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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Which classical musicians should be the stars of Hollywood blockbusters?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...