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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 1h

An earthbound Missa Solemnis from the @bostonsymphony.bsky.social
✍️ Cameron Kelsall
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 1h

Asher Fisch leads a superb performance of Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony in Perth
✍️ Sandra Bowdler
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 1h

Canadian Opera Company's Orfeo ed Euridice returns elegant, restrained and very satisfying @canadianopera.bsky.social
✍️ John Gilks
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 3h

Ingrid Fliter's Chopin impresses at the London Piano Festival @kingsplacelondon.bsky.social
✍️ Roy Westbrook
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 4h

Antwerp Symphony opens Bruges season with magical Weber and exciting Schumann
✍️ Simon Thompson
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 23h

Ralph Vaughan Williams was born OTD in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire. We've a feast of articles on our site to enjoy: bachtrack.com/composer/vau...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 2d

In Prague, a sparkling season opener from Collegium 1704 🍾
✍️ Frank Kuznik
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 3d

Of tempests and northern stillness: Paavo Järvi at the Concertgebouw
✍️ Antonio D'Amato
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 3d

A tale of two Glorias: Poulenc and Vivaldi with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra @SCOmusic
✍️ Simon Thompson
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 3d

As it's Verdi's birthday, Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto shares his top ten Verdi bass arias: bachtrack.com/playlist-fer...

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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 3d

Buon compleanno, Giuseppe! 🥳 My top ten Verdi playlist... bachtrack.com/playlist-top...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 3d

Contrasting splendors at New York City Ballet: Robbins and Balanchine @nycballet.bsky.social
✍️ Carla Escoda
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 4d

Some enchanted evening: Rolando Villazón’s staging of La sonnambula charms The Met Opera
✍️ Susan Stempleski
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 4d

Franz-Welser Möst leads a profound Cleveland Orchestra pairing @clevelandorch.bsky.social
✍️ Sam Jacobson
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 4d

Camille Saint-Saëns was born OTD in 1835. The Carnival of the Animals features in our top ten playlist, of course, but there's so much more music to celebrate... including the first original score for a silent film!
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 5d

Consensus in sound: ICE plays Jennie C Jones at the Metropolitan Museum @metmuseum.org
✍️ Kurt Gottschalk
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 5d

Musical histories in transit: Andrew Arceci
✍️ Danny Riley
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 5d

A birthday retrospective in Boston: Andris Nelsons and the @bostonsymphony.bsky.social perform Debussy and Mahler
✍️ Kevin Wells
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 5d

Daniela Candillari makes her @chicagosymphony.bsky.social debut like it's her own living room
✍️ Graham Meyer
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 6d

Exploding fixed views of Pierre Boulez with the London Sinfonietta and Sir George Benjamin
✍️ Roy Westbrook
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Chie @chienakano.bsky.social · 6d

“…more akin to the contemporary gilded canvases of Klimt in a deliquescence of musical gesture, as notes inexorably [dissolve into] silence.”

I love reading reviews that feel as inspired – and as inspirational – as the performance itself! 💕
#Mahler9

Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 6d

Choose life: Oramo's Mahler 9 leaves death for the last page
✍️ Peter Quantrill
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 6d

Gustavo Dudamel drives the LA Phil like a Ferrari through Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
✍️ Matthew Richard Martines
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 6d

A meditative Estonian celebration of 90 years of Arvo Pärt
✍️ David Smythe
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 6d

Choose life: Oramo's Mahler 9 leaves death for the last page
✍️ Peter Quantrill
bachtrack.com/review-oramo...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 6d

A magnificent Tosca from Welsh National Opera at the Mayflower @welshnatopera.bsky.social
✍️ David Truslove
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