PLAYING WITH PAGANINI

Francesca Dego performs with the virtuoso’s own violin

THE SOUNDS OF SPRING!

Dispel the wintry gloom with seasonal masterpieces

The world’s best-selling classical music magazine

The world’s best selling classical music magazine

Malcolm Arnold

Was the talented but tormented composer England’s Shostakovich?

Richard Morrison British music’s great hopes Sulamita Aronovsky The pianist on 1950s Moscow Ksenija Sidorova The accordionist’s musical loves

Full April listings inside

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Also in this issue! The birds and beasts

of classical music The best recordings

of Dvorˇák’s Eighth Nathalie Stutzmann

Reynaldo Hahn Renaud Capuçon and much more…

100 reviews by the world’s finest critics CDs, DVDs & books – see p62