BBC Music Magazine

BBC Music Magazine is a must for anyone with a passion for classical music. Classical music connoisseurs and new enthusiast alike will enjoy the fascinating features and reviews of over 120 new works in every issue.

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The full score • Our pick of the month’s news, views and interviews

Conductor bins baton as vocal appeal proves too strong

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS

SoundBites

RisingStars • Three to look out for…

Marian Anderson sings for equality in Washington

Also in April 1939…

Brian Field • Award-winning American composer Brian Field studied at Juilliard with Milton Babbitt and has gone on to enjoy an eclectic career. His lyrical three-movement environmental suite Three Passions for Our Tortured Planet has been recorded by pianist Kay Kyung Eun Kim and was released on the Steinway & Sons label earlier this year.

Music to my ears • The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites…

REWIND • Great artists talk about their past recordings

My Hero

Lights, camera… notes!

FAREWELL TO…

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN • Pick a theme… and name your seven favourite examples

RPS Music Awards 2024 • Rebecca Franks meets Instrumentalist winner Jasdeep Singh Degun, who is shining a light on Indian Classical music

And the winners are… • This year’s Royal Philharmonic Society Awards recipients

Richard Morrison • The ability to recognise creative genius is of fundamental value

MUSIC MALICE & MURDER • ‘Everything you’ve heard is true,’ proclaimed the posters for Miloš Forman’s Amadeus – a cinematic tale of genius and envy, based on Peter Shaffer’s acclaimed stage play about Mozart and Salieri’s bitter rivalry. Forty years on, Charlotte Smith looks back at a very special production

Salieri speaks… • Abraham on the role of a lifetime

A vengeful plot • Seven key scenes from the film

Larger than life • Before Miloš Forman’s Amadeus came Peter Shaffer’s theatrical take on Mozart and Salieri, staged in 1979 at London’s National Theatre. James Inverne lifts the curtain…

A formative role • Simon Callow on playing Mozart

A Marriner’s tale • This month marks 100 years since the birth of Sir Neville Marriner, legendary founder and director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Michael White speaks to those who knew him best

Karl Jenkins

Tours de force • What secrets lurk behind the stages of the world’s great concert halls? To find out, Brian Wise takes backstage tours of five leading venues in London and New York

A cast of thousands • From its unlikely conception in a pub, The Really Big Chorus has become a cultural phenomenon, offering amateur singers the opportunity to take part in vast performances, writes Andrew Green

Aix-en-Provence France • Rebecca Franks breathes in the spring air in the popular southern city, where the music making sparkles and the sun always shines

Composer of the month Antonio Salieri • Forget the hate-filled murderer of Mozart, says Alexandra Wilson; the real Salieri was an opera composer of considerable standing

SALIERI Life & Times

Building a library Felix Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor • Jo Talbot celebrates the ‘Mozart of the 19th century’ as she searches out the finest recordings of this masterful work for piano, violin and cello

A mastery of melody and mood

Continue the journey… • Five works to explore after Mendelssohn’s...