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Britain's King Charles III looks on during a visit of the Africa Centre, in Southwark, Greater London, on January 26, 2023. (Photo by Jack Hill / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JACK HILL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

King Charles’s Coronation Concert: what music will be played at the Windsor concert?

Betty Carter

Greatest female jazz musicians: 12 of the best

Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils one of Opera's best dances

Opera’s best dances

RPS Awards - Bradford Festival Choral Society

RPS Awards: shortlists announced

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra appoints Julian Rachlin

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra appoints new music director

Le Bal Du Moulin-Rouge can can

The can-can: how Offenbach became associated with the risqué 19th century dance

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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2023

BBC Music Magazine Awards 2023

BBC Music Magazine Awards 2023

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Newcomer Award 2023

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Premiere Award 2023

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Vocal Award 2023

Instrumental Award 2023

Opera Award 2023

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Choral Award 2023

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Concerto Award 2023

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Chamber Award 2023

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Orchestral Award 2023

Greatest recordings

Our recommendations of essential additions to your listening library

Verdi's Rigoletto best recordings

Rigoletto: a guide to Verdi’s great opera and its best recordings

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The best recordings of The Christmas Story by Heinrich Schütz

La Nativité du Seigneur

La Nativité du Seigneur: a guide to Messiaen’s Christmas organ cycle and its best recordings

November 1965: Georg Solti and the Vienna Phil complete the first 'Ring'

When was the first studio recording of Wagner’s Ring cycle?

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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Martin Suckling: The Tuning

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JS Bach • Buxtehude • Schütz: Cantatas etc

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Barber • Bruch • Vaughan Williams: Violin Concertos

The great composers

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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Beethoven, Ludwig van

Who is composer JS Bach

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Mozart wrote a concerto for harpsichord in the presence of his father Leopold and Andreas Schachtner 1762 - engraving 1882 (Photo by Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images)

Did the parents of our best-loved composers help or hinder their gifts?