May 2015

BBC Music Magazine Awards
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Early Sounds
Simon Heighes looks back in time to investigate the first ever recording of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

Alan Davey
James Naughtie talks to the new controller of BBC Radio 3

Claudio Monteverdi
Robert Hollingworth appraises the work of the great Italian composer

Grand Plans
Rebecca Franks explores some of the great opera houses that never made it off the drawing board

Plus, on your free cover CD:

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10

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