{"id":22298,"date":"2022-11-29T16:13:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/?p=176446"},"modified":"2022-11-29T17:10:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T16:10:36","slug":"christmas-2022","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/christmas-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Steve Wright\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 29 November 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Our Christmas cover star is the soprano Diana Damrau. The German chanteuse<\/em> tells Rebecca Franks<\/strong><\/a> how she is celebrating the festive season: with a new recording that recalls the Christmas music of her Bavarian childhood.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the magazine, we give some thought to that all-important question: what is the perfect music to get yourself in the Christmas mood? Ten of our writers including Stephen Johnson<\/strong><\/a>, Richard Morrison<\/strong><\/a>, Tom Service<\/strong><\/a> and Natasha Loges<\/strong><\/a> reveal the music that gets them feeling festive.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re off to the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland this issue. Jessica Duchen<\/strong><\/a> explores how Romantic composers\u00a0 were inspired by the peaks and waterfalls of the Swiss Alps to wrote some of the\u00a0 era\u2019s most rousing and atmospheric music. And we also take a journey back in time, as Nicholas Kenyon looks at the history of early music broadcasting over the BBC\u2019s 100 years on air.<\/p>\n

Among our regular features, Paul Riley<\/strong><\/a> selects the best versions of Messiaen\u2019s La Nativit\u00e9 du Seigneur<\/em>, while Clare Stevens salutes the choral brilliance of John Rutter, our Composer of the Month. And Andrew Nethsingha, soon to take over as organist and choirmaster at Westminster\u00a0 Abbey, is this month\u2019s BBC Music Magazine<\/em> interviewee.<\/p>\n