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Leeds International Piano Competition announces 2021 finalists, with first British pianist in 20 years making the final

Jaap van Zweden to step down as music director of the New York Philharmonic

Opera’s monstrous mothers

Kazuki Yamada conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Kazuki Yamada announced as new chief conductor of City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

which are the best orchestras in the world

The best orchestras in the world

The Last Post: what are its origins and when is it played?

The Last Post: what is its history and why is it played during Remembrance Day?

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The latest news from the classical music world

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Leeds International Piano Competition announces ten semi-finalists from nine countries

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Tenor Stuart Skelton creates Last Night of the Proms cocktail to toast the end of the season

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Ensemble Molière announced as BBC’s first New Generation Baroque Ensemble

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BBC Radio 3 asks amateur composers to write a tune to a Christina Rossetti poem for this year’s Breakfast Christmas Carol Competition

BBC Proms

Everything you need to know about this year's edition of the world's greatest classical music festival

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Photo Gallery: Last Night of the Proms 2021

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The BBC Proms in photos: the best snaps taken at the 2021 Proms so far

Everything you need to know about the Last Night of the Proms

Everything you need to know about the Last Night of the Proms

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What’s on at the BBC Proms tonight?

Greatest recordings

Our recommendations of essential additions to your listening library

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The best recordings of Dvořák’s Symphony no. 9 ‘From the New World’

Ludovico Einaudi best albums

Ludovico Einaudi’s top 5 albums

The best Christmas classical music CDs and recordings released

The best Christmas classical music albums and recordings

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

More great 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: Cosmo Sheldrake

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Music to my Ears Podcast: Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński

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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

Albums of the week

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

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Caroline Shaw: Let the Soil Play its Simple Part

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Penderecki – Complete Music for String Quartet etc

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Love Songs (Angela Hewitt)

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The great composers

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

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The best German composers of all time

Who is William Lloyd Webber, Andrew Lloyd Webber's father?

William Loyd Webber: discover Andrew Loyd Webber’s father and his music

best Black composers

The best black composers you should know about

Julius Eastman

Eastman, Julian