The World of Music
Interesting facts and quirky stories from around the classical music world
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22/05/2013
Seven leading musicians – including Sir Mark Elder and soprano Deborah Voigt – tell us...
21/05/2013
Read the text for Brahms's A German Requiem, the work on this month's BBC Music Magazine...
03/05/2013
Watch our audio slideshow of paintings by Vermeer accompanied by music of his time
The World of Music
Photographer James Cheadle and art editor Dav Ludford head to Manchester…
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.
Hear the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013 Newcomer of the Year
Neil McKim's guide to some of the biggest jazz chart hits
We name the best recordings of the great composer's music
The text for Britten's masterpiece
Katy Wright explores half a dozen of music's most atmospheric nocturnal compositions
We take a 20th-anniversary look at the best discs to have graced BBC Music Magazine
The past 20 years on the opera stage
Download the text for your cover CD
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