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 ...

Jessica Duchen studied music at Cambridge University and was the classical music correspondent for The Independent from 2004 to 2016. She has also written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Scottish Opera conducted by Richard Egarr perform Sullivan's HMS Pinafore ...

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Star Wars music: ranking the nine film scores from worst to best Get ready for a trip in the TARDIS on Christmas Eve! The Doctor Who Prom is on 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 ...

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 ...

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