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The best jazz recordings released in 2020 so far

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Royal Birmingham Conservatoire appoints Dr Shirley Thompson as interim principal

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9 of the best ever music-related novels of all time

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The BBC Music Magazine Concert Livestream Calendar

Online learning during lockdown

Classical music lectures and courses available online during lockdown

Music lessons and workshops for kids during lockdown

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Modern Mystics: The Book of Hours. Village Underground. Wednesday 22 November 2017.

Shortlist announced for Royal Philharmonic Society Awards 2020

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BBC Symphony Orchestra launches 90th birthday celebrations

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Donald Runnicles, Jennifer Pike, Sally Beamish and Nicholas Daniel recognised in 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours list

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Poet Laureate Simon Armitage to write lyrics to music set by Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Daniel Kidane in response to COVID-19

Music to my Ears Podcast

Top musicians share their musical passions with the BBC Music Magazine team

Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason on the Music to my Ears podcast from BBC Music Magazine

Music to my Ears: Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason

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Music to my Ears: Newsreader Zeb Soanes

Composer Sally Beamish on the Music to my Ears podcast from BBC Music Magazine

Music to my Ears: Composer Sally Beamish

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Music to my Ears: Composer Jake Heggie

Albums of the week

A selection of the best reviewed albums from the latest issue of BBC Music Magazine

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Handel - Concerti grossi, Op. 3

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Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Nos 4-7

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Beethoven 250

Celebrate the great composer with fascinating articles, playlists, interviews and more…

10 Beethoven references in popular culture

Arabella Goddard

10 great Beethoven performers

Top 10 Beethoven places to visit

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10 composers who were inspired by Beethoven

Beethoven: A guide to his symphonies

Greatest recordings

Our recommendations of essential additions to your listening library

Jennifer Pike Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Martin Roscoe (piano) Chandos CHAN20156 (2020)

Four of the best recordings of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending

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Top 10 post-classical albums to listen to

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The best Christmas classical music CDs and recordings released in 2020

William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet balcony scene

The best (and worst) recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet

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Who wrote the first ever symphony?

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Did Handel’s coat button really save him in a sword fight?

How did Enrique Granados die?

How did Enrique Granados die?

Ansonia Hotel - Second Empire Building in the Upper West Side of New York City. The Ansonia Hotel (built 1904) at 2109 Broadway by Paul E. M. Duboy and

A musical tour of New York: where are the composers’ houses in the Big Apple?

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