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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Chris Haslam is an award-winning consumer technology journalist and writes audio content for BBC Music Magazine. As contributing editor for WIRED UK he specialises in audio, smart home, sustainability ...

Natasha Loges is the head of postgraduate programmes and professor of musicology at the Royal College of Music. She is a regular critic for BBC Music Magazine and broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 and BBC TV ...

Stephen Johnson is a critic and writer for BBC Music Magazine, with work also published in The Independent, The Guardian and Gramophone. He is a regular contributor on BBC Radio 3, 4 and the World ...

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 ...