How is the classical music world changing? Looking back on a dizzying year, we pay particular attention to performers’ international connectedness. Documenting more than 30,000 events, Bachtrack’s statistics provide valuable insight into an unstable world.
From Buxtehude, Bach and Handel, to contemporary composer Liza Lim, we take a tour of the myriad forms of composers’ handwriting and calligraphy – and how music makes itself on the page.
A century after its founding in 1926, former members of Ballet Rambert recall the joys and challenges of working directly with Dame Marie Rambert, one of the trailblazers of British ballet.
What do you buy for the culture lover in your life who seems to have everything? Here are some music and dance-related gifts that Bachtrack staff are giving or hoping to receive for Christmas this year.
The great ballerinas of the 19th century were perhaps the first modern celebrities. Rather than bare all, their images cultivated a mysterious, supernatural aura that made them seem unattainable.
Katy Hamilton is a freelance researcher, writer and presenter on music. She has taught at the Royal College of Music and the Universities of Nottingham and Middlesex, and is a regular presenter and writer of programme notes and concert introductions. Her research specialism is the music of Johannes Brahms and his contemporaries, and she has also been involved in projects on history of the Edinburgh Festival, the role of émigré musicians in post-1945 British musical life, the songs of Schubert, and concert programming at the Wigmore Hall. More information is available on her website, here
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