BBC Music Magazine - April 2024

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Amadeus
In a nine-page special, Charlotte Smith celebrates the 40th birthday of the greatest classical music film ever made, and shares the memories of those involved.

A Marriner’s tale
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, conductor Neville Marriner is remembered by Michael White

A cast of thousands
Andrew Green sings a triumphant ‘Hallelujah!’ as the Really Big Chorus continues to raise the roof at 50..

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

10+ mins

Larger than life

Before Milos Forman’s Amadeus came Peter Shaffer’s theatrical take on Mozart and Salieri, staged in 1979 at London’s National Theatre. lifts the curtain...

6 mins

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

8 mins

Composing is like breathing. It's just something I do, like a hobby, really...or an addiction

The world's most performed classical composer, a small, black-suited figure with a mop of white hair and mutton-chop whiskers, stands on the huge Brucknerhaus stage, almost invisible among the sea of musicians.

7 mins

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

7 mins

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

8 mins

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

3 mins

Antonio Salieri

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

8 mins

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BBC Music Magazine is a monthly classical music magazine published by Immediate Media Company. It was first published in 1992 and is the best-selling classical music magazine in the world.

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