BBC Music Magazine

Sir Malcolm Sargent breathed life into the BBC Proms. Yet for all his fame and fortune, says Andrew Green, the conductor’s personality and music-making heavily divided opinion classical-music.com/features/artis…

Undoubtedly Mozart joined the Freemasons to assist his career, but the young composer was also inspired by their egalitarian values classical-music.com/features/compo…

Tom Service’s mind boggles as he explains how science has enabled an American composer to continue writing music… some four years after his death classical-music.com/features/scien…

Italian opera castrati enjoyed cult status in the 17th and 18th centuries but, explains Jeremy Pound, the path to stardom was a notoriously dangerous one classical-music.com/articles/secre…

Journey beyond genre with these transcendent, soul-stirring albums that define the cosmic, meditative heart of spiritual jazz classical-music.com/features/recor…

In 1922, the first public performance of Walton’s Façade provoked disgust and ridicule. Michael White tells the story of the challenging work’s conception classical-music.com/features/works…

For over 400 years there has been a Master of the Queen's/King's Music. But what does the role entail - and who have been the most notable incumbents? classical-music.com/features/artic…

Tomer Lev, pianist and artistic director of The MultiPiano Ensemble, tells the story behind the group’s world premiere recording of a Mendelssohn secret - and selects five other discoveries that changed the music world classical-music.com/features/works…

Chi-chi Nwanoku's trailblazing orchestra has kickstarted the careers of artists including Sheku Kanneh-Mason classical-music.com/features/artis…

👺 Rebecca Franks explores the twilight world of Ravel’s haunting and nightmarish cycle, Gaspard de la nuit, and finds the best recording of this virtuosic work classical-music.com/features/recor…

We bring you the finest recordings of Tchaikovsky's roistering, melodious Violin Concerto classical-music.com/features/recor…

Composers have, over the ages, chosen keys to ‘flavour’ their music in a particular way. So which are the most characterful, and who has used them to their greatest effect? Ivan Hewett delves into his scores to find out classical-music.com/features/music…

Today at the BBC Proms we get a performance of one of classical music's most darkly dramatic, surreal and sinister masterpieces classical-music.com/news/bbc-proms…

She put her career aside to promote that of her husband, William Alwyn – but Doreen Carwithen was a composer with an utterly captivating style all her own classical-music.com/composers/carw…

Stephen Johnson shares his introductory guide to the term 'andante' classical-music.com/features/artic…

Over the course of a long career, the American composer George Walker produced works as individual as they were immaculately crafted, says Elizabeth de Brito classical-music.com/composers/walk…

Just like fads for Tamagotchi and Furbys, robotic conductors are currently flavour of the month – but they’re not a patch on the real thing, says Tom Service classical-music.com/articles/robot…

Who were the finest musical exponents of the Renaissance period? Here is our guide to 10 of the best classical-music.com/composers/best…

Far from being dusty and dreary, harmoniums, or pump organs, were grand instruments that took their place at the heart of 19th-century French music, says Andrew Green classical-music.com/features/instr…

From Palestrina to Einaudi, Italian composers have given us wonderful music in opera and beyond. Here is our pick of the top 10 Italian composers classical-music.com/composers/best…