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Bachtrack@bachtrackMar 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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Compelling Rachmaninov from Karina Canellakis in Pittsburgh Symphony debut @pghsymphony ✍️ Sam Jacobson bachtrack.com/review-canella…

Compelling Rachmaninov from Karina Canellakis with Pittsburgh Symphony

Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances brings colorful, compelling playing as Karina Canellakis makes her Pittsburgh Symphony debut in a program of strikingly varied musical styles.

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Bachtrack@bachtrack12h

4.48 Psychosis: Philip Venables’ visceral operatic expression of Sarah Kane’s final work revived ✍️ Nick Boston bachtrack.com/review-4-48-ps…

Venables’ 4.48 Psychosis revived by The Royal Opera

A strong cast led by Jacquelyn Stucker revive Philip Venables’ convincing operatic take on playwright Sarah Kane's final testament.

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Ludovic Morlot brings renewal to Seattle in spring-inspired program @seattlesymphony ✍️ Erica Miner bachtrack.com/review-morlot-…

Morlot brings renewal to Seattle in spring-inspired program

A conductor's fascination with the spring-themed works of two contemporary composers leads back in time to the Spring Symphony of Robert Schumann.

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Bachtrack@bachtrack14h

Salvation, damnation and circus magic: Gounod’s Faust at the @teatroallascala ✍️ Laura Servidei bachtrack.com/review-faust-e…

Salvation, damnation and circus magic: Teatro alla Scala’s new Faust

The Teatro alla Scala closes its season with a visually audacious new production of Faust, directed by Johannes Erath, and driven by Daniele Rustioni’s fiery conducting.

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Bachtrack@bachtrack15h

Nicholas Collon and The Hallé wander off the beaten track in Sheffield @the_halle ✍️ Phil Parker bachtrack.com/review-collon-…

Collon and The Hallé wander off the beaten track in Sheffield

Is his Third Symphony Rachmaninov’s most overlooked masterpiece? Nicholas Collon and the Hallé make the case for this brooding and elusive work at Sheffield City Hall.

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Bachtrack@bachtrack15h

Shabby little shocker: Suddenly Last Summer at Opera Philadelphia ✍️ Cameron Kelsall bachtrack.com/review-suddenl…

Shabby little shocker: Suddenly Last Summer at Opera Philadelphia

Courtney Bryan's adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Grand Guignol melodrama often feels like it's still searching for its musical voice.

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Bachtrack@bachtrack16h

Carnegie Hall celebrates Steve Reich at 90 @carnegiehall ✍️ David Wolfson bachtrack.com/review-steve-r…

Carnegie Hall celebrates Steve Reich at 90

The richness of Steve Reich’s music is on proud display at Carnegie Hall’s ‘Steve Reich at 90’ concert, featuring Ensemble Signal and the Bang on a Can All-Stars.

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Bachtrack@bachtrack18h

New Dimensions from @SCOmusic: Richter + Glass + Adams ✍️ David Smythe bachtrack.com/review-brophy-…

New Dimensions from SCO: Richter + Glass + Adams

David Brophy conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in works by Richter, Adams and Glass. Mari Samuelsen leads and directs in Richter’s Recomposed: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons.

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Bachtrack@bachtrack19h

Fire and substance: Yuja Wang, Petr Popelka and the @viennasymphony in the @Musikverein ✍️ Chanda VanderHart bachtrack.com/review-yuja-wa…

Fire and substance from Yuja Wang at the Musikverein

Yuja Wang tackles piano concertos by Bartók and Barber – plus three encores – to delight the Musikverein audience before the Wiener Symphoniker plays persuasive Schumann.

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Bachtrack@bachtrackOct 17

Mothers of Kherson world premiere issues an urgent call to action in Warsaw @Opera_Narodowa ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-kolomii…

Mothers of Kherson premiere issues an urgent call to action

A new Ukrainian opera brings tragedy and hope to the stage of the Polish National Opera in an outstanding world premiere.

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Bachtrack@bachtrackOct 25

Johann Strauss II was born OTD in 1825. Last year, for his bicentenary, Mark and Elisabeth gave us a guided tour of Strauss in Vienna: bachtrack.com/feature-johann…

Bachtrack top ten: Johann Strauss II in Vienna

Take a guided tour in 3/4 time through Vienna as Mark and Elisabeth visit some of the key Strauss locations in the city.

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Bachtrack@bachtrackOct 25

And here's their top ten Strauss playlist! bachtrack.com/playlist-top-t…

Bachtrack top ten: Johann Strauss II

Music ran through the veins of Johann Strauss II and – despite his father’s opposition – he went on to compose many of the greatest waltzes ever.

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Bachtrack@bachtrackOct 25

Georges Bizet was born OTD in 1838. Carmen, L'Arlesienne, the Symphony in C... but what else? Explore our top ten playlist and perhaps make a discovery or two! bachtrack.com/playlist-top-t…

Bachtrack top ten: Georges Bizet

If Georges Bizet had written only Carmen, he would still have earned his place in classical music’s Hall of Fame, yet there is much more to this composer who died tragically young.

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Bachtrack@bachtrackOct 24

Emilia Hoving impresses with Sibelius 6 with the RSNO ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-hoving-…

Pure cold water: Hoving conducts a very fine Sibelius 6 in Edinburgh

Emilia Hoving conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in the music of her leading countryman, after leader Maya Iwabuchi plays Brahms.

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Mark Pullinger@larkingrumpleOct 23

I approached David McVicar's new Turandot for @ScottishOpera with great expectations… but hardly expected to see Miss Havisham herself on stage! Review 👇 bachtrack.com/review-turando…

Great Expectations: McVicar directs a ghostly Scottish Opera Turandot

With Turandot in a Miss Havisham bridal gown, McVicar's new production sets the action in a setting of decadence and decay.

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Bachtrack@bachtrackOct 23

Great Expectations: McVicar directs a ghostly @ScottishOpera Turandot ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-turando…

Great Expectations: McVicar directs a ghostly Scottish Opera Turandot

With Turandot in a Miss Havisham bridal gown, McVicar's new production sets the action in a setting of decadence and decay.

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Bachtrack@bachtrackOct 22

MI5 files reveal composer Michael Tippett’s secret communist past bachtrack.com/news-michael-t…

MI5 files reveal composer Michael Tippett’s secret communist past

The newly released files, deposited at the National Archives, include letters intercepted by Special Branch, detailing of Tippett’s communist organising in the 1930s.

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Bachtrack@bachtrackOct 22

Konstantin Krimmel headlines a rewarding day of song in Oxford @OxfordSong ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-krimmel…

Konstantin Krimmel headlines a rewarding day of song in Oxford

The German-Romanian baritone and Ammiel Bushakevitz perform at the Oxford International Song Festival following recitals by Andrew Hamilton and Erika Baikoff.

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Bachtrack@bachtrackOct 21

Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo makes a spectacularly spooky world premiere at the @MetOpera ✍️ Susan Stempleski bachtrack.com/review-mazzoli…

Lincoln in the Bardo: a spectacularly spooky world premiere at the Met

George Saunders’ prize-winning novel moves from page to stage in Lileana Blain-Cruz’s genre-defying, visually breathtaking and surprisingly cheerful production of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s...

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Bachtrack@bachtrackOct 20

Thaddeus Strassberger directs a tough love Carmen in Los Angeles ✍️ Laurence Vittes bachtrack.com/review-carmen-…

Thaddeus Strassberger directs a tough love Carmen in Los Angeles

LA Opera’s new season opens with a new production of Bizet’s Carmen, conducted by new Music Director Domingo Hindoyan, but the spectacular effects detract from the drama.

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