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JANUARY 2020

FEATURES

28 Cover story: Nicola Benedetti
Richard Morrison meets the brilliant international
violinist as she prepares to launch her music
education charity, the Benedetti Foundation

36 The BBC Music Magazine Interview
Violist Lawrence Power talks to Kate Molleson about the
responsibility of musicians to commission new work
40 Les Six

Roger Nichols celebrates the centenary of a group of
French composers determined to sweep in the new
44 The English organ

Daniel Moult tells the story of how social change and
musical tastes transformed Britain’s pipe organ
48 15 conductor types

From dictators and jokers to screamers and dancers,
conductors are a varied bunch, writes Jeremy Pound

EVERY MONTH

8 Letters

12 The Full Score
Who’s Mozart?; Kanye West’s opera; Mariss Jansons

27 Richard Morrison
What drives pop stars to write an ‘opera’?
52 Musical Destinations

Freya Parr heads to the Megève Festival Savoy Truffle
54 Composer of the Month Cover CD editor Alice Pearson
Dvo!ák bred pigeons in Bohemia
Claire Jackson looks at the work of Morton Feldman
Listings editor Paul Riley
64 Building a Library Bruckner lost his glasses in Schubert’s coffin
Subscriptions £64.87 (UK); £65 (Europe); Art editor Dav Ludford
The finest recordings of Ligeti’s Violin Concerto £74 (Rest of World) ABC Reg No. 3122 Designer Liam McAuley
102 Live events EDITORIAL Picture editor Sarah Kennett
Plus each member of the editorial team
Thanks to Daniel Jaffé;
104 Radio & TV listings COVER: JOHN MILLAR THIS PAGE: JOHN MILLAR, RICHARD CANNON, GETTY, ANDREW MCCOY digs up an obscure classical music fact Samuel Robinson; Patrick Morris
MARKETING
Editor Oliver Condy
112 Crossword and Quiz Bernstein had a passion for sumo wrestling Subscriptions director
Deputy editor Jeremy Pound Jacky Perales-Morris
Percy Grainger invented a sports bra Direct marketing executive
114 Music that Changed Me
Managing editor Rebecca Franks Craig Ramsay
Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier Beethoven wrote an elegy for a dead poodle ADVERTISING
Reviews editor Michael Beek Advertising Sales Director
Shostakovich loved ‘Jesus Christ, Superstar’ Mark Reen +44 (0)117 300 8810
Editorial assistant Freya Parr Advertisement manager
Nielsen was an avid knitter Louise Dunn +44 (0)117 300 8813

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