BBC Music Magazine - March 2025

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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2025 - We present the shortlists, and now it’s time to vote!
Cover:Maurice Ravel at 150 - Multi-faceted, meticulous and utterly original, the great French composer is celebrated by Paul Riley.
The 11 Best Film Scores of All Time… - We ask over 60 leading composers to have their say.
There and back again… - Lord of the Rings composer Howard Shore shares his memories of Middle-earth and more with Michael Beek.

Vienna's cacophonous concert ends to the sound of slapping

‘Fighting at a Schoenberg concert.

3 mins

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

Composer-conductor Odaline de la Martinez prizes tempo, swing and bounce in her top rhythmic works

3 mins

BBC muSIC MAGAZINE AWARDS 2025

VOTE NOW and help choose the best classical recordings of the past 12 months

3 mins

Frenchpolish

From music of the past to jazz, from Spanish dance to kitchen crockery, Ravel took a remarkable range of influences as his inspiration and turned them into perfectly crafted masterpieces, writes Paul Riley

10+ mins

THE BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE INTERVIEW

Music by women and composers of colour is not a separate set of pieces from the ones we know

6 mins

The 11 best film scores of all time

Together, music and film can create magic, but which have done it best? Michael Beek asks top film and TV composers to vote

7 mins

There and back again

With retrospectives on album and in concert this month, Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore reflects on his years in Middle-earth and tells Michael Beek why he has a lot to thank the LPO for...

7 mins

Look back in anguish

Despite Korngold's denials, there is much to suggest that his Symphony in F sharp is a grim depiction of the dark days of Nazism, argues Jessica Duchen

7 mins

Come again?

If something is worth hearing once it's worth hearing again, explains Rebecca Franks, who charts a history of the use of echoes in music

6 mins

Molto humoroso

Cartoonist and broadcaster Gerard Hoffnung lampooned the world of classical music with splendid affection and wit, writes Andrew Green

7 mins

Istanbul Turkey

Charlotte Smith is entranced by a city that straddles east and west, and places an abundance of art, music and culture at the heart of its identity

3 mins

Pierre Boulez

Tom Stewart celebrates a composer, conductor and musical iconoclast for whom breaking from tradition was not an option but a must

6 mins

Louis Vierne Organ Symphony No. 1

As Notre-Dame re-opens, Terry Blain names the finest recordings of a spectacular showcase by one of the cathedral’s famous former organists

4 mins

Crystal clear with plenty of punch

The great is, they say, the enemy of the good, and that is certainly the case with David Sanger’s interpretation of Vierne’s Organ Symphony No. 1, which stands head and shoulders above a strong field of alternative versions.

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BBC Music Magazine Description:

BBC Music Magazine is a monthly classical music magazine published by Immediate Media Company. It was first published in 1992 and is the best-selling classical music magazine in the world.

The magazine covers all aspects of classical music, from news and reviews to features and interviews. It also features exclusive content from the BBC Proms and other BBC classical music events.

BBC Music Magazine is a popular read for many classical music lovers, and is known for its in-depth coverage and expert analysis. It has helped many classical music lovers discover new music and learn more about the genre.

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* News and reviews of classical music
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* Interviews with classical music figures
* Exclusive content from the BBC Proms and other BBC classical music events

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