May 2020

In our May issue, Richard Morrison meets the leading violinist Maxim Vengerov as he marks 40 years of life on the concert stage.

Freya Parr

Published: April 7, 2020 at 3:24 pm

In our May issue, Richard Morrison meets the leading violinist Maxim Vengerov as he marks 40 years of life on the concert stage. Another major anniversary we are celebrating this year is the centenary of sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, whose biographer Oliver Craske details his outstanding contribution to the development of 20th-century western music.

Also this month, Kate Molleson meets the groundbreaking Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan and we take a walk around New York’s best musical haunts.

We name the very best recordings of Kodály’s Háry János orchestral suite, and the iconic Argentinian Astor Piazzolla is our Composer of the Month.

Bruckner’s stunning Symphony No. 8 is on your cover CD this month, in a performance by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Donald Runnicles.

Click here for the inlay of this month's cover CD.

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Freya Parr

Digital Editor and Staff Writer, BBC Music Magazine

Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's digital editor and staff writer, editing and writing on all styles of music across both the website and print magazine. She has also written for titles including the Guardian, Circus Journal, Frankie and Suitcase Magazine, and runs The Noiseletter, a fortnightly arts and culture publication. Freya's main areas of interest and research lie in 20th-century and contemporary music. She's a regular sea shanty singer, folk obsessive and occasional flautist, pianist, organist and musical theatre director.
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