In the April 2024 issue of BBC Music Magazine, we're celebrating the 40th birthday of the greatest classical music film ever made: Amadeus. We look at this cinematic phenomenon, talking to some of the people involved in the production, and reflect on the film's origins as a West End play.
Also this issue, we remember the great conductor Neville Marriner on the 100th anniversary of his birth, and Brian Wise goes behind the scenes of our world's greatest concert halls in a series of backstage tours open to the public. Plus, we visit the Really Big Chorus, a cultural phenomenon offering amateur singers the opportunity to take part in vast performances.
On your cover CD this month are works by Mozart and Salieri: the duelling composers at the centre of Amadeus, and our Composer of the Month is Antonio Salieri himself. In this month's BBC Music Magazine Interview, Amanda Holloway sits down with the endlessly popular composer Karl Jenkins. In our Building a Library this month, we explore Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1 and name it best recordings.
Click here to access the inlay for this month's cover CD.
