BBC Music Magazine - May 2023

In this issue

Isata Kanneh-Mason
The pianist tells Jessica Duchen how her new recording was inspired by the music of her unique childhood.

French master
Roger Nichols shares his memories of happy Parisian times in the company of composer Henri Dutilleux.

Notes from childhood

As pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason releases a new album devoted to the music of youth, she speaks to Jessica Duchen about being a role model, her dedication to self-improvement and growing up in a famously musical family

10 mins

'I'm fine playing men on stage - and my private life is my private life'

The BBC Music Magazine Interview

9 mins

By Royal Invitation

As this year's big moment at Westminster Abbey approaches, Andrew Green meets some of the choristers who sang at the coronation of Elizabeth II back in 1953

7 mins

From brush to bow

Close friends with leading musicians of his day, the great English painter Thomas Gainsborough was a keen player himself. Michael White visits Gainsborough's House in Suffolk to find out more

7 mins

Beethoven reframed

Gianandrea Noseda's new symphony cycle reevaluates the composer through the music of George Walker and the art of Mo Willems

6 mins

Frenchmaster

Roger Nichols shares his personal recollections of the much esteemed yet reserved French composer Henri Dutilleux, who died ten years ago this month

8 mins

Sheffield UK

Claire Jackson visits the city's Chamber Music Festival where, at The Crucible, the click clack of snooker balls gives way to intimate harmony

3 mins

György Ligeti

Ivan Hewett traces the life and career of the great avant-garde composer and investigates what lies at the heart of his enigmatic genius

6 mins

Live choice

Paul Riley picks the month's best concert and opera highlights in the UK

6 mins

Music that changed me

Simon Callow Actor

3 mins

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BBC Music Magazine is a monthly classical music magazine published by Immediate Media Company. It was first published in 1992 and is the best-selling classical music magazine in the world.

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