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JUNE 2023
June Radio 3
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FEATURES 26 Cover: And the winners are…
From solo violin recitals to rampaging operatic dragons, we present the BBC Music Magazine Awards 023, plus interviews with all the winning performers 44 Vive la révolution! Roger Nichols explores in depth the wonderful variety of Saint-Saëns’s f ive groundbreaking piano concertos 50 A slave no more G a y l e Wood on the remarkable story of Joseph Emidy,
from captivity in South America to violin superstar 54 Smooth operator Conductor Oliver Zeffman tells Michael White about staging concerts in unlikely and imaginative spaces
EVERY MONTH 8 Letters 12 The Full Score 25 Richard Morrison 40 The BBC Music Magazine Interview
Legendary violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter celebrates her 60th birthday in the company of Ariane Todes 58 Musical Destinations
Laurence Vittes heads to California’s Napa Valley 60 Composer of the Month
Andrew Stewart on William Byrd, a Catholic composer who def ied the many dangers of Elizabethan England 64 Building a Library
The finest recordings of Rebecca Clarke’s Viola Sonata are named by Rebecca Franks, who tells the work’s story 98 Live concert and opera highlights 100 Radio & TV
Including full BBC Radio 3 listings 104 Crossword and Quiz 106 Music that Changed Me
Soprano Angel Blue
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Subscriptions £64.87 (UK); £65 (Europe); £74 (Rest of World) ABC Reg No. 3122 EDITORIAL Plus an unusual venue we’d like to see a concert staged in (see p54) Editor Charlotte Smith Godaido obser vat ion deck, Yamadera, Japan Deputy editor Jeremy Pound Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain Reviews editor Michael Beek Wieliczka Salt Mine, Krakow, Poland Multi-platform content producer Ste ve Wr i g ht Hidcote Manor Garden, Gloucestershire Cover CD editor A l ic e Pea r son Lavender f ields , Sénanque, France
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