Rebecca Franks

Recent articles by Rebecca Franks

Meditation on a mountain

The best classical music for meditation

BBC Music Magazine Quiz: the Antarctic and the Arctic

How Louisa May Alcott was immortalised by Charles Ives in his music

BBC Music Magazine podcast

Nicola Benedetti • Mariss Jansons • JoAnn Falletta

BBC Music Magazine podcast

Handel Messiah • Contemporary Christmas carols • Bah! humbug!

Conductor Anna-Maria Helsing

BBC Concert Orchestra announces new principal guest conductor

Score of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony

How many symphonies did Beethoven write?

Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

What is the West-Eastern Divan orchestra?

BBC Music Magazine podcast

Edward Gardner • Royal Philharmonic Society • Elgar Cello Concerto

Character strings

Christophe Rousset takes Frescobaldi in his stride

Out of Italy

Forgotten cello masters are given a voice at last

Sandrine Piau

French discoveries reveal unexpected treasures

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Putting the drama back into Mozart’s D minor

Fabulous Fabiano delivers a sizzling selection of arias