Tom Service is a familiar voice to BBC Radio 3 listeners, the station on which he has presented Music Matters since 2003 and his own programme The Listening Service, in which he breaks down how music ...

The tritone: the 'devil in music' that has injected mystery and unease into countless great works ...

Puccini's La bohème: the best recordings of this masterful opera ...

Find the lyrics to many of your favourite Christmas carols, from 'Silent Night' to 'Jingle Bells', 'Hark The Herald Angels' to 'The Holly and The Ivy' and discover the history of each carol 'We Wish ...

Michael Church has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor, and was one of the founding editors of the Independent on Sunday. He is a former television critic of The Times ...

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the ...

Nicola Benedetti on what it takes to win BBC Young Musician... and how to survive afterwards ...

Michael is the Reviews Editor of BBC Music Magazine. He looks after the 26 pages of recording and book reviews in the magazine each month, deciding what will be reviewed – no easy task with so much ...

Best Beethoven recordings of all time: 20 great moments in Beethoven recording history ...

'America The Beautiful': what are the lyrics to this patriotic US song?

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Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's digital editor and staff writer, editing and writing on all styles of music across both the website and print magazine. She has also written for titles including the ...