In der aktuellen Ausgabe von BBC Music

• Record price for a violin shattered
  ‘Baron Knoop’ Stradivari sells for $23m to private buyer
• THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Pick a theme… and name your seven favourite examples
  Pianist Yevgeny Sudbin chooses the most gleefully ghoulish pieces inspired by death and mysticism
• Richard Morrison
  From frontline action to opera: my father’s musical memories of WWII
• KEEP CALM AND COMPOSE
  British composers played a vital role in lifting spirits in World War II, sometimes in unlikely ways. Rob Ainsley tells how they played their part with symphonies, film scores… and jam
• The sound of oppression
  In wartime Germany and its occupied countries, music was a carefully controlled part of the Nazi propaganda machine, as Erik Levi explains
• A different picture
  There’s more to Dame Myra Hess than her moraleboosting National Gallery concerts – not least her formidable piano skills, writes Jessica Duchen
• A voice for the ages
  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s consummate artistry enthralled all who heard him sing. Andrew Green marks 100 years of the celebrated German baritone
• Pieces of me
  Cellist Matthew Barley’s Light Stories project has helped him to work through trauma dating back to a psychotic event in his teens, as he tells
• Man on a mission
  For American composer Carlos Simon, highlighting injustice and racism through his art is a personal calling, as he tells Clive Paget
• Sound advice
  Canada’s National Arts Centre is serious about education – and its flagship Orchestra is training the next crop of top musicians, writes Charlotte Smith
• Prague Czechia
  Claire Jackson visits the vibrant home of not one, but two leading Czech composers, each honoured with his own prestigious festival
• Jean Sibelius
  Can we judge a composer’s character from their music? With Sibelius, says Stephen Johnson, this would not necessarily appear to be the case
• Ralph Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem
  Rebecca Franks explores a composer’s choral plea for peace, written as the dark cloud of fascism moved ominously over a nervous Europe
• RECORDING OF THE MONTH A real rollercoaster of musical emotions
  Erik Levi goes on a thrilling ride thanks to the Jerusalem Quartet’s winning survey of three of Shostakovich’s mighty quartets
• A memorable and moving Arabella
  David Nice is highly enthralled by this Berlin staging of Strauss’s colourful opera
• A glorious Easter selection from the brilliant Bevans
  Alexandra Wilson finds much to enjoy in this family album of beautiful music for Lent and Passiontide
• Magical Dvořák crowns this pair of piano quintets
  Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin are on sublime form in contrasting works, says Jan Smaczny
• Unrivalled Ravel in this clever tribute
  Nicholas Kenyon enjoys Bertrand Chamayou’s vision and gripping performance
• Passion and poignance
  Jacqueline du Pré’s concerto recordings have been remastered and sound better than ever
• Audio
  Our expert Chris Haslam gives advice on buying the latest hi-fi equipment