BBC Music May 2024

The 2024 BBC Music Magazine Awards are writ large in this issue, in fact. We've got interviews with the winners across all nine categories, including violinist Bomsori Kim (for her part in an incredible album of concertos by Nielsen), guitarist Sean Shibe (whose album Profesión won our Instrumental Award), and countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, winner of the Vocal Award for Beyond, his album of early Baroque Italian cantatas, songs and opera extracts.

We've also got a big interview with organist, conductor and social media sensation Anna Lapwood, whose energetic and effervescent championing of classical music (and of her instrument in particular) made her an easy choice for our Personality of the Year.

Elsewhere this issue, composer Anna Clyne tells Claire Jackson about the joys of bringing together the worlds of music and art, while for this month's Building a Library Terry Blain enjoys the triptych of snapshots that is Charles Ives's Three Places in New England.