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• Richter and Coote in NY honours joy
  Plus an MBE for long-serving BBC Music columnist
• Music to my ears
  The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites…
• Concert Heaven Concert Hell
  Top artists recall their best and worst performances
• My Hero
  Mezzo Bethany Horak-Hallett remembers the inspiring influence of the late Deborah Roberts, soprano and conductor
• THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
  Pick a theme… and name your seven favourite examples
• Richard Morrison
  Minimalism was much more than a return to basics… it was a revolution
• AWARD 2026
  VOTING OPENS THURSDAY 29 JANUARY!
• The Reichtrack
  As he approaches 90, the US composer Steve Reich tells Tom Service about his pride in playing an important part in bringing tonality and pulse back to music
• My favourite composer
  Colin Currie on Steve Reich
• Music to die for
  Did legendary crime novelist Agatha Christie once harbour ambitions to become an opera singer? Andrew Green follows the clues…
• Scores to settle
  Agatha Christie on film
• Hallé’s comet
  As the Hallé’s vibrant new principal conductor, Kahchun Wong is looking to blaze a trail across Manchester’s music scene, writes Clive Paget
• Made in England?
  Former Hallé conductors
• In Denmark let me dwell
  Rick Jones assumes the role of composer John Dowland, as he sails over to the very castle that inspired Shakespeare’s Hamlet
• All in the mind
  Pianist Nicolas Namoradze is allowing audiences to peek into the depths of his brain as he performs, writes Claire Jackson
• Cells and organoids
  Composing post-death
• Small screen BIG music
  Television drama is getting ever more sophisticated, but why has it become such a draw for Hollywood composers? Michael Beek grabs the remote…
• Starting out
  The composers who cut their teeth on TV
• Bridging the gap
  Despite the UK government’s ambition to provide musical opportunities in state schools, independent charities continue to subsidise the shortfall, writes Clare Stevens
• Heidelberg Germany
  A visit to the home of Germany’s oldest university and a sparkling spring music festival gives Jeremy Pound plenty of food for thought
• Grace Williams
  For long neglected outside her own nation, the Welsh composer is starting to enjoy her time in the sun again, explains Geraint Lewis
• Frederic Rzewski The People United Will Never Be Defeated
  Amanda Holloway is stirred by the best recordings of an hour-long piano masterpiece born out of a 1970s Chilean political protest song
• Continue the journey…
  We suggest five works to explore after Rzewski’s The People United
• Intimate performances full of imagination
  The Icelandic pianist’s carefully curated programme is inventive, illuminating and exquisitely presented, says Nicholas Kenyon
• A spectacular live Mahler recording
  Michael Jameson is wowed by Noseda’s interpretation of the Seventh
• Baroque performances of infectious vitality
  Amandine Beyer explores Italian influences on Bach’s style, writes Nicholas Anderson
• Boulanger’s buried opera has its day in the sun
  Four magnificent leads bring a passionate work back to life, writes Christopher Cook
• Remarkable performances of late Stravinsky works
  Malcolm Hayes is bowled over by Cappella Amsterdam’s exceptional clarity and control
• A remarkable journey through sound and space
  This brilliantly curated album from a talented duo is out of this world, writes Natasha Loges
• Characterful symphonies and a striking discovery
  Misha Donat praises Giovanni Antonini’s lively and detailed accounts of Haydn and Lessel
• Dazzling ballet suites reimagined
  Andrey Gugnin brings orchestral colour to the piano, notes Rebecca Franks
• Screen
  Michael Beek highlights recent releases of film and television music
• Over the Rainbow
  The 1939 Wizard of Oz score has been given a breathtaking new lease of life
• Books
  Our critics cast their eyes over the latest books on all things music…
• From the archives
  Andrew McGregor presents a round-up of this month’s stand-out reissues
• An Enigma preserved
  Elgar’s premiere recordings are vividly revived through expert remastering
• Unboxed
  This month’s round-up explores treasured chamber recordings and stand-out legacies
• Portable cassette and CD players to rewind with
  Chris Haslam provides advice on buying the latest hi-fi equipment
• Three to look out for
  Sam Jackson, the controller of BBC Radio 3, selects three programme highlights for the month of February
• TV&Radio
  Your guide to what’s on BBC Radio 3 this month, plus TV highlights
• THE QUIZ
   You will either love or hate this month’s quiz…
• Joyce DiDonato
  The celebrated mezzo’s career has encompassed everything from bel canto to poetry by Emily Dickinson, as she tells Clive Paget
• Leonard Slatkin
  Conductor