BBC Music Magazine
The BBC Music Magazine team's current favourites...
Bird in flight: Benedetti recorded The Lark in 2007
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November 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Christoph von Dohnányi Born 1929 Conductor
Born in Berlin, Christoph von Dohnányi came from an exceptional family.
1 min |
November 2025
BBC Music Magazine
My Hero
Gavric salutes and Ga her mother, and fellow pianist, Zrinka Gavrić for setting her on the path to her own concert career
1 min |
November 2025
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A captivating take on Weinberg's epic opera
The Vienna Philharmonic flourish in this brilliantly engaging contemporary production, notes Erik Levi
1 min |
November 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Concert Heaven Concert Hell
Top artists recall their best and worst performances
3 min |
November 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Grave occasions reveal an unexpected taste
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the graveyard...
1 min |
November 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Alison Balsom calls time on career
Last Night of the Proms to be trumpeter's final concert
2 min |
November 2025
BBC Music Magazine
An engaging recital with attentive performances
Kathryn Rudge, Alessandro Fisher and Penelope Thwaites make an impression on Terry Blain
1 min |
November 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Richard Morrison There's much that Europe and UK festivals can learn from each other
There’s a mischievous joke running through Harold Evans's scathing account of the British newspaper industry in the 1970s and ’80s, Good Times, Bad Times. As editor of The Times, he constantly tries to make contact with the paper's arts editor. Each time he attempts to set up a meeting he’s told that this elusive figure is ‘reviewing music festivals’ and in transit somewhere between Bayreuth and Verbier, or maybe Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence. In the end, Evans himself leaves the paper, still never having met his arts editor.
3 min |
November 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Stolen strings
Michael White tells how a violin, cruelly confiscated by the Nazis but now recovered, has inspired a new work by Huw Watkins about its heroic owner
6 min |
November 2025
Record Collector
LEADERS OF THE PACK
Anyone with a keen grasp of music history will be aware that Ace Records celebrated their 50th anniversary this year with a series of concerts and innovative events centred round their traditional home district of Camden Town, north London. Yet the genesis of the UK's most successful reissue label is somewhat more complicated. Michael Heatley takes a deep dive.
5 min |
November 2025
Record Collector
Sorted For LPS And Gios
From first-ever purchases to formative influences and failsafe floor-fillers, Jarvis Cocker reveals the records that mean the most to him.
10+ min |
November 2025
Record Collector
HELLO, IT'S TREE!
Incredibly, Todd Rundgren's debut album, Runt, celebrates its 55th anniversary this year. Less arborist than individualist, he tells RC about his journey from ace producer to true star, being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and whether his job is about to be usurped by AI. Son of 1984: Felix Rowe.
10+ min |
November 2025
Record Collector
UNDER THE RADAR
Artists, bands, and labels meriting more attention
4 min |
November 2025
Record Collector
331/3 minutes with...Samantha Fox
When the single Touch Me (I Want Your Body) came out in 1986, Sam Fox, still a teenager, was an unproven singer, albeit one of the nation's best-known glamour models.
4 min |
November 2025
Record Collector
SACRED AND PROFANE
While punk history often focuses on the Pistols and the Ramones as the prime movers in a global countercultural scene, in Australia, The Saints were arguably causing just as significant a stir around the same time. Now preparing to tour as The Saints '73-'78, surviving members tell their story
10 min |
November 2025
Record Collector
"I TOLD MICKIE MOST TO SHOVE IT"
The quintessential contender, Terry Reid, who died recently, passed on Robert Plant's role in Led Zeppelin, left Deep Purple to Ian Gillan and was the vocal equal of Paul Rodgers and Steve Marriott. He also, as this \"lost interview\" confirms, was the victim of numerous career mishaps. Not that he would have done things differently, as he told Nick Hasted...
10 min |
November 2025
Record Collector
45 minutes with... Maddy Prior
It's stabilised!
4 min |
November 2025
Classic Rock
The Soundtrack Of My Life
Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.
3 min |
October 2025
Classic Rock
Blaze Bayley
The singer and his band play the whole of Silicon Messiah.
2 min |
October 2025
Classic Rock
The Doobie Brothers
“We've been forced to remove the Jumbotron,” Patrick Simmons jokes, much to the relief of any shady CEOs and their HR mistresses tucked away at the back of the Arena.
2 min |
October 2025
Classic Rock
TERRY REID THE LAST INTERVIEW
Watching Woodstock with Joni Mitchell, making Donovan's song his own, being pals with Aretha Franklin, turning down Led Zeppelin, making wonderful solo albums... the British singer/guitarist had quite the life.
10+ min |
October 2025
Classic Rock
Zig Zags
The LA sleaze merchants with Iggy connections return with a head-crunching new album.
2 min |
October 2025
Classic Rock
Luke Morley
The Thunder guitarist on the band's future, his solo career and new album, playing with the Quireboys, songwriting...
4 min |
October 2025
Classic Rock
Castle Rat
Big Apple doomsters mixing Sabbath riffs, Kiss theatricality and D&D world-building.
2 min |
October 2025
Classic Rock
The Hives
The Swedes on making their Back In Black, royal waves and keeping their legacy alive through cover bands.
2 min |
October 2025
Classic Rock
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO LEMMY
As the undisputed leader of Motörhead, Ian Fraser Kilmister led an extraordinary life. In this candid interview from 2002, he explained what he learned... about women and men, drugs, violence, religion, rock'n'roll, and cooking the perfect dinner for one.
10+ min |
October 2025
Classic Rock
THE DESIGNER
Art guy 'Krusher' Joule talks amphetamines, fruit machines and... erm, fishing.
1 min |
October 2025
Classic Rock
LEMMY'S BASS TECH
Tim Butcher, who was with Lemmy for more than 30 years, on the loud antics of his much-adored boss.
2 min |
October 2025
Classic Rock
THE PUBLICIST
Nik Moore, Lemmy's right-hand man for more than 20 years, reflects on a partnership that was never, ever boring.
2 min |