Last Night of the Proms 2026: all you need to know about one of the world's biggest and best classical music events

Dalia Stasevska: meet the Ukraine-born Finnish conductor leading the 2026 First Night of the Proms

Yunchan Lim: the superstar pianist who, at just 18, reduced a famous conductor to tears

First Night of the Proms 2026: your complete guide to this year's Proms opening concert

Elim Chan named San Francisco Symphony music director

Video: Timothy Ridout performs Franck's Violin Sonata arranged for viola

Mrs T: how divisive political titan Margaret Thatcher is set to become an opera icon

Out now: our June issue, featuring Timothy Ridout, music and food, a brand new Thatcher opera and more!

Making America: the BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrates 250 years of music in the USA

Michael Tilson Thomas: why a terminal cancer diagnosis won't stop me from conducting

Read more about all the 2026 BBC Music Magazine Award winners

BBC Proms 2026 listings: your day-by-day guide to the world's biggest classical music festival

Last chance to cast your vote

CDs are back! And these modern all-in-one CD players are the best way to listen to them

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BBC Get Singing launches throughout the UK

New Cliburn International Competition for Conductors announced

2026 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards shortlists announced

America’s contribution to the history of music is second to none

Semyon Bychkov named music director of Opéra national de Paris

Boos, hisses and rotten vegetables: opera’s worst behaved audiences

Far too many wonderful carols have faded into obscurity

John Rutter, the king of Christmas, reveals his 7 favourite carols

Jingle Hell! The famous Christmas music guaranteed to ruin the holiday season

Your guide to the best audio gifts this Christmas 2025

Peer Gynt: a guide to Edvard Grieg's popular masterpiece

Public voting opens for the RPS Inspiration Award 2026

The best headphones to help you listen while you work

What can musicians do to help tackle climate change?

Who was Ivor Novello? The Welsh songwriter and operetta composer who inspired The Ivors

Élisabeth Pion wins 2025 Honens International Piano Competition

Patricia Routledge: Hyacinth Bucket with the voice of an angel

How to programme the perfect concert

The 7 best symphonies by Joseph Haydn

Video exclusive: Brodsky Quartet performs Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15

Today at the BBC Proms: one of the most iconic beginnings in all of music

How to choose the best turntable for your budget in 2025 – from under £200 to £135,000

Today at the BBC Proms: the most remarkable musician you’ve (probably) never heard of

Today's spooky BBC Proms concert features a tribute to our greatest ghost story writer

Roger Norrington: quiet radical and pioneer of historically informed performance

BBC Proms 2025: 15 unmissable Proms, from Traitors to Arvo Pärt

Remembering the great pianist Alfred Brendel, who has died aged 94

90s nostalgia or just great sound? Why CD players are making a comeback

40 Years of EastEnders – Meet the composer behind one of British TV’s most familiar tunes

Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler: darling of the Nazis or secret opponent?

We celebrate musical theatre lyricists, so why don't we credit great opera librettists?

And the BAFTA goes to… Daniel Blumberg for The Brutalist

Out now: our January issue, featuring Angel Blue, Patricia Routledge, Mozart's mind and much more