Music to my Ears
BBC Music Magazine’s brand new podcast, Music to my Ears, features a series of interviews with well-known classical musicians and composers about their musical passions and discoveries. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to ensure you never miss an episode.Podcasts
Cosmo Sheldrake | Musician, composer and producer
Published: Aug. 12, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 38 seconds
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Jakub Jozef Orlinski | Countertenor
Published: Aug. 5, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 33 seconds
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Peter Jablonski | Pianist
Published: July 28, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 20 seconds
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Hannah Rankin | Boxer and Bassoonist
Published: July 21, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 56 seconds
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Julian Bliss | Clarinettist
Published: July 14, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 30 seconds
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Georgia Mann | BBC Radio 3 Broadcaster
Published: July 7, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 32 seconds
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Milos Karadaglic | Guitarist
Published: June 30, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 22 seconds
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Octavia Bright and Heloise Werner | Librettist and composer
Published: June 24, 2021, 8:43 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 4 seconds
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Amit Chaudhuri | Author and Indian Classical Singer
Published: June 16, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 25 seconds
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Julian Lloyd Webber | Cellist
Published: June 9, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 21 seconds
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Edith Bowman | DJ and Broadcaster
Published: May 26, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 44 seconds
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Music to my Ears Season 3 | Trailer
Published: May 19, 2021, 8:45 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 54 seconds
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Paul Morley | Journalist
Published: Feb. 3, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 51 seconds
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Caroline Shaw | Violinist
Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 4 seconds
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Caroline Shaw | Composer
Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 49 seconds
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Vasily Petrenko | Conductor
Published: Jan. 20, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 56 seconds
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Debbie Wiseman | Composer
Published: Jan. 13, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 18 seconds
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Alan Rusbridger | Journalist
Published: Jan. 6, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 13 seconds
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Karina Canellakis | Conductor
Published: Dec. 30, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 5 seconds
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Ailish Tynan | Soprano
Published: Dec. 16, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 34 seconds
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Errollyn Wallen | Composer
Published: Dec. 9, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 59 seconds
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Deborah Frances-White | Comedian and host of The Guilty Feminist
Published: Dec. 2, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 32 seconds
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Music to my Ears Season 2 | Trailer
Published: Nov. 25, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 35 seconds
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Isata Kanneh-Mason Pianist
Published: Sept. 16, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 12 seconds
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Zeb Soanes - Newsreader
Published: Sept. 9, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 13 seconds
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Sally Beamish - Composer
Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 33 seconds
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Jake Heggie - Composer
Published: Aug. 26, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 7 seconds
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Anna Lapwood - Organist and choirmaster
Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 54 seconds
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Nicholas Collon - Conductor
Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 59 seconds
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Amy Dickson - Saxophonist
Published: Aug. 5, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 22 seconds
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Mahan Esfahani - Harpsichordist
Published: July 29, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 49 seconds
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Introducing Music to my Ears
Published: July 22, 2020, 11 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 21 seconds
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Bluegrass Music Gregorian Chant Return of the BBC Proms
Published: June 12, 2020, 3:17 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 32 seconds
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Drive-in operas BBC Music Magazine Awards Music and fashion
Published: May 14, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 11 seconds
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Culture in Quarantine Ravi Shankar Cyrillus Kreek
Published: April 16, 2020, 3:20 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 22 seconds
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Cancelled concerts Women in classical music Angela Hewitt's piano
Published: March 26, 2020, 11:07 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 46 seconds
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Carbon-neutral orchestras Beethoven's deafness Sofia Gubaidulina
Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 2:04 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 17 seconds
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Oscars Nominations Beethoven Piccolo Chamber Music
Published: Jan. 23, 2020, 7:30 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 15 seconds
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Nicola Benedetti Mariss Jansons JoAnn Falletta
Published: Dec. 24, 2019, 10 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 43 seconds
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Handel's Messiah Contemporary Christmas carols Bah! humbug!
Published: Nov. 29, 2019, 4:15 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 59 seconds
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Hildegard von Bingen Opera Age Ratings Gabriela Montero Piano Concerto
Published: Nov. 5, 2019, 10:22 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 3 seconds
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Critics at the ENO Shostakovich and football Marsalis and Benedetti
Published: Oct. 3, 2019, 12:14 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 4 seconds
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Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kozena Girl Choristers BBC Philharmonic App
Published: Sept. 6, 2019, 11:37 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 49 seconds
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Edward Gardner Royal Philharmonic Society Elgar Cello Concerto
Published: Aug. 9, 2019, 10:30 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 19 seconds
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The Power of Puccini BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Herbert Howells
Published: July 4, 2019, 9:54 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 19 seconds
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BBC Proms Rachel Podger BBC New Generation Artists
Published: June 14, 2019, 4:05 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 19 seconds
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Royal Opera House Notre Dame I Fagiolini
Published: May 15, 2019, 8:59 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 33 seconds
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Vikingur Olafsson BBC Music Magazine Awards Roxanna Panufnik
Published: April 11, 2019, 3:18 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds
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Festivals Greatest Film Theme Jeremy Denk
Published: March 25, 2019, 12:48 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 17 seconds
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Berlioz London Concert Hall Tasmin Little
Published: March 5, 2019, 10:52 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 38 seconds
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James Rhodes BBC Music Magazine Awards Florence Price
Published: Jan. 22, 2019, 11:55 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 33 seconds
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Vivaldi's Four Seasons Kerry Andrew Ada Lovelace
Published: Dec. 21, 2018, 11:47 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 2 seconds
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Young Chorister of the Year Bryn Terfel Jean Rondeau
Published: Dec. 6, 2018, 12:47 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 21 seconds
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Our Classical Century Montserrat Caballe Igor Levit
Published: Oct. 25, 2018, 10:31 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 37 seconds
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Who the devil was Paganini? Dame Ethel Smyth London Symphony Orchestra
Published: Oct. 2, 2018, 3:07 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 41 seconds
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Cellist Steven Isserlis Parry centenary Radio 3 carol competition
Published: Sept. 19, 2018, 1:51 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 11 seconds
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Jess Gillam Oliver Knussen Ludwig van Beethoven
Published: Aug. 20, 2018, 10:50 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 2 seconds
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BBC Proms Alfred Brendel John Adams
Published: July 5, 2018, 3:41 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 41 seconds
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Elgar Enigma Variations Conductor Vladimir Jurowski The Original Glastonbury
Published: May 30, 2018, 1:24 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 43 seconds
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Conductor Bernard Haitink BBC Young Musician Grazyna Bacewicz
Published: April 17, 2018, 4:30 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 21 seconds
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Claude Debussy centenary Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja Super Bowl wager
Published: March 26, 2018, 11:44 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 18 seconds
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Pianist Paul Lewis Irish National Opera Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Published: Feb. 26, 2018, 4:43 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 19 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Ann Hallenberg
Published: Sept. 1, 2017, 12:13 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 26 seconds
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First Listen: Palisander, ORA, I Fagiolini, Robin Michael
Published: July 25, 2017, 12:52 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 11 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Prokofiev Piano Sonatas Nos 2, 6 and 8
Published: Feb. 16, 2017, 4:18 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 47 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Cover CD (February 2017): Glass & Adams
Published: Feb. 15, 2017, 11:09 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 10 seconds
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First Listen: A Violin for All Seasons
Published: Dec. 13, 2016, 9:39 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 2 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Cover CD (Christmas 2016): A King's Singers Christmas
Published: Dec. 9, 2016, 11:28 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 9 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Elgar orchestral works
Published: Nov. 21, 2016, 10 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 4 seconds
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First Listen: War Memorials
Published: Nov. 10, 2016, 12:51 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 9 seconds
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Recording of the Month: CPE Bach Cello Concertos
Published: Nov. 3, 2016, 5:26 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 32 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Cover CD (December 2016): The Art of Fugue
Published: Oct. 27, 2016, 2:22 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 32 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Cover CD (November 2016): The Desert Music
Published: Oct. 14, 2016, 9:40 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 32 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Cover CD (October 2016): Best of British
Published: Oct. 14, 2016, 9:33 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 43 seconds
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First Listen: Ben Johnston String Quartets
Published: Aug. 31, 2016, 9:43 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 32 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Handel's favourite tenor
Published: Aug. 31, 2016, 9:24 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 19 seconds
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First Listen: Rebecca Clarke Music for cello and piano
Published: Aug. 25, 2016, 4:01 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 42 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Cover CD (September 2016): Beethoven Symphony No. 3
Published: Aug. 9, 2016, 12:16 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 58 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Satie Socrate
Published: Aug. 5, 2016, 2:14 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 27 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1-9
Published: July 14, 2016, 8:42 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 46 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Cover CD (August 2016): Beethoven, Brahms and Webern
Published: July 8, 2016, 1:09 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 23 seconds
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First Listen: Leoncavallo Zaza
Published: June 24, 2016, 2:31 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 51 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Cover CD (July 2016): Mahler Symphony No. 9
Published: June 16, 2016, 10:54 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 55 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Cover CD (June 2016): Mendelssohn
Published: June 6, 2016, 1:53 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 1 second
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Recording of the Month: Martinu piano trios
Published: May 31, 2016, 1:26 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 45 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Janacek Glagolitic Mass
Published: May 4, 2016, 2:53 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 18 seconds
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First Listen: Howells Collegium Regale
Published: April 13, 2016, 3:52 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 47 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Handel Water Music
Published: April 8, 2016, 1:06 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 42 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Cover CD (April): Yehudi Menuhin
Published: March 17, 2016, 4:07 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 51 seconds
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First Listen: Liberte, egalite, sororite
Published: March 7, 2016, 2:01 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 49 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Cover CD: French piano works
Published: Feb. 24, 2016, 11:52 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 14 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and Stravinsky Les noces
Published: Feb. 17, 2016, 4:25 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 1 second
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First Listen: Copland orchestral works
Published: Feb. 9, 2016, 12:33 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 20 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos
Published: Jan. 27, 2016, 10:01 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 52 seconds
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First Listen: Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Published: Jan. 20, 2016, 1:03 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 28 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Igor Levit plays Bach, Beethoven and Rzewski
Published: Dec. 23, 2015, 9:44 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 40 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Brahms and Bruckner motets
Published: Dec. 21, 2015, 9:28 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 8 seconds
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First Listen: Sibelius Symphonies
Published: Dec. 18, 2015, 3:39 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 12 seconds
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Recording of the Month: JS Bach Violin Concertos
Published: Nov. 17, 2015, 2:03 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds
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First Listen: Bernstein Kaddish Symphony
Published: Oct. 23, 2015, 1:50 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 14 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Strauss Symphonia Domestica and Die Tageszeiten
Published: Oct. 23, 2015, 10:05 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 49 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Verdi Aida
Published: Oct. 23, 2015, 9:04 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 57 seconds
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First Listen: Vaughan Williams
Published: Sept. 11, 2015, 9:58 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 56 seconds
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First Listen: Danish and Faroese Recorder Concertos
Published: Aug. 12, 2015, 9:34 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 52 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Mozart arias and overtures
Published: Aug. 12, 2015, 9:32 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 28 seconds
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First Listen: France-Espagne
Published: July 29, 2015, 10:55 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 47 seconds
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Recording of the Month: American Polyphony
Published: July 10, 2015, 3:26 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 50 seconds
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First Listen: St Luke Passion
Published: July 2, 2015, 11:46 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 18 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Schubert played by Andras Schiff
Published: June 12, 2015, 10:27 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 45 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony
Published: May 27, 2015, 10:23 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 28 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine cover CD: Elgar Sea Pictures
Published: March 18, 2015, 2 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 16 seconds
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First Listen: Broadway-Lafayette
Published: March 3, 2015, 11 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 56 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2015: Opera
Published: Feb. 26, 2015, 10:30 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 41 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2015: Vocal
Published: Feb. 25, 2015, 11 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 20 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Schumann Kreisleriana Symphonic Studies
Published: Feb. 24, 2015, 10:45 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2015: Chamber
Published: Feb. 20, 2015, 3:10 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 48 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine cover CD: Sviatoslav Richter live in concert
Published: Feb. 20, 2015, 10:37 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 18 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2015: Instrumental
Published: Feb. 18, 2015, 3:10 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 42 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2015: Concerto
Published: Feb. 12, 2015, 2:03 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 46 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Hasses Siroe
Published: Feb. 5, 2015, 4:32 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 51 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2015: Choral
Published: Jan. 30, 2015, 10:33 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 6 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2015: Orchestral
Published: Jan. 23, 2015, 9 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 3 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine cover CD: Sibelius
Published: Jan. 21, 2015, noonDuration: 12 minutes 15 seconds
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First Listen: Sculthorpe String Quartets
Published: Jan. 13, 2015, 11:42 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 43 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Vaughan Williams orchestral works
Published: Jan. 7, 2015, 10:54 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine cover CD: JS Bach Cello Suites
Published: Jan. 2, 2015, 9:43 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 9 seconds
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First Listen: Cecilia Bartoli St Petersburg
Published: Dec. 18, 2014, 9 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 25 seconds
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Recording of the Month: Elgars The Dream of Gerontius
Published: Dec. 17, 2014, 1:30 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 20 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine cover CD: On Christmas Night
Published: Dec. 17, 2014, 10:06 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 59 seconds
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First Listen: La Fauvette Passerinette
Published: Dec. 17, 2014, 9:26 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 44 seconds
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Shostakovich Symphonies Nos 6 and 14 Recording of the Month
Published: Nov. 10, 2014, 10:33 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 24 seconds
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Blow out, ye bugles First Listen
Published: Oct. 31, 2014, 11:58 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 36 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Cover CD: CPE Bach
Published: Oct. 30, 2014, 3:45 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 14 seconds
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Faure Requiem Recording of the Month
Published: Oct. 9, 2014, 3:50 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 43 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Cover CD: Schumann and Schubert
Published: Oct. 1, 2014, 1:19 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 51 seconds
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Music for Alfred Hitchcock First Listen
Published: Sept. 29, 2014, 10:49 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 26 seconds
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Benjamin Grosvenors Dances Recording of the Month
Published: Sept. 18, 2014, 3:38 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 8 seconds
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Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos First Listen
Published: Sept. 9, 2014, 3:41 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 42 seconds
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Bruckner Symphony No. 9 Recording of the Month
Published: Sept. 9, 2014, 3 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 46 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Cover CD: Brahms
Published: Sept. 4, 2014, 3:53 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 27 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Cover CD: The Great Sopranos
Published: Aug. 8, 2014, 5:03 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 36 seconds
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Howells Violin Sonatas First Listen
Published: July 25, 2014, 10:49 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 40 seconds
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BBC Music Magazine Cover CD: Beethoven
Published: July 10, 2014, 11:28 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 35 seconds
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First Listen Bernstein West Side Story
Published: June 27, 2014, 2:09 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 13 seconds
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