March 2009

Angela Hewitt
The leading Bach pianist has recorded the Well-Tempered Clavier a second time. So why exactly? She tells us…

The Birth of British Music
As BBC Two gets set to celebrate the anniversaries of Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn, presenter Charles Hazlewood gives us a sneak preview of the series

Where are the women?
For no obvious reason, female conductors are still a rarity in our concert halls. Rachel Pugh tries to find out why this is

Endangered music
Michael Church reports on the musical cultures that have become threatened by political change and globalisation

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On the Cover Disc

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 21 & 23

For this month’s cover CD, we have delved into the BBC archives for sublime performances of Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos 21 and 23 performed by Clifford Curzon, a British pianist who had few peers in this repertoire. Never previously released on CD, these recordings, which date from 1976 and 1963, reveal Curzon’s acute attention to every detail and nuance, his beautifully polished sound and his sheer sensitivity in works whose exquisite central movements are among the best loved in the repertoire.

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