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How did Elgar help Poland?

How did Elgar help Poland during World War One?

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Song Prize finalists revealed for 2021 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World

Joseph Middleton names best Lieder of all time

The best Lieder of all time

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Music to my Ears Podcast: Author and singer Amit Chaudhuri

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Royal Albert Hall’s chief executive believes government’s pilot schemes are prioritising ‘popular events’ over concert halls

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The best headphone amplifiers for classical music lovers

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The latest news from the classical music world

LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 23: British pianist Imogen Cooper rehearses before a performance of an all Schubert program at a Steinway grand piano on stage in Cine Lumiere during 'It's All About Piano!' festival inside the The Institut Francais on March 23, 2013 in London, England. The festival is a collaboration from French Music Office to celebrate the piano with recitals from classical to jazz, film screenings, children's activities, workshops and cinema screenings exploring the musical instrument. (Photo by Amy T. Zielinski/Redferns via Getty Images)

Pianist Imogen Cooper awarded damehood in 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours

British journalist and former political aide Alastair Campbell speaks during the 'Stop The Brexit Landslide', organised by the Vote for a Final Say campaign and For our Future's Sake, at London's Mermaid Theatre in London on December 6, 2019. - Britain will go to the polls on December 12, 2019 to vote in a pre-Christmas general election. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / AFP) (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Alastair Campbell to discuss how music helped him manage his depression on Radio 3’s Private Passions

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Jaime Martín announced as Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s new chief conductor

LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 02: David James during the #GAME4GRENFELL at Loftus Road on September 2, 2017 in London, England. The charity football match has been set up to benefit those who were affected in the Grenfell Tower disaster. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images)

David James: why the footballer trains to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

Greatest recordings

Our recommendations of essential additions to your listening library

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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The Best Recordings of JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations

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The best recordings of Mozart’s The Magic Flute

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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: Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber

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Music to my Ears Podcast: DJ and broadcaster Edith Bowman

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Music to my Ears: Introducing season 3 of the podcast!

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Music to my Ears: Music journalist Paul Morley

Albums of the week

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

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Pētēris Vasks: Musica Serena; Musica Dolorosa, etc

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Lutosławski • R Schumann • Tchaikovsky: Cello Concertos

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Vivaldi: Bassoon Concertos

Lockdown listening

How to stay entertained with classical music during self-isolation

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The BBC Music Magazine Concert Livestream Calendar

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The great composers

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

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MacMillan, James

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Shiva Feshareki on spatial electronics, composing for turntables and the potential of binaural technology

Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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Unsuk Chin

Unsuk Chin on studying with Ligeti, working with performers and her first encounters with music