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FEATURES 26 BBC Music Magazine Awards 2023

It’s time to vote on the finest recordings of last year, as shortlisted by BBC Music’s panel of expert reviewers 30 Cover: Riccardo Chailly

At 70, La Scala’s conductor tells George Hall about his remarkable career, from Milan to Amsterdam and back 40 All you need is love Rebecca Franks explores how composers have depicted the pleasures and pains of falling in and out of love 44 A tale of lost folk Once omnipresent, folk music is slowly disappearing from global communities, as Michael Church explains 48 Late bloomers Ariane Todes reports on how the Royal Irish Academy of Music is welcoming adults back to the practice room

EVERY MONTH 8 Letters 12 The Full Score 25 Richard Morrison 36 The BBC Music Magazine Interview

Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor enters the complex world of Brahms and the Schumanns with Jessica Duchen 58 Musical Destinations

Kate Bolton-Porciatti basks in the Tuscan sunshine 60 Composer of the Month

The up-and-often-down career of Leoncavallo, composer of Pagliacci, is charted by Alexandra Wilson 64 Building a Library

Te r r y William s explores Elgar’s First Symphony 98 Live concert and opera highlights 100 Radio & TV listings 104 Crossword and Quiz 106 Music that Changed Me

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Subscriptions £64.87 (UK); £65 (Europe); £74 (Rest of World) ABC Reg No. 3122 EDITORIAL Plus our favourite romantic work (see p40) Editor Charlotte Smith Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 Deputy editor Jeremy Pound Arlen & Harburg’s ‘Down with love’ Reviews editor Michael Beek Martini’s Plaisir d’amour Multi-platform content producer Steve Wright Robert Schumann’s Fantasie in C Cover CD editor Alice Pearson Chopin’s Nocturne in E f lat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Art editor Dav Ludford

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