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

RisingStars • Today’s top young performers offer sage advice to their peers

Elks but no electricity, as the Sibelius family moves house

Also in September 1904…

The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites…

Concert Heaven Concert Hell • Top artists recall their best and worst performances

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Symphony of stars

FAREWELL TO…

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

Richard Morrison • Should we urge talented youngsters to embark on a musical career?

Gustav Holst Beyond The Planets • As we mark Holst’s 150th anniversary, Daniel Jaffé explores the incredible diversity of works we should be celebrating beyond the English composer’s famous astrological suite

Holst: bringer of jollity • Despite his serious public image, the composer was more relaxed and happy in private, as photos from the Holst Victorian House show…

Antonio Pappano

Reel lives • As he marks his 80th birthday, conductor Leonard Slatkin shares his lifelong connection to the music of Hollywood

Song and dance man • When Cecil Sharp died 100 years ago, he had collected nearly 5,000 English folk tunes. Andrew Green takes a look at his important legacy

A Classroom Collaboration • Charlotte Smith spends a day at the Shireland CBSO Academy, the UK’s first state school to partner with a professional orchestra

Back to the classroom • For many orchestras, outreach work within the school system is a vital part of establishing community connections, writes Clare Stevens

Tsinandali Georgia • The Tsinandali Festival is defying the region’s political tensions by bringing together young musicians in harmony, writes John Allison

Imogen Holst • Her devotion to others was admirable, but this self-effacing composer deserves to enjoy the spotlight in her own right, says Leah Broad

IMOGEN HOLST Life&Times

Arnold Schoenberg Pelleas und Melisande • Erik Levi enjoys Schoenberg in lushly Romantic mode as he explores the finest recordings of the Austrian’s dramatic symphonic poem from 1903

Three other great recordings

Continue the journey… • We suggest works to explore after Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande

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Reviews • Recordings and books rated by expert critics

Composer’s notes

Cleveland grip in an ideal pairing • Erik Levi enjoys this virtuosic double helping of Bartók and Prokofiev

Volatile and virtuosic solo performances • Pianist Anna Gourari dazzles in this Schnittke and Hindemith, says Erik Levi

Marvellous Mozart from versatile Viotti • The mezzo proves herself to be quite the multifaceted artist, says George Hall

A lyrical set of 17th-century premieres • Kate Bolton-Porciatti finds Concerto Italiano’s Stradella motets to be revelatory

Loeffler’s ‘lost’ Octet is a compelling rediscovery • Christopher...