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Pianist Martha Argerich

The best recordings of pianist Martha Argerich

Inon Barnatan plays Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto

Free Download: Inon Barnatan plays Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto

Pianist Leon Fleisher

Pianist Leon Fleisher (1928-2020)

Wigmore Hall post-lockdown concerts with social distancing

Live audiences to return to London’s Wigmore Hall

Pianist Drew Petersen

Lockdown Recommendations from Musicians: Pianist Drew Petersen

Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani on BBC Music Magazine Podcast Music to my Ears

Music to my Ears: Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani

Lockdown listening

Our pick of the concerts and operas to stream online

Empty concert hall

The concerts and operas available to stream online during the coronavirus pandemic

Eric Whitacre Virtual Choir

How to join virtual orchestras, choirs and music masterclasses online

Music lessons and workshops for kids during lockdown

The BBC Proms

Everything you need to know about the 2020 season

BBC Proms 2020 Launch Image

BBC Proms announce 2020 season of live and archive concerts

BBC Proms curtain

Proms 2020: Full schedule

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Six of the best… First Nights of the Proms

Katie Derham at the BBC Proms

BBC Proms 2020 on TV: Full schedule

Music news

The latest happenings from the classical music world

St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London

BBC Radio 3 announces the return of live Choral Evensong performances

Composer Anna Meredith

Anna Meredith among this year’s female-dominated Mercury Prize shortilst

Jules Buckley presents BBC Radio 3's Classical Fix podcast

Radio 3’s Classical Fix podcast returns with Jules Buckley as guest presenter

Nantes Cathedral

Fire destroys Nantes Cathedral organ

Podcast

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

Drive-in operas • BBC Music Magazine Awards • Music and fashion

Culture in Quarantine • Ravi Shankar • Cyrillus Kreek

Cancelled concerts • Women in classical music • Angela Hewitt’s piano

Oscars Nominations • Beethoven • Piccolo Chamber Music

Beethoven 250

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

How did Beethoven cope with going deaf?

Five of the best lesser-known Beethoven works to discover

10 of the best recordings released in celebration of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary

10 composers who were inspired by Beethoven

The top 20 Beethoven works

Beethoven: A guide to his symphonies

BBC Music Magazine's Recording of the Year

Greatest recordings

Our recommendations of essential additions to your listening library

The best recordings of Paul Robeson

Bach for beginners: the recordings to help you discover Bach

The best recordings of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata

Beethoven

The best recordings of Beethoven’s Fidelio

More great recordings

The great composers

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

Conductor Oliver Knussen

Knussen, Oliver

Beethoven on a Traffic Light

Celebrate Beethoven by resisting ‘Beethoven’: how to programme concerts for the great composer’s 250th anniversary

Iain Farrington

Composer Iain Farrington on his First Night of the Proms commission for virtual orchestra

Film composer Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone: the Italian film composer on reassessing his role as ‘king of the cowboy genre’