The World of Music

Interesting facts and quirky stories from around the classical music world
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Petroc Trelawny
18/06/2013
We talk to the presenter about the standard of this year's competition, the atmosphere...
Joshua Bell
17/06/2013
Photographer James Cheadle and art editor Dav Ludford head to the Royal Albert Hall
Rite of Spring
29/05/2013
In February 2006, BBC Two showed Riot at the Rite, a specially commissioned film that relived the...

The World of Music

Richard Wagner
Seven leading musicians – including Sir Mark Elder and soprano Deborah Voigt – tell us the operas by Wagner that inspire them most
BBC Music Magazine June cover CD
Read the text for Brahms's A German Requiem, the work on this month's BBC Music Magazine cover CD
Vermeer
Watch our audio slideshow of paintings by Vermeer accompanied by music of his time
Mark Elder
Photographer James Cheadle and art editor Dav Ludford head to Manchester…
Orchestrapaedia
Roxanna Panufnik's new chamber work, Orchestrapaedia, mirrors Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra – but with added cartoons by her brother, Jem.
Mei Yi Foo
Hear the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013 Newcomer of the Year 
What a Wonderful World
Neil McKim's guide to some of the biggest jazz chart hits
War Requiem
We name the best recordings of the great composer's music
War Requiem
The text for Britten's masterpiece
Katy Wright explores half a dozen of music's most atmospheric nocturnal compositions

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Guy Barker
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Sir Colin Davis
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Martin Engstroem
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Laurence Cummings
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Laurence Cummings picks out the highlights of this...
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The American conductor on tackling the music of Moeran
Charles Hazelwood
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Nicky Spence
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On Shakespeare and music
Alexander Goehr
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On the pros and cons of writing in the shadow of Bach
James Whitbourn
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On telling the story of Anne Frank in music