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Salieri Speaks…
Before winning the part of Salieri, I had never played an instrument, though I liked music very much. I had been contracted to do the movie Scarface before my involvement in Amadeus, so I was shooting both films at the same time. I was flying from Pr
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Unboxed
Paavo Berglund’s first Sibelius symphony cycle, recorded with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra across the 1970s, is recognised as one of the greats. Effortlessly at home in the music of his compatriot, Berglund went on to record two further cycles,
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This Month’s Contributors
Writer, editor and playwright ‘Ever since learning the role of Salieri for an aborted university production of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, I’ve loved the greatest play ever written about music, so it was a joy to explore its creation in this issue.’ Pag

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