BBC Music Magazine - August 2023

In this issue

Voices from the past
A new compendium of first-hand musical accounts from centuries past catches the eye of Simon Heighes.

A song in her heart
Rebecca Franks explores an engaging new project to make the songs of Fanny Hensel available online to all.

Breaking the sound barrier
Ailís Ní Ríain explains to Claire Jackson how hearing loss brings unique challenges to her work as a composer..

Rise of the machines?

Artificial Intelligence is suddenly everywhere, and its tentacles are stretching into the musical world. But there's no need to panic... at least not quite yet, says Tom Service

2 mins

The 25 GREATEST BRITISH COMPOSERS of all time

We asked 167 top musicians to vote for the best composing talent to emerge from these fair isles over the centuries. Here are the results...

10+ mins

My hair was still growing back-but I needed to show the singing world that I was back in action

Having survived cancer treatment, the English mezzosoprano appears stronger than ever and is fighting for cultural organisations close to her heart, as she tells Amanda Holloway

7 mins

Lost in translation?

Stephen Johnson takes a look at how large-scale British works have fared in the hands of overseas conductors, from the composers' own day to ours

8 mins

Voices from the past

A new compendium gathering 600 years of first-hand accounts of music, art and society gives a fascinating insight, says Simon Heighes

6 mins

A song in her heart

Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn) wrote 255 songs, many of them never published. Tenor Timothy Parker-Langston's new online edition is making them available for all, as he explains to Rebecca Franks

7 mins

Song of courage

Opera tenor Nicola Ugo Stame took on many roles but proved himself a true hero during World War II in his defiance against fascism, says Christopher Gillett

7 mins

Breaking the sound barrier

For composer Ailís Ní Ríain, hearing loss is a complication but not an obstacle to her creativity, as she explains to Claire Jackson

6 mins

Cumnock Scotland

Home of James MacMillan’s Tryst festival, the picturesque Ayrshire town punches well above its musical weight, as Clare Stevens discovers

3 mins

George Onslow

Admired by several notable contemporaries, the man once dubbed 'the French Beethoven' is surely ripe for reappraisal, says Misha Donat

7 mins

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