December 2012

We talk to the great mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato about her triumphant new recording

Published: August 15, 2012 at 9:05 am

Joyce DiDonatao Mary Stuart, Cleopatra, Armide… the American mezzo talks to Neil Fisher about tackling some of opera's most fearsome royal roles

Mozart's The Magic Flute Astrologer Shelley von Strunckel reveals the mystical secrets beneath the opera's surface

Tchaikovsky Jeremy Siepmann on the life and times of Russia's great 19th-century Romantic composer

Musicians behaving badly From a murderous Berlioz to an alcoholic Sibelius and hot-tempered Vivaldi, we grass on music's bad boys

Plus on your free CD Olivier Messiaen's La nativité du Seigneur. Naji Hakim plays the composer's organ at the Eglise de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris

Click on the button below to download the cover CD Inlay

Previous issues of BBC Music Magazine

November 2012

October 2012

September 2012

August 2012

This website is owned and published by Our Media Ltd. www.ourmedia.co.uk
© Our Media 2024