BBC Music Magazine – February 2018
English | 128 pages | PDF | 54.0 MB
English | 128 pages | PDF | 54.0 MB
As Paul Lewis embarks on a two-year tour of Haydn's keyboard masterpieces, Claire Jackson meets the British pianist to talk about the Austrian composer's comic genius and hidden depths. Lewis also appears on your free cover CD, performing concertos by Shostakovich and Schnittke. Also in this issue, James Naughtie meets the tenor and fortepiano duo Mark Padmore and Kristian Bezuidenhout to discuss Schubert's song-cycle Winterreise. Plus Shirley Thompson tells the story of the trailblazing African-American composer Florence Price, the remarkable Lili Boulanger is our Composer of the Month, and Brian Wise marks the 50th anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey with a look at how its soundtrack changed the face of film music.