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LETTER of the MONTH

Ivors Awards recognise a year of composing talent • Jonny Greenwood and Richard Blackford among those on the 2020 winners’ list

Ivors Composer Awards 2020 • Some of the highlights

Great honour makes organist swell with pride

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

Sound Bites

Rising Stars • Three to look out for…

Doctor Brahms indulges in some academic frivolity

Also in January 1881

Experience shows music is a matter of taste

DÉJÀ VU • History just keeps on repeating itself…

Outi Tarkiainen

Studio Secrets

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

Buried Treasure • Pianist Sabine Weyer shares three cherished recordings from her own collection

Sibelius, master of the cold

FAREWELL TO…

Music to my ears • What the classical world has been listening to this month

READERS’ CHOICE

READER’S CHOICE

Our Choices • The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites

Richard Morrison • A vaccine may be on the horizon, but there’s a long road to recovery ahead

Home Service • Faced with blank schedules and a cancelled honeymoon, violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster turned their thoughts to playing for others online. The resulting #UriPosteJukeBox, they tell Freya Parr, proved a major hit

2020: a year of bright ideas • RPS Inspiration Award winners

Away from the JukeBox • Elena Urioste and Tom Poster on disc

James Ehnes

James Ehnes on disc • Six of his finest recordings

Inspiringpresences • Jessica Duchen looks at the figures who, through physical beauty or other compelling qualities, became muses for the great composers

Pay it forward • Providing financial and moral support to emerging young musicians has proved to be one of life’s most rewarding experiences, explains David Lipsey

Lord Lipsey

A star in time • Geoffrey Smith remembers a brilliant musician whose rhythmic and tonal free-wheeling helped him become the epitome of 1950s and ’60s cool

Take Five • The best of Brubeck

15 socially distanced works • Claire Jackson explores a number of pandemic-ready pieces that already require their musicians to perform suitably apart

WELCOME BACK! LIVE MUSIC GUIDE 2021 • Introducing a season packed with performances we thought we’d never see, and a good deal more

Christchurch New Zealand • Clive Paget visits the resilient South Island city that turned two devastating earthquakes into a spectacular cultural opportunity

New Zealand’s wizard

Tomaso Albinoni • As the 350th anniversary of his birth draws near, the prolific but surprisingly obscure Venetian is explored by Kate Bolton-Porciatti

Albinoni’s style

ALBINONI Life&Times

Piano Trio No. 2 Dmitri Shostakovich • Erik Levi listens to the best recordings of the Soviet composer’s bleak work for piano, violin and cello, written at a time of personal tragedy

The composer

Three other great recordings

Continue the journey… • We suggest works to explore after Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2

A solid gold ‘Silver Age’ from Daniil Trifonov • The pianist undertakes this...