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Dame Joan Sutherland's best operatic roles

Dame Joan Sutherland’s best operatic roles

Best Halloween music

Six of the best pieces of music for Halloween

Four hand piano: When did the fashion for piano four hands start?

Four hand piano: how the fashion for piano four hands started and why it was popular for its romantic possibilities

BBC Music Magazine Free Download of the Week

Free Download: Peter Donohoe plays Busoni’s Sonatina super Carmen

Why do so many composers write variations?

This is why so many composers write variations, says Tom Service

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News

The latest news from the classical music world

Conductor Bernard Haitink dies aged 92

Conductor Bernard Haitink dies aged 92

The winner the 18th Chopin competition Canada's Bruce Xiaoyu Liu (C) stands second prize winner Kyohei Sorita (L) of Japan, third prize winner Martin Garcia Garcia (2L) of Spain, J J Jun Li Bui (2R) of Canada and Russian-Armenian pianist Eva Gevorgyan (R) after the results were announced in Warsaw on October 21, 2021. (Photo by JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo by JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Winner of the 18th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition announced

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St John’s College, Cambridge makes history as it opens its choir to girls and women for the first time

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Jacqueline Wilson to bring her characters to life in concert with BBC Symphony Orchestra

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

Greatest recordings

Our recommendations of essential additions to your listening library

Bernard Haitink

Nine unmissable recordings by Bernard Haitink

The best recordings of Sibelius's Symphony No. 7

The best recordings of Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7

Britten's War Requiem text

The full lyrics and text of Britten’s War Requiem

Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 guide

A guide to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1

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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

Beethoven’s conversation books: how they give us unique insights into the composer's life

Beethoven’s conversation books: how they give us unique insights into the composer’s life

Who was Komitas

Komitas

What happened to Ivor Gurney?

Ivor Gurney: how the composer’s life was plagued by mental illness

Which composers died during WW1

14 composers who died in the First World War