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The full score • Our pick of the month’s news, views and interviews
Wagner sees the bigger picture as the Ring opens in Bayreuth
Also in August 1876…
Music to my ears • The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites…
Concert Heaven Concert Hell • Top artists recall their best and worst performances
MyHero • Beatrice Rana reflects on the transformative effect of learning with her local hero and fellow pianist Benedetto Lupo
The queue to happiness
FAREWELL TO…
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN • Pick a theme… and name your seven favourite examples
Richard Morrison • How shocking was it for a critic to compare The Beatles to Mahler?
Themagictouch • Performer, educator, campaigner and festival director… in all aspects of her busy career, violinist Nicola Benedetti aims to make music accessible for all, writes Ariane Todes
Elegance and optimism • Benedetti on recording Beethoven
Off to a winning start • The first ever Edinburgh Festival
Tour de force • Liszt was paid a small fortune for his exhaustive tours of Britain in 1840 and ’41, but the reality was hard slog and a paltry profit, writes Andrew Green
Ravishing reviews • Liszt in print
A jolly good cello • Guy Johnston has played many fabulous instruments – but none compares to his 300-year-old Stradivari which, he tells Michael White, challenges him every day
Dubious dealers • A history of Strad sales
Hero or hype? • Are some of the ‘great’ composers simply overrated? We invite five of our writers to reveal those whose feted talents leave them seriously underwhelmed
The art of the insult • Composers on composers
Magical Mystery Four • As we mark 65 years of The Beatles, Bob Chilcott, composer, former King’s Singer and Fab Four fanatic, explores the band’s many musical influences
Classical workings • McCartney the composer
From Me To You • Four top classical musicians come together to share with us why they had to get The Beatles into their life
Becoming Oscar • Michael Beek catches up with actor (and pianist) Sean Hayes ahead of his Barbican run as Oscar Levant in the play Good Night, Oscar
Hollywood virtuoso • The real Oscar Levant
Bologna Italy • There’s more to Bologna than culinary delights, writes John Allison – not least a music festival dedicated to its native son, Ottorino Respighi
Coleridge-Taylor’s style
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor • The British composer enjoyed major celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic, only to be cut off just as he reached his peak, reveals Terry Blain
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Life&Times
Hubert Parry • Written for the 1902 Coronation, Parry’s stirring anthem has many fine recordings, says Clare Stevens, but which deserves to wear the crown?
A strikingly grand performance
Continue the journey… • We suggest further works to explore after Hubert Parry’s I Was Glad
Reviews • Recordings and books rated by expert...