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Free download: Intermezzo from Prokofiev’s Sinfonietta

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Viola music: 12 of the best works

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Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il’yich

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Maria Callas: the great soprano’s life and legacy

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Greatest recordings

Our recommendations of essential additions to your listening library
Verdi's Rigoletto best recordings
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
Recordings

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'
Recordings

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

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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

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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

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The great composers

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

Leoncavallo, Ruggero

Karol Szymanowski, one of Poland's greatest cpomposers

Greatest Polish composers and how they influenced Polish music through the turmoil of the 20th century

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Beethoven, Ludwig van

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