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The full score • Our pick of the month’s news, views and interviews

RisingStars • Three to look out for…

Mozart’s marriage stops a visit from the Vienna police

Also in August 1782…

The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites…

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

MyHero

Do notes win votes?

FAREWELL TO…

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN • Pick a theme… and name your seven favourite examples

Julia Wolfe • The Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer is a founding member of the legendary new music ensemble Bang on a Can. Her 2019 oratorio Fire in my mouth, inspired by the 1911 fire at New York’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, receives its UK premire at the Edinburgh Festival on 21 August, conducted by Marin Alsop.

Richard Morrison • Do classical works about mortality reveal more to us as we get older?

Sweet Sixteen • As The Sixteen celebrates its 45th birthday, founder Harry Christophers speaks to Andrew Stewart about directing a choral powerhouse

Federico Colli • THE BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE INTERVIEW

Golden years • Young musicians may be physically fit, but with age come the advantages of wisdom and experience, as Ariane Todes explains

Symphonies beside the sea • Before cinema, the wireless and coach trips cast them adrift, seaside orchestras were once a major holiday attraction, writes Andrew Green

Harmonic Progression • What happens when classical music-style levels of ambition, invention and sheer length are brought to pop? The answer, as Meurig Bowen explains, is Prog Rock

Discovering Donizetti • Thanks to a two-year lockdown project, nearly 200 previously lost Donizetti songs will now see the light of day, writes Alexandra Wilson

Västra Karup Sweden • The spirit of soprano Birgit Nilsson is alive and well in the town of her birth, home to a festival dedicated to her memory, writes Tom Stewart

Bohuslav Martinů • Though the Czech absorbed many influences from his exile abroad, his colourful music was always distinctively his own, says Steve Wright

MARTINŮ Life&Times

Philip Glass Piano Etudes • Rebecca Franks studies closely as she listens to the finest recordings of 20 pieces that offer much more than their dry didactic title suggests

Three other great recordings

Continue the journey… • We suggest five further works to explore after Glass’s Piano Etudes

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Reviews • Recordings and books rated by expert critics

From core to crust, this Earthy symphony is a hit • Rebecca Franks enjoys the distinctive levels of ‘Strata’, Eleanor Alberga’s delightfully fresh First Symphony

Poltéra plays perfectly pitched Prokofiev • Jo Talbot enjoys the cellist’s honeyed tones in this glowing Symphony-Concerto

Nothing false about these performances • Soloists and orchestra make short work of Le prophète, says Christopher

Pears-shaped pieces just ripe for revival • Ashutosh...