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What are the lyrics to 'South Australia', the traditional sea shanty?

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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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

If the idea of a concerto for double bass and orchestra sounds unappealing, not to say implausible, that is to reckon without the imaginative talents of the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara. His ...

Nick Shave is a writer and sub-editor for the Guardian, and has written for BBC Music Magazine on topics including video game scores and composers and artists such as Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Keith ...