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The full score
Our pick of the month’s news, views and interviews
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RisingStars
Three to look out for…
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DÉJÀ VU
History just keeps on repeating itself…
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Valerie Coleman
One of the leading voices in American chamber music-making, Valerie Coleman founded the quintet Imani Winds in 1997 and is acclaimed as both a flautist and composer. Her 25-minute Shot Gun Houses will be performed by the Pacifica Quartet and clarinettist Anthony McGill in Pittsburgh and Syracuse in late April.
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⏪ REWIND
Great artists talk about their past recordings
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MyHero
Conductor Vasily Petrenko tells us why the music and humanity of Dmitri Shostakovich so inspires him
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Music to my ears
What the classical world has been listening to this month
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RPS Music Awards 2023
Rebecca Franks meets the founders of Manchester Collective, winners of the Ensemble Award, to learn their recipe for success
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And the winners are…
This year’s Royal Philharmonic Society Awards recipients
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Richard Morrison
Music by exiled composers is still a vital part of our creative culture
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The HUMAN TOUCH
As we celebrate Rachmaninov’s 150th anniversary this month, Andrew Green talks with leading musicians who explain why there’s so much more to a composer often derided as nostalgic and melancholic
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East meets west
For Steven Fox, music director of The Clarion Choir, Rachmaninov’s anniversary year presents the perfect opportunity to celebrate the composer’s often overlooked choral music, as he tells Charlotte Smith
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Compulsively driven
From the brick-counting Bruckner to Dvořák the avid trainspotter, Steve Wright introduces some of history’s most obsessive composers
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Call of the Nile
With its pharaohs, hieroglyphs, mummies and gods, Egypt has long fascinated composers, keen to capture its unique allure, says Claire Jackson
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An orchestral odyssey
In the footsteps of Prokofiev and Britten, with assistance from a sprite and an A-list team, American composer Mason Bates has created a new audiovisual guide to the orchestra; he explains all to Tom Stewart
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Gstaad Switzerland
The hills are alive with the sound of music in Saanenland, home of the violinist Yehudi Menuhin’s enduring festival, finds Charlotte Smith
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Steve Reich
In developing a unique soundworld as he tackles fraught subjects, the American has proved hugely influential, says Claire Jackson
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Sergei Rachmaninov All-Night Vigil (Vespers)
The composer’s love of the music and rituals of the Orthodox Church were distilled in this masterpiece; Daniel Jaffé finds the best recording
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Continue the journey…
We suggest five works to explore after Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil
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A rewarding finale to this reimagined Bach
Phantasm’s revelatory The Well-Tempered Consort trilogy of recordings comes to an oustanding close, says Ingrid Pearson
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Resplendent English works in truly magnificent sound
John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London have taken VW’s Tallis Fantasia to a new level, says Terry Blain
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Arabella Steinbacher’s treasurable Bach
Julian Haylock basks in the glow of the violinist’s performance of the concertos
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This Saint-Georges opera is anonymous no more
The first complete recording of L’Amant Anonyme does its composer proud, says Christopher Dingle
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Fire and flair in this best ever Solomon
Berta Joncus is bowled over by Namur Festival’s recording of Handel’s oratorio
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Masterful playing ‘on the edge of utopia’
John Allison is impressed by Quatuor Diotima’s deft handling of Ligeti’s works
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Lugansky bewitches in Rachmaninov
The pianist delivers a truly transcendental Études-Tableaux, says David Nice
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World
Michael Church presents our occasional look at the best world music recordings
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Cambodian treasures
This 1960s recording made at the Royal palace in Phnom Penh remains a vital document
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Brief notes
This month’s selection features chapters, encores, myths, melodies and more
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Weinberg quartets and six-disc Szigeti
This month’s round-up also features José Iturbi and Bach masterworks
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Books
Our critics cast their eyes over this month’s selection of books on classical music
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Audio choice
Chris Haslam chooses the best hi-fi equipment for your classical music listening
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From the archives
Erik Levi blows the dust off this month’s set of reissued and archival recordings
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Faust’s Dvořák delights
This reissue of the violinist’s 2004 recording of the Violin Concerto is worth the price alone
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⏪ Unboxed
Andrew McGregor dips into the complete symphonies of Arnold Bax as heard in the hands of David Lloyd-Jones
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Live choice
Paul Riley picks the month’s best concert and opera highlights in the UK
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TV&Radio
Your guide to what’s on BBC Radio 3 this month, plus TV highlights
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Three to look out for
Alan Davey, the controller of BBC Radio 3, makes his final pick this month of three great moments to tune into this April
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THE QUIZ
It’s time to put your classical music knowledge to the test
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Isata Kanneh-Mason
The British pianist speaks to Jessica Duchen about growing up in a family of musicians and about her new album of works inspired by childhood
