Amanda Holloway
Freelance writer, BBC Music Magazine
Amanda Holloway is a freelance classical music journalist and former Features Editor of BBC Music Magazine. She writes features and interviews for many specialist titles, including BBC Music Magazine, Opera Now, International Piano and Classical Music Magazine, as well as writing opera and concert reviews for The Stage.
Recent articles by Amanda Holloway
Masaaki Suzuki: one man's lifelong mission to bring Bach to Japan
As Bach Collegium Japan celebrates its 35th anniversary, its legendary music director speaks to Amanda Holloway about a lifetime devoted to the great Baroque composer
Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin: the masterpiece inspired by delusional, lovesick trauma
Amanda Holloway is all ears as she listens to the best recordings of this set of songs detailing the doleful cycle of love, hope, rejection and despair
Karl Jenkins: from prog rock to the world's most performed classical composer
Welsh composer Karl Jenkins speaks to Amanda Holloway about creating an emotional connection with his many millions of fans across the globe
Linton Stephens: the BBC Radio 3 presenter and Chineke! bassoonist on the music that shaped him
From Brahms to Bob Marley, the presenter and performer selects six pieces that have soundtracked his musical life
Georgia Mann: the broadcaster and writer on the music that shaped her
Broadcaster and writer Georgia Mann (Essential Classics, BBC Proms) selects the music that has had the biggest impact on her
Poulenc's Figure humaine: a guide to this spectacular choral hymn and its best recordings
Amanda Holloway finds the best recordings of Poulenc's Figure humaine, a spectacular choral hymn to freedom, written while France was under Nazi occupation
Best percussion music: what are percussion’s most exciting orchestral moments?
What are percussion’s most exciting and precarious orchestral moments? Amanda Holloway talks to ten players about the bars that get their hearts pumping
A guide to Nielsen's Symphony No. 2, ‘The Four Temperaments' and its best recordings
Amanda Holloway introduces Nielsen's Symphony No. 2, ‘The Four Temperaments' - a work famously inspired by a picture in a pub - and names its best recordings
Actor Simon Callow on the music that shaped him
The actor, best known for his roles in A Room with a View and Four Weddings and a Funeral, shares five classical works that touched him deeply
Author Jacqueline Wilson on the music that shaped her
The famous children's and YA fiction author Jacqueline Wilson reveals the music that has had the most profound impact on her life
Conductor Dalia Stasevska: Music That Changed Me
The BBC Symphony Orchestra's principal guest conductor gives her musical recommendations of the recordings she can't live without
