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BBC Music Magazine Free Download of the Week

Free Download: Guitarist Frank Halász plays Tárrega’s Lágrima

Car audio: how audio technology and enhanced sound systems are improving music on the move

Car audio: how audio technology and enhanced sound systems are improving music on the move

Irish classical music: how it originated and developed and Ireland's best composers

Irish classical music: how it originated and developed and Ireland’s best composers

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Vangelis to release album inspired by NASA’s Jupiter exploration

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What’s on at the BBC Proms tonight?

Meet the people who make the Proms so special, from backstage stars to musicians and Prommers

Meet the people who make the BBC Proms so special, from backstage stars to musicians and Prommers

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News

The latest news from the classical music world

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Prommers able to book two Promming tickets each for the first time this year

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Clarke Peters and other musical theatre stars to join BBC Concert Orchestra in Golden Age of Broadway Prom

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London Symphony Orchestra, Hannah Peel, Nubya Garcia and Laura Mvula make 2021 Mercury Prize shortlist

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BBC Proms to open at full capacity this year

Greatest recordings

Our recommendations of essential additions to your listening library

A guide to Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals, the animals represented and its best recordings

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The Best Recordings of JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations

Matthew Passion Gardiner

A guide to JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion and its best recordings

Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

A guide to Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and its best recordings

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Music to my Ears Podcast

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

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Music to my Ears Podcast: Pianist Peter Jablonski

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Music to my Ears Podcast: Boxer and bassoonist Hannah Rankin

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Music to my Ears Podcast: Clarinettist Julian Bliss

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Music to my Ears Podcast: Radio 3 broadcaster Georgia Mann

Albums of the week

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

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Roxanna Panufnik: Heartfelt

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R Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Burleske

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Paganini: 24 Caprices (Ibragimova)

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The great composers

Explore the lives and works of classical music's finest composers

Who is Ruth Gipps?

Gipps, Ruth

Louise Farrenc

Farrenc, Louise

Edmund_Finnis

Finnis, Edmund

Who is Hans Zimmer

Zimmer, Hans