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THE BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE INTERVIEW - Kirill Gerstein

Mine wasn't the archetypal musician's tortured childhood, playing nothing but scales and etudes

An orchestral odyssey

In the footsteps of Prokofiev and Britten, with assistance from a sprite and an A-list team, American composer Mason Bates has created a new audiovisual guide to the orchestra; he explains all to Tom Stewart

RPS Music Awards 2023

Rebecca Franks meets the founders of Manchester Collective, winners of the Ensemble Award, to learn their recipe for success

Call of the Nile

With its pharaohs, hieroglyphs, mummies and gods, Egypt has long fascinated composers, keen to capture its unique allure, says Claire Jackson

Sergei Rachmaninov - All-Night Vigil (Vespers)

The composer's love of the music and rituals of the Orthodox Church were distilled in this masterpiece; Daniel Jaffé finds the best recording

CHRIS HAYES

GW catches up with the guitarist whose stellar solos and riffs graced Huey Lewis and the News' era-defining songs, including \"I Want a New Drug\" and \"The Power of Love\"

GENRE-NEUTRAL

MISHA MANSOOR, MARK HOLCOMB, and JAKE BOWEN take you deep inside their latest slice of trademark Periphery riffery, Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre

SUPERNOVAS

HOW U.K. SENSATIONS NOVA TWINS CREATED THEIR HEAVY AND UNIQUE SOUND AND WHY THEIR PEDALBOARDS REMAIN A CLOSELY GUARDED SECRET

Tensile Strength

CORT KX700 EVERTUNE

Proof of Concept

ABASI CONCEPTS ĒMI 7 MASTER SERIES

Super Freak

FENDER '48 DUAL PROFESSIONAL JB EDITION

Gabriel Akhmad Marin

MEET A FUSION WIZARD WHO'S CHANNELING THE SOUNDS OF EASTERN EUROPE AND WESTERN ASIA THROUGH HIS FRETLESS AND MIDI BOARD

Will to Live

OBITUARY'S KEN ANDREWS AND TREVOR PERES TAKE GW THROUGH THE DEATH METAL INSTITUTION'S VITAL AND EVEN BLUESY - 11TH ALBUM, DYING OF EVERYTHING

THE PEDALS THEY CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT

Pedals have provided some of the most thrilling guitar tones in history, from \"Purple Haze\" to \"Comfortably Numb.\" To celebrate decades of stellar sounds, we asked 60-plus guitar greats to choose their ultimate stompboxes

Steve Reich

In developing a unique soundworld as he tackles fraught subjects, the American has proved hugely influential, says Claire Jackson

Fair competitor gives Percy Grainger some Brigg ideas - APRIL 1905

His ringing voice - one of the loveliest I ever heard - was as fresh as a young man's... His effortless high notes, sturdy rhythms and clear unmistakable intervals were a sheer delight to hear.'

Compulsively driven

From the brick-counting Bruckner to Dvořák the avid trainspotter, Steve Wright introduces some of history's most obsessive composers

East meets west

For Steven Fox, music director of The Clarion Choir, Rachmaninov's anniversary year presents the perfect opportunity to celebrate the composer's often overlooked choral music, as he tells Charlotte Smith

Jared James Nichols

FOR HIS INTENSE NEW ALBUM, THE PENTATONIC ROCKER DIGS DEEPER INTO HIS PERSONAL EMOTIONS

AMERICAN DREAM

In the Seventies, four British bands achieved wild success pretty much everywhere - except the U.S. Below, SLADE'S NODDY HOLDER & JIM LEA, STATUS QUO'S FRANCIS ROSSI, the SWEET'S ANDY SCOTT and DR. FEELGOOD'S WILKO JOHNSON (in one of his final interviews) explain what did - and didn't — happen

The Who – "Smoke! Violence! We Showed Them What War Was All About”

The new The Who With Orchestra Live At Wembley is a stirring document of The Who's 2019 headline show at Wembley Stadium, backed by a 50-piece orchestra. It marks several decades as one of the world's premier live rock acts, and certainly one of the most unpredictable and explosive. Here, Roger Daltrey recalls 10 key Who gigs. Then, on page 86, Pete Townshend further explores the notion of The Who as an incendiary live entity while on p93, Joe Geesin presents a live Who discography.

Pauline Black – "We Protested and Were Heard"

Pauline Black and The Selecter may have had their 'moment' at the height of 2 Tone in the late 70s/early 80s alongside The Specials, Madness and The Beat, but that doesn't mean they have been inactive since. In fact, their latest album, Human Algebra, is merely the latest - their 16th in a line of long-players calling out injustice to a rocksteady beat. Not for nothing was Black awarded an OBE for services to entertainment - she's full of surprises, though that doesn't quite explain the telegram from Marlene Dietrich or marriage proposal from Fela Kuti. "I do like the double-take when people hear me open my mouth," she tells Lois Wilson

Glüme Harlow – A Star Is Born

After a painful upbringing working as a child actor from the age of six to provide for her family, Glüme Harlow is making music about reconnecting with that little girl and conquering Hollywood on her own terms

Enter Slowthai, the rock star

What do you do when you find out therapy is not for you? If you're this new dad, you return to your friends and to rock music - the genre Tyron Kaymone Frampton always wanted to make instead for curative release

Lana Del Rey: She Does It For The Girls

After a decade of feeling unexcited after the critical response to her debut album Born to Die, the greatest American songwriter of the 21st century is finally inspired about her career and life again. Rolling Stone UK meets her in LA to discuss the "overculture", romance and her new album, Did You know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

'I feel that I'm kind of underrated...'

In 2008, Harvey Goldsmith got a phone call that changed his life...and revived Jeff Beck's career.

MAISIE PETERS MAKES MUSIC FOR THE QUIETLY UNHINGED

Ed Sheeran's 22-year-old protégé is writing music in the vein of her idol Taylor Swift. Maisie Peters describes her work as existing for dreamers with imaginary boyfriends, the people who live in a fantasy, the ones who don't quite get what they want. It's music for overly invested romantic girls like her

Mrs.Brightside

Christina Ricci calls herself a 'killjoy' - but between her family life and a starring role on TV's hottest show, she's also found a path to happiness

THE FIGHT OF MARVIN GAYE'S LIFE

For a brief moment in 1979, the fates of a tortured soul singer and a fast-rising boxer were entwined. Inside a pivotal, largely unknown chapter of Gaye's story

Playing for keeps

After making her name in EastEnders, Tilly Keeper is once again stealing the show-in Netflix's You