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 ...

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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 ...

The Silesian Quartet deliver an outstanding survey of Górecki’s string quartets, says John Allison in his review ...

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

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 ...

Richard Morrison is the chief music critic and culture writer for The Times. He is also a columnist for BBC Music Magazine, for which he was awarded Columnist of the Year at the 2012 PPA Awards. In ...