BBC Music Magazine – April 2019
English | 122 pages | PDF | 51.1 MB
English | 122 pages | PDF | 51.1 MB
The votes have been counted, and the winners of the 2019 BBC Music Magazine Awards are announced in our May issue. We talk to Víkingur Ólafsson, the Icelandic pianist who took home the top prize of Recording of the Year for his recordings of JS Bach transcriptions.
In this month's BBC Music Magazine Interview, Kate Molleson meets young clarinettist and composer Mark Simpson to discuss his approach to performance and composition and the pressures on him at the start of his burgeoning career.
Following the release of his sparkling new biography on Michael Tippett, Oliver Soden uncovers a hidden period of left-wing extremism in the life of the pacifist composer. Also this month, we look back on the extraordinary life of André Previn, the late conductor, composer and pianist.
We name the finest recordings of Brahms's Clarinet Quintet and suggest a selection of works to listen to next. Plus, Karlheinz Stockhausen is our Composer of the Month. On your cover CD, we hear from the 2018 BBC Radio 2 Young Choristers of the Year.