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BBC Music Magazine
Hiss and make-up
From boos to vegetables, opera stars have had to put up with all sorts being aimed in their direction over the centuries
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Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
A vivid and intimate portrait of Mahler
Anna Lucia Richter brings striking depth and expressive insight to the composer's song-settings
2 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
It's all in the genes
Is it a bonus or a burden to be the musical child of musical parents?
7 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Banff Canada
Spectacular views and equally stunning string quartet performances are on Jeremy Pound's agenda as he heads to the Canadian Rockies
3 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Morten Lauridsen
Terry Blain explores the life of a self-imposed recluse whose magical O Magnum Mysterium beguiles millions of listeners each Christmas
6 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
In good faith
Composer Roxanna Panufnik and writer Jessica Duchen tell Amanda Holloway how they have joined forces for a new choral work that looks well beyond Christmas for its festive celebrations
8 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Westward Ho!
Composer Alex Ho is part of a growing community of musicians combining their British and Chinese heritage in fascinating ways
7 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Music & mercy
explores Venice's Ospedale della Pietà, the girls' orphanage where Vivaldi taught and composed
7 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Jingle hell!
As the Christmas season approaches, the BBC Music Magazine team share the festive tunes that make our hearts sink
9 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Bach's recycled choral music brings festive cheer to Leipzig
Shout, exult, arise, praise these days! Glorify what the Almighty today has done!' Early on the morning of 25 December 1734, these words resounded from the choir stalls of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig, to a jubilant accompaniment of festive timpani, pealing trumpets and scampering violins. Seated at a keyboard, the church's director of music Johann Sebastian Bach marshalled the musicians in a performance of the cantata Jauchzet, frohlocket! Auf, preiset die Tage, which preceded the sermon in the morning service.
3 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Rakhi Singh
Violinist and Composer
3 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
In dulci jubilo
When Christopher Gray became director of music at St John's College, Cambridge in 2023, he stepped into a tradition 350 years in the making
9 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Eric Lu takes coveted Chopin prize
American pianist adds to his Leeds victory in 2018
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Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Richard Morrison
There are far too many wonderful carols that have faded into obscurity
3 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Extremely good ideas
Bizarre they may seem, but music's most outlandish inventions and notions can also be just what is needed to unleash truly original thought
2 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Pick a theme... and name your seven favourite examples
3 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Ute Lemper
Singer and actress
3 min |
December 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Spotlight on unusual solo instruments
Claire Jackson is mightily impressed by Bezaly's mastery of the rare alto flute
6 min |
December 2025
BBC Music Magazine
A personal and deeply felt expression of sorrow
Roger Thomas is impressed by the elegant skill and emotional conviction of this accomplished debut
9 min |
December 2025
BBC Music Magazine
A heartfelt and beautiful performance for our time
Tippett's meditation on inhumanity is as relevant today as at its premiere, writes Christopher Dingle
6 min |
December 2025
BBC Music Magazine
A rich score drawn from wanderings in America
Kate Wakeling is captivated by the Partch Ensemble's compelling realisation of a truly original body of works
10 min |
December 2025
BBC Music Magazine
An inspired and artful ode to Beethoven
Joy and camaraderie are palpable in Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos and Emanuel Ax's latest release, notes Rebecca Franks
2 min |
December 2025
BBC Music Magazine
All aboard!
Clare Stevens joins the intrepid presenters of Radio 3 for a day of remarkable on-the-move broadcasting, travelling the length of the United Kingdom by train
6 min |
December 2025
BBC Music Magazine
A compelling revival of Hasse's tragic masterpiece
Anett Fritsch, Roberta Mameli and Jeremy Ovenden deliver vivid performances, notes Nicholas Kenyon
6 min |
December 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Ludlow United Kingdom
Each April, the English Song Weekend fills this Shropshire town with music by composers from both near and far
3 min |
December 2025
BBC Music Magazine
London calling
Clifford Hall recounts Haydn's huge successes in the English capital, a far cry from the composer's hard-up days in a freezing Vienna garret
9 min |
December 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Sergei Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2
Jessica Duchen enjoys more than a brief encounter with the Russian's much-loved work as she gets on track with the best recordings available
3 min |
December 2025
BBC Music Magazine
All together now
In recent years, more and more artists have invited audiences to sing along with their performances. Rebecca Franks investigates this growing trend
7 min |
December 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Performances equal to the great icons of the past
Morley and Brownlee are on sensational form in 19th-century arias and duets, writes George Hall
6 min |
December 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Winner takes all
Competitions may be 'for horses', as Bartók once claimed, but they're a useful promotional tool, writes Claire Jackson, and sometimes they reveal a real star
7 min |