BBC Music Magazine
A visceral insight into a great musical imagination
Steph Power is left exhilarated by the LPO’s survey of operatic suites by the British composer Thomas Adès
1 min |
June 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Queen of arts
Errollyn Wallen is riding high on a year of triumphs that include becoming Master of the King's Music, writes Claire Jackson
3 min |
June 2025
BBC Music Magazine
And relax...
The music that calms us can be deeply personal, writes Claire Jackson, yet certain universal elements are scientifically proven to ease stress
6 min |
June 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Savonlinna Finland
Forests, lakes, a 550-year-old fairytale castle and a famous opera festival... Charlotte Smith is entranced by this charming Nordic town
3 min |
June 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Felix Mendelssohn
Erik Levi basks in the Mediterranean sunshine and sips a limoncello as he enjoys the genial company of this most radiant of orchestral works
6 min |
June 2025
BBC Music Magazine
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Pick a theme... and name your seven favourite examples
3 min |
June 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Richard Morrison
Music's power to unlock memories in dementia patients is remarkable
3 min |
June 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Left-field learning
Despite an education steeped in the Russian tradition, noted pianist Nikolai Lugansky forged an unusual path to a stellar career,
6 min |
June 2025
BBC Music Magazine
How to bring listening pleasure to your desktop
Our expert Chris Haslam gives advice on buying the latest hi-fi equipment
3 min |
June 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Kreisler across the ages
Thirty years of the great violinist's concerto recordings make for a truly fascinating tribute
1 min |
June 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Shore scores to the fore
This Parisian tribute to the big-screen career of composer Howard Shore is a visceral delight
1 min |
June 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Anna Lapwood
Anna Lapwood has given organ music a major boost with her viral TikTok videos and unlikely but brilliant transcriptions for the instrument. The multi-talented British artist, who is soon to turn 30, recently stepped down as music director at Pembroke College, Cambridge, to concentrate on her solo career. Her new album, Firedove, is out on Sony Classical on 30 May.
3 min |
June 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Great Dame
When flames engulfed Notre-Dame in 2019, the organ miraculously survived. Now cleaned and restored, it is sounding as good as ever,
6 min |
June 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Soundbites!
As Steven Spielberg's Jaws celebrates 50 years old, Charlotte Smith explores the vital role played by John Williams's famously unsettling soundtrack
6 min |
June 2025
Record Collector
Vesuvius And Them
Floyd's 70s film goes HD and Steven Wilson gets hold of the audio to create a right old Bacchanalian beanfeast.
3 min |
June 2025
Record Collector
Remixed Fortunes
Rock veterans' live set gets a makeover – and now even their frontman has come 'round to it.
5 min |
June 2025
Record Collector
The Common Touch
Nearly 24 years on, Jarvis & co. return in life-affirming fashion.
7 min |
June 2025
Record Collector
ANGELIC UPSTARTS THE MURDER OF LIDLE TOWERS POLICE OPPRESSION
I think I've got a really rare record. It came to me through my late brother who was a big punk fan and bought a lot of records back in the late 70s and early 80s.
10+ min |
June 2025
Record Collector
Boss tones
Bruce Springsteen unissued treasure trove due in box sets
1 min |
June 2025
Record Collector
33 ⅓ minutes with... Kerry Minnear
Kerry Minnear joined Gentle Giant in 1970. Whereas the core of the band - brothers Phil, Derek and Ray Shulman - progressed from popsike hitmakers Simon Dupree & The Big Sound, Minnear came more or less straight from The Royal Academy of Music where he graduated with qualifications in musical composition, piano and classical percussion.
4 min |
June 2025
Record Collector
"IF I WAS STILL USING I WOULDN'T BE DOING THIS INTERVIEW"
Depending on what papers you read, back in the 00s Peter Doherty was either co-frontman of the most influential British guitar band of their generation or a crack-piping jailbird forever in the crosshairs of Fleet Street. A miracle, then, that in 2025 the Libertines and Babyshambles singer is not only drug-free but back with his strongest solo album to date. “Everything has shifted,” he tells Simon Goddard. Wastered youth: Roger Sargent
10+ min |
June 2025
Record Collector
Sweet Soul Music
Revisiting an organic funk classic which regenerated the groove.
2 min |
June 2025
Record Collector
bat out of hell
If, goth-wise, Siouxsie ruled 2023 and The Cure did the same in 2024, then 2025 looks set to be the year of Peter Murphy. The Bauhaus frontman and goth O.G. is back with a career- best solo album, recorded with Killing Joke’s Youth in Spain and featuring guest appearances from Boy George and Trent Reznor. But will the Silver Sufist grab a golden opportunity, or will he, dogged by personal issues, clutch defeat from the jaws of victory once more? One thing’s for certain: he'll do it his way. “Forty years on, I don’t chase trends,” he advises Jeremy Allen.
10+ min |
June 2025
Record Collector
Live and let Live
Survey of gig-goers calls for government and industry action
2 min |
June 2025
Record Collector
Essex Serpents
Southend siblings' dark, daring and brilliant fifth.
4 min |
June 2025
Record Collector
THE MOTOR-CYCLE GIRL
Despite advance hype (\"the greatest pop artist since Aretha Franklin,\" according to her label, Atlantic), 19-yearold New Yorker Lotti Golden's opus, Motor-Cycle, stalled in 1969. She tells Charles Donovan how a determined reissue label and some enthusiastic bloggers helped her rev it up in 2025
10+ min |
June 2025
Record Collector
Revolutionary folk
Dick Gaughan gets an eight-disc box set with unissued cuts
1 min |
June 2025
Record Collector
More of the Worlds
Jeff Wayne's 1978 magnum opus gets an 18-disc box set
1 min |
June 2025
Record Collector
Starr turn
Collector of The Beatles seeks Ringo Starr correspondents
1 min |
June 2025
Record Collector
THE RASTA'S HISTORY
The militant Malcolm X to Bob Marley's Martin Luther King Jr, Peter Tosh would take to the stage brandishing an M16-shaped guitar, clad in a karate uniform indicative of his black-belt skills. Nicknamed The Stepping Razor, the six-foot-four-inch former Wailer cut an imposing dash. But was that the whole story? Rich Davenport gets tough
10 min |