Review: Mahler – Symphony No. 5 (Tonhalle/Järvi) In his review, David Nice thinks there’s no better Mahler 5 than this full-throttle recording by Paavo Järvi and his Zurich orchestra who set a fine ...

Would you spend a million pounds on a hi-fi? What if it sounds like nothing you've ever experienced?

Musical keys: what they are, and what each one means in music ...

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 ...

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

The best recordings of Poulenc's Four Christmas Motets As Poulenc invites us to share in the magic of the nativity scene in four exquisitely crafted works for unaccompanied choir, Terry Blain selects ...

Richard Bratby a freelance writer based in Lichfield, Staffordshire, specialising in classical music. He is deputy music critic of The Birmingham Post, writes regularly for Gramophone and The ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Oliver Condy is the former editor of BBC Music Magazine, a post he held for 17 years. His debut book, Symphonies of the Soul: Classical Music to Cure Any Ailment, will be released in November 2021 ...