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• Winners announced at Ivors 2024
  Outstanding composers honoured at star-studded bash
• RisingStar
  Today’s up-and-coming talent offer advice for their peers
• Concert Heaven Concert Hell
  Top artists recall their best and worst performances
• THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
  Pick a theme… and name your seven favourite examples
• Richard Morrison
  If you could travel to any year in musical history, which would it be?
• Blue horizon
  Star of the 2024 Last Night of the Proms, soprano Angel Blue has taken the opera world by storm on both sides of the Atlantic – it’s a long way from local beauty pageants in California, as she tells Ashutosh Khandekar
• Analysing Amadeus
  Using today’s psychoanalytic methods, what can we learn, asks Rebecca Franks, about the mind of Mozart, perhaps the greatest musical genius of all?
• Musical formula
  Anecdotally, the scientific mind is often drawn to music says Naomi Yandell, who approaches six eminent scholars for their thoughts on its attraction
• When music bites
  Stephen Johnson explores satire in music, revealing how composers have used their craft to comment on the social and political worlds in which they live
• Beyond Hyacinth
  Though known chiefly for her brilliant portrayal of a social climber on TV’s Keeping Up Appearances, Patricia Routledge was once also a successful mezzo, as the actress recalls with Michael White
• Star-Spangled Bangers
  As Donald Trump is sworn in as America’s 47th president this month, Terry Blain looks back at the music that has shaped presidential inaugurations
• Lessons for life
  It’s official: playing an instrument is good for your mind and body. But, asks Ariane Todes, what other life skills can musicians teach us?
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• Eisenstadt Austria
  Rebecca Franks heads to the Austrian town where Joseph Haydn began his working life as kapellmeister for the noble Esterházy family
• Elisabetta de Gambarini
  Stephen Pritchard relates the sparkling talent, entrepreneurial drive and shameful treatment of an unheralded 18th-century musical pioneer
• Franz Schubert Die schöne Müllerin
  Amanda Holloway is all ears as she listens to the best recordings of this set of songs detailing the doleful cycle of love, hope, rejection and despair
• Continue the journey…
  We suggest five works to explore after Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin
• Peerless pianism from Alexandre Kantorow
  The outstanding French pianist makes light work of Brahms and Schubert in this exhilarating show, says Jessica Duchen
• A humbling perspective on our planet’s endurance
  Rebecca Franks is awed by John Luther Adams’s immersive new work with Earth’s timeline at its heart
• Yoav Levanon’s Liszt is an intense and thrilling ride
  The young Israeli-French pianist goes all in with this sparkling and dramatic display, says Rebecca Franks
• Hasse’s operatic desert tale gets a very starry premiere
  The who’s who of voices in this first recording of the composer’s fiery work make it a hit, says Berta Joncus
• An outstanding selection of modern works for choir
  The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir shine in this great set of pieces by US composers, says Kate Wakeling
• Cherishable works by an exiled Austrian composer
  Erik Levi enjoys discovering the life and music of Frederick Block in this superb ARC Ensemble album
• Francesco Corti thrills in this resplendent Scarlatti
  Nicholas Anderson enjoys the bravura of the Italian harpsichordist’s survey of these evocative solo works
• Joyous Oscar Peterson
  This live recording from 1994 showcases the great pianist’s quartet in truly uplifting style
• Brief notes
  This month’s selection of shorter reviews has rockers, requiems and a cappella
• A bicentennial bounty
  Smetana’s 200th is upon us and these 1940s recordings from George Szell are cherishable
• Unboxed
  This month’s round-up features a double helping of Charles Ives and some rather ravishing Ravel
• Books
  Our critics cast their eyes over the latest selection of books on all things music
• Audio choice
  Our audio expert Chris Haslam tests options for luxurious listening in private
• TV&Radio
  Your guide to what’s on BBC Radio 3 this month, plus TV highlights
• TV CHOICE
  Karl Jenkins: The Man Behind the Moustache
• Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
  Today, Vivaldi’s masterpiece is ubiquitous but, asks Nicholas Kenyon, has it enjoyed such popularity throughout its 300-year history?