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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Godfather music: why was Nino Rota's score disqualified from the 1972 Oscars? Get ready for a trip in the TARDIS on Christmas Eve! The Doctor Who Prom is on TV ...

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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 ...

Fiona Maddocks was the founding editor of BBC Music Magazine and is now the classical music critic for The Observer. She has also held the role of chief arts feature writer for the London Evening ...

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