo Talbot
Itzhak Perlman
Cover: Itzhak Perlman
Man of the World
Picture Perfect
Heroes & Villas
Cold comfort
Code to joy
Musical Destinations
Composer of the Month
Learning the notes
The Full Score
Building a Library
Music that Changed Me
Crossword and Quiz
Richard Morrison
Radio & TV
Letters
September reviews
Classical music in films
John Rutter
Recording of the Month
Have your say…
The majesty of Mendelssohn
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Park life put on BBC Singers’ agenda
Musical hotel has Grand plans for 150th bash
András Schi
picks up Japanese gong
Pope Leo carries on a tuneful tradition
Donizetti’s opera comes to a bloody end as sopranos scrap
Donizetti’s opera comes to a bloody end as sopranos scrap
Also in September 1834…
Concert Heaven Concert Hell
Music to my ears
My Hero
A funny thing happened…
FAREWELL TO…
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Richard Morrison
In good hands
In good hands
Life begins at 80
Screen junkie
Code to joy Many
Code to joy Many
Composing in code
Man of the World
Man of the World
Italian attraction
The other Rutter
Cold comfort
Cold comfort
Creature comforts
Heroes&villas
Heroes&villas
Villa Senar
Pictureperfect
Pictureperfect
An enigmatic choice
Learning the notes
Learning the notes
Vienna Austria
Schloss Cobenzl
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt’s style
ARVO PÄRT Life×
Antonín Dvořák
The composer
Three other great recordings
Continue the journey…
Violin virtuosity to entertain and astound
Welcome
Reviews
Rachel Podger
Winning new friends for Ries
Michael Jameson welcomes the Tapiola Sinfonietta’s symphonic showcase
Bacewicz
Bartók • Enescu • Kodály • Martinů
Dvořák • Schumann
Pictures from Finland
The Panufnik Legacies IV
Mozart in full bloom
Albinoni • JS Bach • Telemann
Bloch
Coleridge-taylor
Philip Glass
Corelli
Handel • Mendelssohn
Tamberg • Tõnu Kõrvits • Erkki-sven Tüür
György Kurtág • Ligeti
In Wilhelmine’s footsteps
A climate-change opera for our times
George Hall is impressed by Bernard Foccroulle’s blend of myth and modernity
Bantock & Kennedy-fraser
Darren Clark
Brian Current
Graun
Donizetti
Handel
Gabriel Jackson
Precise but passionate polyphonic masterpieces
Steve Reich
Veni Creator Spiritus
Everlasting Light
Be Still, My Soul – Hymns from Magdalen
Beloved Works by Billy Childs, Ola Gjeilo and Eric Whitacre
An irresistible album of arias for two altos
Brahms • Wolf
Mozart
Alma – Ibero-american Songs
Season in Time
Lumina
Shostakovich in all his moods
Ginastera
V Novák
Shostakovich
Schubert
An American Affair
The Four Elements
A Cello Galaxy of British Women Composers
Romanza
Brahms Works arr. Jazz Quartet (The Brahms Project)
Winter Steps and Summer Skies
Kiss On Wood
A powerful pagan myth meets a poetic fairytale
JS Bach
JS Bach
Chopin
Shostakovich
Poulenc
Marimba
Journey Home
Salt
Hallelujah Junction Works by Stravinsky, Gershwin, Bernstein and John Adams
Organ Reflections Works by Franck, Mozart and Reger
Mozart Paradox Improvisations on Mozart by Thomas
September round-up
A fabulous foursome
Quartet (England) 1985
Domestic squabbling
G Williams
Unboxed
Why British hi-fi is up amongst the world’s best
We recommend…
Three to look out for
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