BBC Music Magazine – August 2016
English | 110 pages | PDF | 48.2 MB
English | 110 pages | PDF | 48.2 MB
Which is the greatest symphony ever written? We asked 151 leading conductors to vote in our poll, and this month we reveal the results. Find out which works made it into the top 20, plus see how each of the conductors voted. James Naughtie meets violinist Jennifer Pike, who won BBC Young Musician at the age of 12. Plus we explore how World War One shaped Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony, celebrate the French composer Charles Gounod and go behind the scenes of BBC Radio 4’s music quiz, Counterpoint.