BBC YOUNG MUSICIAN

We celebrate 40 years of TV’s inspiring competition

BRILLIANT BRAHMS

Robin Ticciati’s stunning new symphony cycle

The world’s best-selling classical music magazine

Awards 2018!

Bernard Haitink triumphs with a blistering Mahler Symphony No. 3 See all BBC Music Magazine Award winners on p26

The Flying Dutchman The best recordings of Wagner’s s tormy opera

London’s lost venues The concert halls that

vanished forever

BEDRICH SMETANA GILBERT & SULLIVAN PIERS LANE and more!

110 reviews by the world’s finest critics CDs, DVDs & books – see p72