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El padre de la música checa, Bedřich Smetana, nació hace 200 años. Celebramos su bicentenario repasando sus obras, desde la popular Má vlast hasta la música para piano menos escuchada.

Los logros de Beethoven fueron inmensos; compuso el ciclo sinfónico más importante de todos los tiempos, así como cuartetos de cuerda, sonatas para piano y conciertos, y todos ellos rompieron moldes.

Un recorrido por Britten, celebrando las mejores obras del compositor que lanzó el renacimiento operístico inglés.

"Deme la lista de la lavandería y le pondré música". Rossini tenía mucha facilidad para componer. Escribió unas 40 óperas en tan sólo 17 años... pero de repente, paró. Disfrute de nuestra selección de sus diez mejores.

Niño prodigio, viajero entusiasta, adalid de Bach: Felix Mendelssohn compuso mucha música en su corta vida, música que rebosa frescura y vitalidad.

Mark Pullinger celebra a este compositor inglés por excelencia con una lista de las obras más inspiradoras de RVW.

De niño prodigio a ser considerado como un conservador adusto, Camille Saint-Saëns vivió más de ocho décadas. Disfruta nuestra selección musical de sus mejores obras… y algunas sorpresas.

Tchaikovsky podía hilar melodías como pocos y fue, sin duda, uno de los compositores mas versátiles.

Brahms se desahoga en cada una de sus composiciones y lleva al oyente a un viaje emocional inolvidable

La exigencia de distancia social ha hecho que muchas orquestas se hayan replanteado el repertorio que programan durante el confinamiento. Mostramos aquí las obras más programadas durante el periodo de streamings de la pandemia.

No, no es una playlist de los grandes éxitos de Ludwig, sino una muestra de los rincones más oscuros del catálogo de Beethoven, incuyendo algunas "obras sin opus"…

El origen de la composición del ciclo de canciones de Berlioz con un análisis musical y una playlist

Prepárate un buen chocolate caliente y disponte para una Navidad operística algo kitsch

Hemos elaborado esta lista de compositores en activo de varias generaciones, algunos han creado escuela y otros tienen un estilo más personal, pero en todos los casos son compositores comprometidos con la creación y el pensamiento musical del momento.

Os presentamos una lista con los 10 mejores conciertos para clarinete según nuestros clarinetistas preferidos, Elisabeth y Mark. Esperamos que disfrutes de ella.

El 23 de abril de 2016 se celebra el 400 aniversario de la muerte del Bardo. Hemos confeccionado para la ocasión una playlist con nuestras piezas favoritas inspiradas en las palabras de Shakespeare

Celebramos el cumpleaños de Claudio Monteverdi. Disfruta de un recorrido por la vida musical de este compositor revolucionario!

"Seis pies y medio de melancolía rusa" solía bromear Igor Stranvinsky sobre su compatriota Sergei Rachmaninov. Os presentamos una playlist de algunas de las obras más conocidas junto a algunas rarezas.

Béla Bartók nació tal día como hoy en 1881. Para celebrarlo, hemos elaborado esta playlist de favoritos de Bachtrack. Esperamos que la disfrute.

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. 

From Henry Purcell to George Benjamin, a set of ten operas to demonstrate that English is not just a language for prose and poetry, but also a vibrant language for opera.

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. 

Gabriel Fauré is often obscured by the twin shadows of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, but his “pure music”, especially the luminous, sublime late music with its daring harmonic progressions, still has the power to astonish. 

Giuseppe Verdi was more than just an opera composer. He became a political figurehead. Our playlist includes nine of his most famous operas and his Requiem, described as “an opera in ecclesiastical garb”. 

Gustav Holst is famous for his astrological orchestral suite The Planets, but there’s more to discover in his eclectic catalogue, particularly inspired by his interests in travel and Hindu literature. 

Who's afraid of Arnold Schoenberg? His music was met with great hostility from critics and audiences, but his revolutionary “serial” method became the foundation for musical modernism in the 20th century.

Johannes Brahms was a big supporter of Antonín Dvořák and justly so, for the Czech master, who made it big in America, composed music full of bucolic good humour and Romantic richness. 

“Cathedrals in sound” or “symphonic boa constrictors”? Bruckner composed eleven symphonies, but how many make our top ten playlist? 

Der Trompeter Simon Höfele ist einer der besten jungen Musiker aus Deutschland. Für Bachtrack stellt er zehn seiner Lieblingswerke für Trompete vor, mit dem einen oder anderen weniger bekannten Namen...

Janáček was heavily influenced by folk music and speech inflections of his native Moravia. The vast majority of his greatest works come from his final decade, inspired by his infatuation with Kamila Stösslová.

Anneleen Lenaerts, Soloharfenistin der Wiener Philharmoniker, ist die Gastkuratorin für unsere Harfen-Playlist.

Bohuslav Martinů was a true cosmopolitan: Czech, but spending much of his life in France and the United States, writing in an eclectic style that drew on many influences. 

If Mozart and Beethoven are the Son and the Holy Ghost of classical music’s Holy Trinity, it is surely Johann Sebastian Bach who is the Father. 

George Frideric Handel was quite the cosmopolitan composer, travelling from Germany to Italy and London, where he eventually settled, becoming a naturalised British citizen and court composer for the big ceremonial occasions. 

Dubbed “half monk, half rascal”, Francis Poulenc was a complex composer, his music ranging from witty vaudeville to choral music of religious fervour. 

Maria Callas was the most iconic soprano of the 20th century. We mark her centenary by looking at ten of her most important roles.

Conformist or closet dissident? Dmitri Shostakovich had to adapt, chameleon-like, to the changing political climate in the Soviet Union, toeing the party line where necessary, but planting his music with coded messages.

His symphonies are now mainstays of orchestra seasons, but during his lifetime Gustav Mahler was more famous as a rigorous conductor, his music misunderstood and scorned. 

Quintessentially English or establishment outsider? Elgar was seen as provincial – and was never more at home than in his beloved Malvern Hills – but he had a European outlook.

Born 100 years ago, the music of Hungarian composer György Ligeti is varied and multiplicitous, displaying a voracious curiosity and a multifaceted imagination.

Drawing on the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art), Wagner is best remembered for his extraordinary music dramas, not least the monumental, 15-hour Ring cycle.

“I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.” Prokofiev was one of the most important Russian composers, writing in a variety of forms and happy to challenge conventions. 

Possibly the greatest pianist of the 20th century and one of its greatest composers too, Sergei Rachmaninov left a relatively small catalogue – only 45 published works – yet many of them appear frequently in concert programmes. 

A playlist presenting a multiplicity of musics from eight women composers from around the world, with premieres in 2023.

“I've written only one masterpiece. Unfortunately it has no music in it.” To which work was the self-critical Maurice Ravel referring and where does it come in our playlist of the dapper Frenchman’s top ten?

Composer of some 500 concertos and around 90 operas, there's much more to the “Red Priest”, Antonio Vivaldi, than the ubiquitous Four Seasons. 

Many of Schubert's “late” masterpieces – he died aged only 31 – are included in our editor’s selection of his top ten works. 

How to select a top ten from over 600 works by one of the world's greatest composers? An impossible task...

Giacomo Puccini knew how to pull the heartstrings in his music. He made his soprano characters suffer... but also composed some of his best music for them. 

Exploring choral selections from Sweden, Chile, Russia, Ukraine, Canada, Dominica and Nigeria, to bring a variety of festive splendour to the end of this year.