BBC Music July 2017

In our July issue, we celebrate the summer of spectacular music at the BBC Proms. Our full 2017 Proms listings are accompanied by special features on this year’s themes, including: 100 years of Finnish independence, a history of the Proms on TV and the centenary of legendary jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. Also inside our Proms special, James Naughtie interviews BBC Young Musician finalist Jess Gillam – a champion of the saxophone in the classical sphere, we discover the music that changed the life of wine writer Oz Clarke, and we chat to violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter about her past recordings. On your free cover CD is a classic BBC Proms performance of Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Semyon Bychkov.