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Bachtrack@bachtrack
Mar 23
Changes to Bachtrack.com From today, 26th March, we have made a small but important change to Bachtrack: we are asking readers to register for free to read certain parts of our site. Full explanation of what is changing and why: bachtrack.com/bachtrack-regi…
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Tumultuous Mahler 2 season finale from the @BBCPhilharmonic ✍️ Rohan Shotton bachtrack.com/review-storgar…

Tumultuous Mahler 2 season finale from the BBC Philharmonic

John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic and CBSO Chorus in Mahler's mighty Resurrection Symphony. 

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Dame Imogen Cooper bows out with Mozart at the @glasshouseicm ✍️ Nick Butters bachtrack.com/review-sousa-c…

Dame Imogen Cooper bows out with Mozart at The Glasshouse

Dame Imogen Cooper’s valedictory concerto performance was affectionately received by a near capacity audience at The Glasshouse. 

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Collegium Musicum: great entertainment from the Bach Akademie Australia ✍️ Sandra Bowdler bachtrack.com/review-collegi…

Great entertainment from the Bach Akademie Australia

The Bach Akademie Australia celebrates the Leipzig Collegium Musicum of the Baroque era with an entertaining concert of familiar works and rarities, including the outright "silly" concerto of...

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Russian fairy tales: Boreyko and Hornung make impressive @sydsymph debuts ✍️ Zoltán Szabó bachtrack.com/review-boreyko…

Andrey Boreyko and Maximilian Hornung make Sydney Symphony debuts

An unusual combination of 20th-century Russian masterworks herald debut appearances by both conductor and soloist in Sydney.

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National Dance Awards 2025 winners celebrated in London bachtrack.com/news-national-…
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Kingʼs Birthday Honours awarded to musicians and dancers bachtrack.com/news-kings-bir…

Musicians and dancers receive Kingʼs Birthday Honours

The honours system recognises people who have made achievements in public life and committed themselves to serving and helping Britain.

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L'Orfeo, the world's first great opera, premieres at @glyndebourne ✍️ Roy Westbrook bachtrack.com/review-monteve…

L'Orfeo, the world's first great opera, premieres at Glyndebourne

One element of the Orpheus myth is about creativity, so at Glyndebourne, William Kentridge sets Monteverdi's opera in an artist's studio, 

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A thrilling Slavic Iolanta from Chișinău to open the Bucharest Opera Festival ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-iolanta…

A thrilling Slavic Iolanta from Chișinău

Young voices shine in Tchaikovsky's last opera in a new and rustic updating by Moldovan director Slava Sambriș. 

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Glenn Branca’s Hallucination City: the glory and fury of 100 electric guitars at @LincolnCenter #SummerForTheCity ✍️ Kurt Gottschalk bachtrack.com/review-branca-…

Branca’s Hallucination City: 100 electric guitars at Lincoln Center

The plugged-in six-string is the sound of New York City and Branca’s Symphony no. 13 (Hallucination City) for 100 guitars and drums is revived at Lincoln Center. 

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Total immersion: Aldeburgh Festival dives in at the deep end with Pelléas and Mélisande in a semi-staging by Rory Kinnear ✍️ Eleanor Knight bachtrack.com/review-pelleas…

Aldeburgh Festival dives in at the deep end with Pelléas and Mélisande

Rory Kinnear directs a minimally semi-staged performance of Debussy's problematic opera at Snape Maltings, but Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish SO provide the detail. 

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Anna Geniushene impresses Singapore audience with early Chopin and Brahms ✍️ Chang Tou Liang bachtrack.com/review-anna-ge…

Anna Geniushene impresses Singapore in early Chopin and Brahms

Anna Geniushene makes a welcome Singapore return, demonstrating that knows exactly what she is all about.

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Lise Davidsen's exquisite Schubert Lieder at the Aldeburgh Festival ✍️ Eleanor Knight bachtrack.com/review-lise-da…

Lise Davidsen's exquisite Schubert Lieder at the Aldeburgh Festival

The Norwegian soprano impresses in a Lieder programme that proves the highlight of the Aldeburgh Festival’s opening weekend. 

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Darkness without passion: Damiano Michieletto’s Carmen arrives at La Scala ✍️ Laura Servidei bachtrack.com/review-carmen-…

Darkness without passion: Damiano Michieletto’s Carmen at La Scala

Despite Michieletto's visual gloom, the evening is redeemed by Myung-whun Chung’s masterful conducting and a cast that brings conviction to a production that rarely trusts the opera’s own dramatic...

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Joy unbounded: Beethoven 9 ends the @RSNO’s season with blockbuster flair ✍️ Simon Thompson bachtrack.com/review-hahn-be…

Beethoven 9 ends the RSNO’s season with blockbuster flair

The wider RSNO family give their all in a blockbuster Beethoven Ninth Symphony to end their season.

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Monteverdi and Ulisse return happily to @GarsingtonOpera ✍️ David Karlin bachtrack.com/review-monteve…

Monteverdi and Ulisse return happily to Garsington Opera

Laurence Cummings and John Caird’s second Garsington exploration of the operas of Monteverdi brims with wonderfully playing and singing in an attractive setting.

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A tale of one city: Franz Welser-Möst celebrates Vienna with the @BerlinPhil ✍️ Elena Luporini bachtrack.com/review-welser-…

A tale of one city: Franz Welser-Möst celebrates Vienna in Berlin

At the Berlin Philharmonie, Franz Welser-Möst guides the audience through two centuries of Viennese music, including the German premiere of Bernd Deutsch's Intensity.

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Heartbreak in real time: Corinne Winters on Jenůfa @corinnesoprano bachtrack.com/about-a-work-j…

Heartbreak in real time: Corinne Winters on Jenůfa

The leading US soprano talks about her experiences singing one of opera’s most devastating roles, which she takes to Brno this autumn.

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“I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.” Richard Strauss was born OTD in 1864. Here are ten of my favourites, all first-rate: bachtrack.com/playlist-top-t…

Bachtrack top ten: Richard Strauss

From the early succès de scandale of Salome to a golden Indian summer, Richard Strauss’ long career spanned eight decades. Enjoy some highlights in our playlist. 

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Petr Popelka named next Bayerischer Staatsoper Generalmusikdirektor bachtrack.com/news-bavarian-…

Petr Popelka named next Generalmusikdirektor in Bavaria

The role of Generalmusikdirektor includes leading both the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Staatsorchester.

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The crisis facing US classical music Doug McLennan talks about the multiple crises facing orchestras and arts organisations in the United States, amid the damage wrought by the second Trump administration. bachtrack.com/interview-doug…

The crisis facing US classical music: Douglas McLennan

Longtime music journalist and founder of ArtsJournal talks about the multiple crises facing orchestras and arts organisations in the United States, amid the damage wrought by the second Trump...

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