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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2025: winners announced!

Drumroll please... Here are the winners of the 20th annual BBC Music Magazine Awards
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Debussy changed music forever. These 12 works prove it

Pianist George Lepauw guides us through the Debussy works he thinks any non-classical music fan would enjoy
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It takes work to engage with classical music... But the rewards are huge

The contrabassoon: the orchestra’s deepest voice

Meet the contrabassoon: classical music’s deepest voice and unsung hero of the orchestral underworld
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Out now: our May 2025 issue, featuring World War II, the Nazis, Myra Hess, Sibelius and more

Here's your guide to the May 2025 issue of BBC Music Magazine, featuring the music of World War II, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, Sian Williams and much more
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Think you don’t like classical music? These 7 works will change your mind

Violinist James Ehnes selects pieces to play for sceptics who don’t believe they’ll like classical music
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Best Beethoven symphony: all nine masterpieces, ranked and rated

Ranking the nine Beethoven symphonies is a somewhat herculean and, of course, a controversial exercise. But here's what we think. What about you?
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‘My fingers were slipping all over the keys’: clarinettist Julian Bliss on his nightmare concert in the rain

The hair was long - and so were the songs. In praise of prog rock, classical music's unruly cousin

What happens when classical music-style levels of ambition, invention and sheer length are grafted onto pop music? The answer, as Meurig Bowen explains, is Prog Rock
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This cat gets emotional listening to music

Snoop, a beautiful black and white cat, gets surprisingly emotional over classical music—he even looks like he’s shedding a tear while listening to Chopin. Clearly, he's feeling all the feels.
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Korngold Symphony in F sharp: a searing account of the misery of life in Nazi Germany 

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
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George Gershwin wrote some of the 20th century's most joyous music. Here are seven of his best works

What are the greatest pieces of music written by the jazz-influenced classical composer, George Gershwin?
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Baroque composers: 11 of the greatest musicians from a dazzling era of music

Just who were the Baroque’s finest exponents? Great names abound, but here are ten of the best Baroque composers who should be on anyone’s list…
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From the streets to the stage… Brad Kella on how winning Channel 4’s ‘The Piano’ changed his life

If you’re a fan of Channel 4’s keyboard contest The Piano, you’ll be very familiar with Brad Kella, the young composer-pianist who won the last series. Here he reflects on a crazy year, owning a Steinway and how music has changed him for the better…
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Review: Ravel Fragments (Bertrand Chamayou)

In his review, Nicholas Kenyon enjoys Bertrand Chamayou’s vision and gripping performance in a clever tribute to Ravel
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Review: Dvořák & Price – Piano Quintets (Takács Quartet)

Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin are on sublime form in contrasting piano quintets by Dvořák and Florence Price, says Jan Smaczny in his review
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Review: Attende domine (The Bevan Family Consort)

In her review, Alexandra Wilson finds much to enjoy in this glorious family album of beautiful music for Lent and Passiontide from the brilliant Bevans
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Review: R Strauss – Arabella (DVD/Berlin, 2023)

In his review, David Nice is enthralled by this memorable and moving Berlin staging of Strauss’s colourful opera, Arabella
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