In this month's podcast, we announce the winners of this year's BBC Music Magazine Awards and listen to a track from our Recording of the Year. Plus, we discuss the enduring relationship between two artistic forms: classical music and fashion.
We also look back on the recent highlights of musicians innovating during the lockdown period while they're not able to work in the usual way. These include mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston's new cookbook: Notes from Musicians' Kitchens, and the English National Opera's plans for drive-in opera at Alexandra Palace.
We also discuss the handful of orchestras and concert halls that are offering concert tickets to NHS workers following the lockdown. As usual, we've each brought along a recording we've been enjoying, including a violin arrangement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto and José Serebrier's Flute Concerto.
THE MAGAZINE BBC Music Magazine Awards Recording of the Year: Purcell: King Arthur Anna Dennis, Mhairi Lawson, Rowan Pierce, Carolyn Sampson (sopranos), Jeremy Budd (high tenor), James Way (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone) Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh Signum SIGCD589
Recording of the Month: Debussy & Rameau Víkingur Ólafsson (piano) DG 4837701
FIRST LISTEN Freya's choice: José Serebrier: Flute Concerto Sharon Bezaly (flute), Australian Chamber Orchestra/Richard Tognetti BIS BIS2423
Oliver's choice: Beethoven: Piano Concertos Part 2 Inon Barnatan (piano), Academy of St Martin in the Fields Pentatone PTC5186824
Freya ParrDigital Editor and Staff Writer, BBC Music Magazine
Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's Digital Editor and Staff Writer. She has also written for titles including the Guardian, Circus Journal, Frankie and Suitcase Magazine, and runs The Noiseletter, a fortnightly arts and culture publication. Freya's main areas of interest and research lie in 20th-century and contemporary music.
