Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali is a performer in every sense of the word. He’s an acrobat on the podium, striking precarious balances and using his entire body to shape the sound. He wields ...

Roy Westbrook gained a diploma in music history at London University (Morley College) and was for some years the head of music day schools at Oxford University, where he also led music summer schools.

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At the Seoul Arts Center, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra achieves a luminous balance of historically informed insight and modern orchestral splendour, delivering performances that feel at once ...

The Proms Planner is a tool designed to make it easier and faster to buy BBC Proms tickets when they go on sale on the Royal Albert Hall website. It’s essentially a wishlist of the tickets you’d like ...

Although Franz Schubert died at the age of 31, he left behind a remarkably extensive oeuvre, including around 600 Lieder, sometimes composing as many as seven songs a day. Five of his Goethe settings ...

Superb Handelian singing and intense character acting light up Handel’s Semele, staged as a stark, uncompromising indictment of the rich and powerful.

In 1705, a 20-year-old Bach set off on a arduous, 400 km journey to Lübeck to hear the music of master organist Dietrich Buxtehude.

From electroacoustic experiments to bombastic timpani concertos, Norwegian composers produce some of the most interesting music on the contemporary scene.

Each January, Bachtrack publishes statistics for its listings for the year just ended. In 2014, we listed over 25,000 events cementing our position as the No.1 site for classical events. This enables ...

What changes did the classical music world see in 2024? Are existing trends continuing, or slowing? With more than 30,000 listings across 48 countries, Bachtrack offers a valuable snapshot into the ...

Natalia Osipova, a seasoned Tatiana, is joined by Lukas B Brændsrød, making his debut as Onegin in the summer return of John Cranko's take on Pushkin's classic verse novel.