Our Christmas cowl star is the soprano Diana Damrau. The German chanteuse tells Rebecca Franks how she is celebrating the festive season: with a brand new recording that remembers the Christmas music of her Bavarian childhood.
Elsewhere within the journal, we give some thought to that all-important query: what’s the good music to get your self within the Christmas temper? Ten of our writers together with Stephen Johnson, Richard Morrison, Tom Service and Natasha Loges reveal the music that will get them feeling festive.
We’re off to the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland this problem. Jessica Duchen explores how Romantic composers had been impressed by the peaks and waterfalls of the Swiss Alps to wrote a number of the period’s most rousing and atmospheric music. And we additionally take a journey again in time, as Nicholas Kenyon appears on the historical past of early music broadcasting over the BBC’s 100 years on air.
Amongst our common options, Paul Riley selects the very best variations of Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur, whereas Clare Stevens salutes the choral brilliance of John Rutter, our Composer of the Month. And Andrew Nethsingha, quickly to take over as organist and choirmaster at Westminster Abbey, is that this month’s BBC Music Journal interviewee.
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