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The Life of Hildegard von Bingen

Coronation will feature The Lion King's 'I Just Can't Wait To Be King'

Coronation will feature The Lion King’s ‘I Just Can’t Wait To Be King’

Will church bells ring for the coronation?

Will church bells ring for the Coronation?

Royal Marines Band Service

Which military bands will play at the coronation?

Alehouse Sessions

Violinist Bjarte Eike on the Alehouse Sessions

BBC Music Magazine Free Download of the Week

Free download: Randall Scotting sings Étienne Moulinié (1599-1676)

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Greatest recordings

Our recommendations of essential additions to your listening library

howells requiem

Howells’s Requiem: a guide to Howells’s sacred requiem and its best recordings

Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition best recordings

Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version): a guide to Musorgsky’s original piano masterpiece and its best recordings

Monteverdi’s Vespers

Monteverdi’s Vespers 1610: a guide to the sacred masterpiece and its best recordings

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The Walton Viola Concerto: a guide to his viola masterpiece and its best 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

MADRID, SPAIN - JUNE 27: Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber attends a photocall at the mandarin Oriental Ritz Ho on June 27, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Beatriz Velasco/Getty Images)

Who is Andrew Lloyd Webber?

Shostakovich

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Prokofiev composing Lieutenant Kijé

Prokofiev, Sergey

Who is William Walton

Walton, William